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Descartes has been receiving questions from customers asking how to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on their operations, employees, customers and carriers. The good news is there is a lot that can be done now with your existing logistics and supply chain technology.  Download the COVID 19 Action Guide: “Mitigate the Impact on your Logistics […]

The Executive director of The Airforwarders Association, Brandon Fried, speaks with FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller on the importance of the air freight industry and how it has adapted to accommodate the needs of a nation in crisis.

Storms strike the Southeast, COVID-19’s effects on insurance markets, pork shutdowns amid growing virus fears and so much more!

JP Hampstead and Zach Strickland discuss the current freight climate. Contracted truckload volumes are still going down, but the pace of the decline has slowed.

On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? we’re talking to owner/operator Ingrid Brown about trucking during a pandemic, more

Company was also nominated in three other categories.

Zach Strickland shows which markets are going down and which markets are bouncing back up in the Carrier Update presented by PowerFleet, and then on the DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index, Anthony Smith and Andrew Cox discuss how tender rejection rates are plummeting due to lack of freight movement. 

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On today’s show: PPP, economic recovery, economic impact payments, SONAR powered freight flows, more.

Zach Strickland details a further decline in volumes in the Carrier Update presented by PowerFleet, Luke Falasca discusses changes in several markets across the country in the Broker Update, and Anthony Smith provides macroeconomic updates for the month of March in the Shipper Update.

Anthony and Zach discuss what to make of the first major U.S. carrier to report earnings during the COVID-19 outbreak along with the recent Cass, industrial production and retail releases.

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On this week’s Drilling Deep, host John Kingston heard from Jack Rybicki, a managing principal at the accounting and consulting firm CLA.  Jack has been steering many clients through the process of trying to get money from the federal government under the CARES Act — in particular, the Payroll Protection Program that will allow employees […]

Learn how to make your best live and recorded sales demos yet on this episode of the podcast.

Zach Strickland examines a dramatic loosening in capacity in the Carrier Update presented by PowerFleet, Luke Falasca highlights a year to date low for tender rejections in the Broker Update, and Mike Baudendistel discusses declines in rail traffic with Anthony Smith in the Rail and Intermodal Update.

Carriers are hopeful that Q2 will be much less chaotic than last quarter.

Cultivating a positive culture while protecting the business

How a hog plant shutdown hits freight, plus prepper economics, air freight and more in this Coronavirus Freight Market Update