4 Different Types of Trucking Carriers Shippers Should Consider in RFPs
When it comes to planning RFPs and figuring out which carrier partnerships to pursue, shipping managers need to be aware of the various trucking carriers with availability. Throughout most freight shipping chains, there are four types of providers offering services through requests for proposals (RFPs), such as full truckload RFPs and less-than-truckload RFPs and similar […]
How Carriers Can Optimize Their Assets (with video)
On this episode of #WithSONAR, co-hosts Luke Falasca and Kyle Taylor discuss how to automate workflows, improve service levels and expand operations for asset-based carriers. They discussed how Zaro Transportation leverages SONAR to improve and increase its business. As an asset-based broker, Zaro Transportation is using SONAR to create more accurate rating processes and higher […]
Carrier sourcing: 7 ways freight brokers look for carriers
For freight brokers there is a method to the madness of covering loads. These carrier sourcing strategies are similar to the order of operations we all learned in algebra. Knowing these steps and learning how to develop new carrier sourcing strategies at the top of the list is the key to improve the percentage of […]
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 […]
How do truckers find loads
Like all business owners, truckers need to sell their services and find customers. Unlike other businesses though, truckers need customers with freight in the right place, at the right time. Building a network of shippers with freight at the right place at the right time is difficult. Many truckers just do not have the time […]
Top things a trucking company can do to maximize trucking rates
Regardless of whether a trucking is primarily a dry van truckload carrier, reefer, or flatbed, all carriers have one thing in common – a desire to maximize trucking rates.
