DAT Solutions

JANUARY 31, 2019

What can shippers do to make their freight attractive to carriers? Three shippers answered that question during a panel discussion at the 2018 DAT User Conference in Portland, OR. – David Domencic, Senior Manager of Transportation Procurement, Armada Supply Chain Solutions. Here's what they had to say.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 31, 2019

What can shippers do to make their freight attractive to carriers? Three shippers answered that question during a panel discussion at the 2018 DAT User Conference in Portland, OR. – David Domencic, Senior Manager of Transportation Procurement, Armada Supply Chain Solutions. Here's what they had to say.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JULY 29, 2018

This is where it gets tricky, according to Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. UPS has tested this model in Portland, Pittsburg and Ft. Sustainable transportation is a key component of future development of many cities. “As Last-Mile Delivery. In the U.S., Lauderdale.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more. Content Summary: Personal Mover Transports Employees around BMW Plant. UPS’ eBike electric bike program, activated in Portland, Ore., Moving around a large factory can be exhausting.

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Unleashed

MAY 19, 2020

How many due to transport issues? Unleashed lets you add these additional costs (such as freight and duty) for each purchase order during the receipting process. Read our Q&A with specialist craft beer advisor Maria Pearman , a Certified Public Accountant based in Portland, Oregon – the home of craft beer. Customer service.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 10, 2015

The transportation sector of the logistics industry grew by 3.6 As a result, the link between the cost of crude oil, gas prices, and consumer spending comes back to the forefront of the transportation industry. Unfortunately, others have seen container traffic come to a dead halt, as was the case in Portland, Oregon.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 4, 2022

From contractor controversies to rising fuel costs, logistics professionals across the transportation industry are turning to innovative solutions to persistent problems. According to reporting from Transportation Topics, the contract “ would give the aircraft mechanics a 3.3%

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Freight Waves

JULY 11, 2025

Portland, Maine—The presence of AIFleet founder and CEO Marc El Khoury at a showcase of entrepreneurs and startups here, sponsored by payments provider and freight tech investor WEX, seemed slightly out of place. And here was El Khoury talking about trucks that for the foreseeable future are running almost totally on diesel.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 4, 2025

Short line Cumberland & Knox made its debut last weekend, running its first train over a 56-mile, state-owned former Maine Central branch that hadn’t seen any freight action at all in eight months. The cars were switched to the previously shuttered Dragon Cement plant at nearby Thomaston, Maine, on Sunday.

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Freight Waves

JULY 15, 2025

Portland, Maine–It was difficult at times, in listening to a panel discussion on fleet electrification at a WEX-sponsored forum here, to remember it was taking place against a backdrop of Washington eliminating various subsidies and incentives designed to reorient transportation toward electrons and away from petroleum molecules.

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DAT Solutions

APRIL 17, 2018

When Jim Syfan, CEO of Syfan Logistics , first started working in the freight brokerage business in the 1970s, there were no load boards, no desktop computers, no internet. One of Syfan's customers frequently shipped to Portland, Oregon. "I The desktop transportation terminal. A new kind of load board.

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DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Yet the freight surges that many of us have been accustomed to seeing at this time have been noticeably absent. For multiple reasons, spot market freight volumes and rates have been trending down for most of 2015 -- van rates since March, and flatbed and reefer rates since June. PMI Sectors Produce More Freight Than NMI Counterparts.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 2, 2017

A load board is an on-demand freight exchange used by shippers, freight brokers, motor carriers, and other logistics companies to find freight and trucks. Freight brokers and shippers use load boards to advertise freight that needs to be moved by posting where the load is and where it’s going.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In a year where capacity has been historically tight, building out carrier networks has been particularly difficult for freight brokers. Burroughs said CARB is now defining a California-based broker as a business that arranges transportation within California no matter where their business is domiciled. Sanitary Transportation of Food.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Speaking to freight brokers at the DAT User Conference in Portland, OR, Lewis said that increased awareness of the problem has helped to combat theft, and due diligence by brokers plays a role. He has 20 years of experience in transportation logistics, and is also a former law-enforcement officer and detective.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 17, 2018

Shippers are asking, “How much longer will this challenging freight environment last?” Also, the volumes of spot freight movements have been flat in the top 100 van lanes, year over year. Mark will share his insights on "Capacity, Rates and the New Normal" at the DAT User Conference, September 24-26 in Portland, Oregon.

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DAT Solutions

MAY 10, 2016

Rob LaForte, owner of Columbia Fresh Transportation Services, says his transportation management software (TMS) will be a great help in storing and retrieving the documentation required by the new FDA food safety rule. The new rule defines brokers as shippers, making them equally responsible for ensuring food safety during transport.

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DAT Solutions

MAY 9, 2017

Rob LaForte, owner of Columbia Fresh Transportation Services. In late December he had planned to close his freight brokerage for a few days so he and his employees could celebrate the holidays. The conference was held in Portland, Oregon, a short distance from his brokerage, Columbia Fresh Transportation Services. "At

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 13, 2018

He liquidated the business in 1991, and in 1997 he and two other partners started another trucking company, Hiawatha Transport, which they later sold. Rather than retire, in 2010 Schultz accepted a job in the transportation division of Ashley Furniture, the world's largest furniture maker, based in Arcadia, Minnesota.

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DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

So we asked Carl Johnson, President of Pac West Transport Services , a freight brokerage located in Portland, Oregon. Pac West specializes in temperature-sensitive freight, and started brokering Christmas trees shortly after the company was founded 32 years ago. Carl Johnson, Pac West Transport. We wondered.

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