Unlock Hidden Capacity in Your Freight Network

What Is Lane Connect?

Lane Connect analyzes historic lane patterns to remove empty miles in the supply chain for shippers, carriers, and brokers.

Users can evaluate their internal freight networks for opportunities to consolidate lanes into a single round trip, or they can establish partnerships to find mutually beneficial overlapping lanes on which to share capacity.

If you have multiple operating platforms or decentralized shipment and capacity planning in your network today, Lane Connect can generate efficiencies within your own organization.

With Lane Connect, companies across the logistics ecosystem can maximize efficiency, sustainability, and productivity across their supply chains.

Why Collaborate?

The logistics industry is currently plagued with waste and underutilization of assets. Empty miles are a pervasive problem; some estimates of the number of trucks driving empty are as high as 40 percent. Much of this empty capacity lies in the truckload market, especially private and dedicated fleets, which have rapidly expanded over the past few years to meet new consumer expectations of same-day or next-day delivery.

If shippers, carriers, 3PLs, and brokers were able to tap into this unused capacity and maximize the productivity of their own fleets, it would unlock efficiency across the logistics industry.

With Lane Connect from FourKites, now they can. Lane Connect helps companies identify round-trip opportunities in their own networks, and uncover overlapping lanes with other companies with whom they can partner to share capacity and eliminate empty miles.

Table of Contents

• Collaboration in Action: The Trading Partners Alliance
• What Is Lane Connect?
• Getting Started
• The Collaborative Journey
• Network Size Matters
• Build a Sustainable Future
• The FourKites Difference

Download this ebook and find out how Lane Connect empowers companies to make tangible progress towards their sustainability goals by reducing the number of unnecessary miles driven in the supply chain.