Freight Market Data Sources
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Freight Shipping Data: Comparing the Gold Standard of Real-Time Data vs. Lagging, Stale Data
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What Is a Freight Routing Guide?
Request a SONAR SCI Lane Acuity demo today to learn more about how your team can evolve the freight routing guide to find failures before they occur and prevent them by matching RFPs to market dynamics. Request a SONAR Demo
5 Tools Carriers Need for Success in the Freight Market
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Four Factors That Impact Freight Revenue and Profitability
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5 Freight Rate Volatility Contributors to Consider
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How to Use Market Volatility
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The 10 Trucking Trends in 2021
When to choose intermodal to move freight
While freight mode optimization remains a top priority for companies, there’s an option that’s often overlooked – cross-carrier or intermodal shipping. This mode is often used interchangeably with multimodal, but it’s entirely different. As explained by TradeLens, this cross-carrier form of “transportation is defined as freight movement via more than one mode of transportation. Goods […]
How to use SONAR to monitor freight markets
Freight volumes SONAR’s outbound tender volume index (OTVI) measures electronically tendered truckload volumes across the U.S. Overall OTVI is indexed to 10,000 (March 1, 2018) and is the aggregated volume in 135 U.S. freight markets. OTVI is the most accurate near-time view of the full truckload markets. Freight forecasters use the OTVI index to monitor […]
Why destination matters for freight rates
While origin matters for transportation rate forecasting, the destination is often times more important. The transportation rates for a backhaul destination are naturally higher than transportation rates for a headhaul market. This holds for all freight moved by truck, rail/intermodal, ocean or air.
