Savings on truckload freight costs
In a time of rising truckload freight costs are savings out of the question?
Load optimization cuts costs
Our AutoO2 load optimization software cuts transportation costs by maximum legal and damage-free loading every shipment and decreasing the number of trucks needed. While transportation is the most significant part of the total supply chain costs, the industry has several critical issues: a labor and equipment shortage and diesel costs, among others. The most significant part of [...] Load building optimization software brings additional benefits
Load building software brings more benefits because of the situation in market, the lack of a labor force, and steady growth of diesel prices
Is Transportation coming back to “Normal?”
A few factors, affecting supply chain and transportation cost: inflation, oil production, war in Ukraine, and labor shortage.
More humping
While 2 unions are threatening a walkout this week, if there isn’t a stoppage, there will be more humping. Even if there is a stoppage, when they come back to work, there will be more humping. Before your mind goes in the wrong direction, humping is a way of sorting rail cars onto trains that […]
How technology is eliminating deployment volatility
LevelLoad and AutoO2 eliminate deployment (e.g. from plant to customer-facing distribution centers) volatility and hight cost freights
Freight rates on their way down?
The Cass freight index appears to show expenditures and Shipments tracking fairly closely. The same is not true for bulk ocean freight. The London-based Baltic Exchange index is a weighted average based on 11-20 international ship routes and three commodities – coal, iron ore, and grain that measures the spot market for ocean shipping. Capesize […]
Eliminating deployment volatility saves transportation costs
No one deliberately picks the wrong carrier for a shipment… often we are forced into it because the preferred carrier doesn’t have the available equipment to cover the spike in demand or there has been insufficient lead-time provided. The impact of this can be alarming: There is a solution: The Transportation Planning suite created by […]
Avoid high-cost carriers: Why you need Transportation Planning
Transportation Planning provides an incredible competitive edge.
Obvious yes— but it still hurts
American Transportation Research reports trucking operating costs = $1.855 per mile, a 12.7% year-over-year increase only slightly offset by a 14.8% decrease in deadhead mileage Trucking companies hired about 73,000 new workers in the 12 months ended in July. In a time of shortage, how did they do that? Econ 101 says — “simply […]