Weathering downturns with real-time visibility

Whether or not the market is in a downturn depends on whom you ask, but one thing’s for sure: Increasing capacity isn’t easy. With fuel costs remaining high, and with equipment and workforce shortages, fleets are having to reassess their strategies.

“The cost to increase capacity is extremely high,” said Matt Harris, senior vice president of sales at PowerFleet, explaining that demand and capacity volatility pose serious challenges.

When a downturn seems imminent, private fleets and truckload...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/weathering-downturns-with-real-time-visibility

Reefer capacity remains tight: How to optimize available trailers

By: Corrie White, market reporter at FreightWaves

While the logistics industry has traditionally leaned on seasonality to understand fluctuations in the market, that strategy doesn’t seem to be working anymore. 

“If we have learned anything over the past year, it is the fact we cannot apply pre-pandemic patterns to the current freight environment just yet,” said Zach Strickland, director of Freight Market Intelligence at FreightWaves.

This also applies to reefer carriers ⁠— a sector that is more...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/reefer-capacity-remains-tight-how-to-optimize-available-trailers