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Picture two invoices for the same pallet moving the same lane. Same weight, same freight class, same pickup address. One is from last October and one is from this week, and the second one is far higher. Nobody changed the shipment. Two things moved underneath it, and most shippers only notice [...]
Every year around this time, the same call lands on a freight desk somewhere. A shipper who looked at rates in August, decided to wait, and now needs pallets moved before Black Friday. The number on the screen isn't the one they remember. It's higher, the carrier list is shorter, and the pickup [...]
Labor Day just passed, and if you run shipping for a small or mid-size business, that weekend was your starting gun. Not because anything dramatic happened on the roads this week, but because every carrier's pricing calendar just flipped into peak mode. FedEx and UPS have locked in demand surcharges [...]
If your dock has a lane running somewhere between 550 and 1,500 miles, the math on that lane has quietly changed this year. Truckload spot rates were sitting close to 29 percent above last year's levels through most of July, and intermodal has not moved anywhere near that fast. On the exact [...]
