Omar Singh

The dark rate: Broker-to-Carrier Contract

Most benchmarking rate tools divide rates into two categories: either shipper-to-carrier contract rates or broker-to-carrier spot rates. There is a third category that nobody really talks about: broker-to-carrier contract. Let me set the stage first. One of the most reliable ways that the tools gather their information is to ask motor carriers and brokers to export their load information to them every night in Excel or some flat file. That information is separated into those two categories...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-dark-rate-broker-to-carrier-contract

Tech in logistics: Disruption or distraction?

By Omar Singh, president and founder, Surge Transportation

Until recent history, all of the top brokerages have been profitable companies. This is not the case with all of the investor-backed technology companies currently taking up market share, which leads me to ask the question: Is it better to be a technology company learning supply chain or a supply chain company learning to adopt technology?

There is an old joke in our industry: “How do you become a millionaire in the trucking business? You...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tech-in-logistics-disruption-or-distraction

Automating the sales process — Put That Coffee Down

This podcast is sponsored by Surge Transportation. Surge Transportation is the fastest growing 3PL in the logistics space today. Based in Chicago and Jacksonville, they offer unrestricted access to almost all accounts, limitless territory, and a chance to be a key player in a growing company. To find out more email [email protected]

Automation is making waves in every sector across the transportation industry, but where does it fit into sales?

On this episode of Put That Coffee Down,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/automating-the-sales-process-put-that-coffee-down

API vs. RPA — what’s the difference?

By Omar Singh, president and founder, Surge Transportation

Do you remember studying something in school and asking yourself or your teacher, “When am I ever going to use this?” Well I asked that once of a professor when talking about a calculus class. He explained that we were not studying calculus because we were going to use it in whatever jobs we ended up having. We were studying it to learn how to solve complex, multistep problems: “I know you are not going to use the quadratic equation in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/api-vs-rpa-whats-the-difference

The failure of routing guides — Put That Coffee Down

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Surge Transportation is the fastest growing 3PL in the logistics space today. Based in Chicago and Jacksonville, they offer unrestricted access to almost all accounts, limitless territory, and a chance to be a key player in a growing company. To find out more email [email protected]

Routing guides are a tool used to establish concrete rules for shipping and delivery. So why do they have a failure rate of nearly 100%?

On this episode of Put That Coffee Down, Kevin Hill explores the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-failure-of-routing-guides-put-that-coffee-down

Selling the right spot — Put That Coffee Down

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Spot rates are all over the place in the current freight market and brokers need to understand how to work each different spot. On this episode of Put That Coffee Down, Kevin Hill walks you through each different market and what you need to know to be successful across the board. 

Hill again welcomes FreightWaves SONAR account executive Richie Daigle as his co-host to discuss how spot markets are the wild card in freight — you never know what you are going to get. 

They say spot rates are like...

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