Philadelphia is a backhaul market that has switched to a headhaul market so far this year, and outbound volumes in Louisville, Kentucky, have reached their highest point since SONAR began tracking the market in 2018.
It will take assassins accuracy, but Amazon has all the data to make aiming an afterthought.
Ashley Furniture, Kellogg, Republic Plastics and Transport America are reducing empty miles and gaining support for sharing trailer space.
After a period of attempting to improve detention times with carriers, they appear to be falling into the old habits of making load/unload times are lower priority according to FreightWaves’ Detention Minutes Index.
Los Angeles has had the heaviest freight volumes in the U.S. for the past several months, but carriers should be paying attention to where that freight is headed.
The two Super Bowl teams and their fanbases are very different, just like their freight market identities.
We take a look at the basic differences between headhaul, backhaul and deadhead in this infographic.
FreightWaves releases the Headhaul Index, a measurement of the discrepancy between inbound and outbound volumes.
Transportation network Lanehub recently announced Backhaul Assist, a feature that will allow shippers utilizing private fleets or dedicated contract carriers to market available capacity to other shippers.
