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Calculating Less-than-Truckload Freight Rates, What Should You Be Paying?

Kuebix, the creator of a transportation management system that delivers true freight intelligence, has launched the Kuebix Freight Rate Calculator, a new free tool for all transportation and logistics professionals to research and get instant estimates on their less-than-truckload freight.

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Less-than-Truckload carriers are now using dimensioning as an audit tool to protect revenues.

Kuebix, the creator of a transportation management system that delivers true freight intelligence, has launched the Kuebix Freight Rate Calculator, a new free tool for all transportation and logistics professionals to research and get instant estimates on their less-than-truckload freight.

“March Madness” is in full swing in college basketball and some industry analysts might also use a similar term to describe the current transportation environment “Rate Madness”.

Today’s shippers face complicated challenges in coming up with cost-effective ways to meet rapidly evolving customer service demands.

Buoyed by surging demand, less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers are revving up for 2018, warning that tightening capacity means sharply higher rates in a new era of pricing.

Learn more about what's influencing your truckload, less-than-truckload, and Intermodal surface transportation strategies in 2018 and how to overcome the challenges.

In a Jump Start 2018 exclusive, SMC³ brought together supply chain leaders James Welch, CEO of YRC Worldwide, and Jason Hess, vice president and general manager premium at Union Pacific Railroad, for an in-depth chat about the road ahead.

Continuing its mission of evolving with the supply chain and creating innovative solutions that fulfill shifting customer needs, SMC³ has expanded RateWare XL and BatchMark XL, adding advanced small-package rating capabilities to the industry’s most powerful and reliable LTL rating and auditing solutions.

In a time when effective supply chain collaboration is both highly valued and elusive, SMC³ and Logistics Management puts the spotlight on some of the nation’s best examples of overcoming critical supply chain challenges in its annual awards ceremony in Atlanta.

Chain.io, a leader in managed software integration services, and developer of their state of the art supply chain connectivity platform has integrated SMC³'s less-than-truckload visibility technology into their cloud-based system.

In this SMC³ case study, Chad Earwood, CEO of eShipping, describes how they integrated the SMC³ platform for transactional LTL API connectivity, and by using the high-horsepower, analytical APIs RateWare XL and CarrierConnect XL they are able to obtain immediate LTL rates and even audit LTL pricing.

Jump Start facilitates deeper knowledge and collaboration between logistics and transportation professionals from carrier, shipper, logistics service provider and technology verticals.

With winter weather conditions harsh and another big storm hitting yesterday in various pockets of the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States, myriad motor carriers are gearing up for the most recent batch of bad weather.

Bridging the gap between the order management and warehouse management systems can maximize routes, deliveries, and customers’ experience.

Less-than-truckload pricing success begins with a solid rating foundation, and for shippers, 3PLs and carriers, the first building block is a neutral, third-party base rate.