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The National Industrial Transportation League recently held its annual conference and there were two things we learned about that we wanted to share - the situation at the ports and how to become a "shipper of choice".

The West Coast Ports are quickly approaching a crisis situation that will affect your supply chain, and this is heading into the holiday season when shipping increases.

These increases come at a time when the LTL market is in a good spot, due to solid manufacturing and industrial production activity, coupled with decent retail-related volumes in advance of the holiday shopping season.

The message from the recent CSCMP conference is loud and clear, the supply chain storm is much closer to hitting than most realize.

Freight costs will continue to go up unless you change the way you are working.

With pending modifications to CSA, the industry may be looking at the new comeback kid.

Shippers need to be sharing these types of articles with their Senior Executives, so they have a better understanding of the transportation marketplace and how it could impact the bottom line for their companies.

At the recent 2014 Stifel Transportation and Logistics Conference, and the Food Shippers Annual Transportation Conference, I had some great discussions with industry experts. They highlighted three reasons carrier rates will rise in 2014.

Anyone who has talked to a motor carrier knows that it costs a lot more to operate a truck today that it did three years ago. Despite the increased operating expense, shippers have been able to avoid significant rate increases to this point.

So what's next for YRC? Whatever road YRC chooses, it’s clear that shippers and its own 26,000 Teamsters employees hold the key to long-term survival of the venerable 90-year-old company whose roots date to the golden age of trucking.

News recently broke that the unions had resoundingly defeated YRC’s proposed contract that would extend their labor agreement into 2019. Here's our take on what this means and what to expect ahead.

It is our goal to be able to provide you with all the information you need to manage your business. In the transportation industry there are key contributors of valuable information and in this 2:00 Minute Warning we provide you access to these resources, all in one location.

Coming off of July, which saw its first decrease in five months in conjunction with other indices declining, the Cass Information Systems Freight Index switched back to growth mode in August.

Even though various freight- and economic-related indices have lost steam in recent weeks, one which continues to chug along is the TransCore North American Freight Index.