October 2015

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Reduce Freight Transportation Costs with Intermodal Service

Offered By: Weber Logistics

Over-the-road trucking has had its challenges in recent years, thanks to driver shortages, HOS regulations, rising fuel costs, and capacity shortages. During that time, railroads have been improving tracks and facilities, as well as service offerings, to meet shippers' needs. This paper addresses the misperceptions of intermodal service and provides tips to get the most out of intermodal service.

Visibility, Speed and Agility: How M2M is Redefining the Supply Chain and Transportation

Offered By: AT&T

Transportation and supply chain management are critical pillars of global commerce and are facing unprecedented challenges and change. The new and original information in this study sheds light on how executives at transportation and supply chain management companies use or plan to use technology to address these issues and more. Key findings in the survey data reveal that "operational visibility" – knowing where a shipment is and monitoring the environmental conditions in near real-time of cargo in-transit – is becoming a critical tool for the supply chain and the transportation industries.

Do "Favored Shippers" Really Receive Better Pricing and Service?

Offered By: C.H. Robinson

Anecdotal evidence and some qualitative research suggests that "favored shippers" — companies for which carriers prefer to haul freight — obtain better pricing and service. But do they? In this paper, Iowa State University researchers explain: how they sought to understand the voice of U.S. truckload carriers; how they quantitatively measured the effects of "favored shipper" characteristics on transportation costs; and what characteristics actually make shippers favored in the transportation marketplace.

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