Q4 2020 Forecast – Freight Forecasting with Michael V (video)
Kyle Lintner, Principal and Managing Partner at K-Ratio, joins Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent in a discussion of key market indicators and what they are saying about the fourth quarter of 2020. https://vimeo.com/463980262 Kyle and Michael also discuss key FreightWaves SONAR features – the Outbound Tender Volume Index (OTVI), the Inbound Tender Rejection Index (ITRI), charts and […]
Transparency and Data Integrity in Supply Chain Resiliency (video)
Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent is joined by Jeff Dangelo, Founder of Turvo in a discussion about the need to re-think collaboration, transparency and freight data. Dangelo co-founded Turvo, which is based in Palo Alto, California, in October 2014 after about 13 years in logistics and supply chain sales at MegaCorp Logistics and Total Quality Logistics. […]
Carrier Relations & Data-Driven Decision-Making – Freight Forecasting (video)
Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent is joined by Matt Pyatt, CEO of Arrive Logistics. Michael and Matt have a discussion about data-driven decision-making. They focus on carrier relations and management from a third-party logistics provider (3PL) perspective. Watch the episode below: They also discuss how various SONAR indices can generate a positive impact on broker/carrier […]
Best Practices for 3PLs Using Freight Data – Freight Forecasting (video)
Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent is joined by Tom Curee, the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Kingsgate Logistics. Michael and Tom discuss data intelligence and how it helps provide Kingsgate Logistics with added value for its customers as well as other best practices for 3PLs using freight data. Watch the Full Episode […]
Pricing Tools, Predictive Rates, and The Ocean – Freight Forecasting (video)
Zach Strickland, FreightWaves’ Director of Freight Market Intelligence (and the “Sultan of SONAR”), joins Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent on this episode. Zach and Michael discuss the new SONAR 7.0 release and its new features, which include Lane Scorecard, Ocean Shipments Report and Reefer Rates (beta). Watch the episode below: Lane Scorecard can uncomplicate a […]
Prioritizing your day with SONAR – Freight Forecasting (video)
Zach Strickland, FreightWaves’ Director of Freight Market Intelligence (and the “Sultan of SONAR”), joins Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent on this episode. Zach and Michael discuss how shippers, carriers and brokers can (and many do) use FreightWaves SONAR to prioritize their days and make themselves more effective and efficient. Watch the Full Episode Below Michael […]
Charting Load Volumes and Capacity Fluctuations – Freight Forecasting (video)
Anthony Smith, FreightWaves’ Lead Economist, and Zach Strickland, FreightWaves’ Director of Freight Market Intelligence, join Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent on this episode. They talk about the state of current freight markets and how SONAR can be utilized to learn what the near-term future might hold. Watch the episode below: Michael, Zach and Anthony also […]
What is driving the current freight market? – Freight Forecasting (video)
Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent is joined by Anthony Smith, FreightWaves’ Lead Economist, and John Kingston, FreightWaves Editor at Large to discuss what is driving the freight market. Primarily because of the pandemic (but there are other contributing factors), the 2020 freight market to-date has been very different from any other year since the trucking […]
Forecasting Volumes and Capacity – Freight Forecasting (video)
Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent is joined by Zach Strickland, FreightWaves’ Director of Freight Market Intelligence. They discuss the apparent peak of freight volumes and how SONAR can help subscribers recognize the next hot market. SONAR’s billions of data points provide subscribers a wide variety of data sets so that they can focus on the […]
Truckload volumes and warehousing – Freight Forecasting (video)
Lead Economist Anthony Smith joins Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent on this episode. They discuss the current spike in volumes and warehouse inventories as they relate to imports. Watch the episode below: Examples include comparisons of volume in Los Angeles to the rest of the nation, the year-over-year increase in intermodal rail out of Los […]
International trade – Freight Forecasting (video)
Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent is joined on this episode by Zach Strickland, FreightWaves’ Director of Freight Market Intelligence. Zach shows viewers how to build SONAR charts centered around international trade. Watch the episode below: International trade is a leading indicator of domestic surface transportation. Among the tools in SONAR that relate to international trade […]
Cost vs. Volume – Freight Forecasting (video)
Zach Strickland, FreightWaves’ Director of Freight Market Intelligence (and the “Sultan of SONAR”) joins Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent on this episode. Zach and Michael discuss why freight demand is not enough to forecast rates. A major advantage of FreightWaves SONAR freight forecasting platform is that it has millions of data points and many, many […]
Broker/Carrier 101 – Freight Forecasting (video)
Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent is joined by Donny Gilbert, FreightWaves’ Market Expert in the brokerage area. They discuss the topic of “Broker/Carrier 101” and freight forecasting from the perspectives of brokers and carriers. While relationships are not always perfect, brokers need carriers and carriers need brokers (and both need shippers). As FreightWaves SONAR shows […]
ECON 101 – Freight Forecasting (video)
Anthony Smith, FreightWaves’ Lead Economist, joins Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent to explain and illustrate the importance of economic factors and how they can have a great deal of influence on the freight markets and the various modes of freight movement. Anthony and Michael discuss Industrial Production and ISM Diffusion Indices. They also talk about […]
Forecasting Inland Markets (video)
Zach Strickland, FreightWaves’ Director of Freight Market Intelligence, joins Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent to discuss SONAR’s various maritime data points as they relate to and forecast inland freight movements. SONAR provides near-time data sets and information that allow users to better understand the freight market environment in which they compete – and then forecast […]
What is a Freight Forecaster and why are they important? (video)
Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent introduces viewers to the basics of freight forecasting. From a shipper to an over-the-road truck driver, Michael will explain what freight forecasting is and why you need to forecast. Watch the episode below: The main purposes of forecasting freight is to determine the specific capacity needed to move freight from […]
Freight Futures: The Future(s) of Freight
Guests Kyle Lintner, Principal and Managing Partner at K Ratio and Daniel Stanton “Mr. Supply Chain®” join Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent in a discussion of mid- and long-term freight forecasting and how Trucking Freight Futures can greatly benefit the trucking industry. Freight Forecasting talks Freight Futures in “The Future(s) Of Freight” Episode Watch the […]
Trucking data is not enough in unprecedented times
FreightWaves’ Lead Economist Anthony Smith and Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent talk about how important macroeconomic data is when trying to forecast capacity demand. With SONAR, a user has access to truckload and market data in any of 135 key markets in the U.S. But that user also has critical information from industry verticals and historical […]
Maritime Imports – Leading Indicator for Freight Movement in the U.S. (Video)
Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent’s guests are Greg Miller, FreightWaves’ Senior Editor for Maritime, and Zach Strickland, Director or Freight Intelligence at FreightWaves. The three colleagues talk about the effects of maritime markets on the U.S. surface transportation markets. Watch the episode below: Using SONAR’s maritime and international trade data sets, subscribers can forecast future […]
“V” or “Reverse Square Root?” (video)
Zach Strickland, FreightWaves’ Director of Freight Market Intelligence, joins Freight Forecasting host Michael Vincent in a discussion regarding economic and freight market data trends. They explore how best to bring transparency into the freight market for the remainder of the summer and for the third quarter of 2020, and what type of economic recovery we […]
