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FreightWaves Staff Tuesday, August 20, 2019

White Paper – The New Economics of Freight Brokerage

The marketplace for truckload transportation is fragmented and opaque. Relationships between shippers and carriers are tenuous at best, forged and broken by wild swings in capacity availability and rates per mile. In this white paper, Transfix and FreightWaves define the problems distorting the marketplace for truckload transportation, discuss how carriers think about their assets, explain the role of technology in reducing empty miles, and sketch out the economic dynamics that come into play when the marketplace is optimized to free up capacity at the right price.

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FreightWaves Staff Friday, May 17, 2019

What the Truck?!? Weekend Edition

What The Truck?!? is sending you into the weekend with all of the latest headlines and top stories from FreightWaves.com, as well as Earning Over / Under, On The Radar presented by SONAR, Fast Paced Forecast, and so much more. Let’s bang a little cowbell for the weekend and celebrate the launch of WTT?!?’s expansion to two episodes a week!

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Trevor Willingham Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Talking Turkey!

As you sit down for the traditional Thanksgiving dinner today, you’ll be enjoying not only some great food, but the lowest average cost of Thanksgiving meals since 2010, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

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Trevor Willingham Friday, November 16, 2018

Retail Activity Rebounds

Retail activity posted the strongest gain in five months, as big gains in auto sales and rising gasoline prices helped to drive overall activity. Core spending grew at a more moderate pace, but the broad-based nature of the gains is encouraging headed into the holiday season.

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FreightWaves Staff Friday, March 2, 2018

Understanding the impact of tariffs

As the Trump administration makes public its intent to look at using tariffs to address what it believes are inequities in global trade markets, it set the stock market into a tailspin for good reason. We decided to lay out a basic primer and history lesson on tariffs.

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