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The relationship between shippers and carriers is more important than ever. As transportation markets remain volatile and supply chain demands grow more dynamic, success increasingly depends on [...]

Analysts expect trucking rates and volumes to improve in 2025, but a lot of risks and uncertainty remain. What are your expectations for trucking rates and volumes in 2025? What actions do you [...]

Transportation Forecasting is a practice that involves taking demand forecasts, promotions, POS data, and other demand signals to create a rolling forecast of transportation capacity requirements [...]

Freight fraud is a growing problem. CargoNet, for example, "recorded 692 cargo theft eventsacross the United States and Canada in the third quarter of 2023, a 59% increase when compared to the [...]

Transportation is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions for most companies. Per ton-mile, trucking produces more CO2 emissions, on average, than other modes of freight [...]

For B2B and B2C companies alike, delivery is becoming a competitive differentiator and a key driver of customer experience. Everything can go perfect on the front end of the sales process, but a [...]

Load building (or load optimization) is the process of determining how to load a trailer with the maximum amount of product legally possible, taking into account space, weight, state regulations, [...]

Transportation Forecasting is a practice that involves taking demand forecasts, promotions, point of sale data, and other demand signals to create a rolling forecast of transportation capacity [...]

Last week, Uber Freight announced that it is acquiring Transplace (disclosure: Transplace is an Adelante SCM client). As the companies state in the press release, this acquisition "will create [...]

Industry reports indicate that shippers are using the spot market more than ever to find truckload capacity. This suggests that contracted carriers are rejecting tendered loads. Is your tender [...]