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Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts
Friday, November 25, 2016

October Results are Not encouraging for Transportation Providers

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It may not be a complete "Happy Thanksgiving" for people who manage 3d party transportation.  After some very large decreases in t...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

A Balanced Summary of Where The Trucking Industry Stands

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Fleet Owner summarized the FTR Transportation conference with an article about the headwinds facing the transportation industry.  They are ...
Monday, August 1, 2016

Cass Indices for June Report Real Issues with Trucking and Intermodal

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The Cass Indices for June r eported what observers knew was to be the case:  Once again the trucking "recovery" has stalled and ca...
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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Revisit "Favored Shipper" During Downturn in Rates

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I have advocated over and over that the idea of getting better rates because you are a "favored" or "preferred" shipper ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Predictions Coming True - Inventory Adjustment Under Way and Rates are Down

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A special edition of Marcoeconomic Monday today!  The results are in and they are really showing a slowing economy (GDP adjustments have bee...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Pricing Declines in Both Truckload and Intermodal

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The promise of "pay me now so you don't have to pay me later" continues to be a mirage.  With the release of the March CASS...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Another Year of Dashed Hopes for Trucking

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Well, another year starts off with the "this is the year for trucking" story and it is starting to look like it is another year wh...
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Saturday, February 6, 2016

Courier and Delivery Driver Employment Fall; Warehouse Employment Up

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Post the holiday e-commerce surge, the inevitable arrived.   According to the Wall Street Journal, courier and delivery jobs were shed quick...

Is Your 3PL Working for You The Shipper or For The Carrier

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Anyone who reads my blog regularly knows I am not a fan of this carrier creation called "be a shipper of choice".  To simplify my ...
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Sunday, July 26, 2015

FTR Responds to 10xLogisticsExpert - Are We Driven by Fear

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You may have read my blog posting Another Summer and More Fear from FTR.  I am happy to link back to the thoughtful and well written respon...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

DOJ Investigates Airlines - Are the Trucking Companies Next?

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A while back I wrote about how I thought executives in the trucking industry were getting dangerously close to collusion as they discussed c...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

A More Thoughtful Article on Capacity

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This, from BCG, is a much more thoughtful article on the true capacity issues in transportation.  The issue is NOT trucking capacity as tha...

Don't Be Fooled Again..

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For those who read my last post and are not sure it is true, I refer you back to the post from November 7th, 2013 titled:  " The Fear T...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Another Summer and More Fear from FTR

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It is like clockwork.  I can set my watch by the articles that will be printed by the logistics' press such as FTR.  Here is the story o...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Is Being The Shipper of Choice a Rational Buying Behavior?

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I once again had to sit through a "shipper of choice" meeting with a carrier and I was as disappointed as I am with every one of t...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Rethinking The Core Carrier Strategy - Too Many Eggs in One Basket?

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There are two sides of a continuum in procurement strategies for transportation.  On one end is full " auction " type purchasing w...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

State of Transportation - XPO Logistics

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I have reported on XPO logistics   ( Follow this link on XPO to see all my thoughts) a lot as it fascinates me how a company comes out of n...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

The Fear Trade Picks Up Steam - Don't Be Fooled

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One of my favorite songs from childhood is "Won't Be Fooled Again" by The Who and this is my theme for what I have called the ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Truckload Strong; Intermodal Weak

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I have not reviewed the CASS information for a while but have used other sources which have all told the same story.  Intermodal freight...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Energy as part of the Global Bill of Materials

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If I told you there was a portion of your bill of materials which could make up 20% -40% of a major component would you want to know what th...