Freight & Truck Broker Blog

What You Should Know about Cargo Liability vs. Insurance

How do you know if your loads are covered, especially if they are high-value and high-risk? Does your carrier or broker cover load losses over $100,000 even if it’s not their fault? How can you avoid the financial disaster that could follow a freight disaster? Understanding the difference between cargo… Read More
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Freight & Trucking Outlook: Summer into Q3/Q4

With the drumbeat of recession chatter, combined with falling year-over-year shipment volume and pricing, it can be easy to be pessimistic. However, it’s important to be cautious with year-over-year numbers: artificially high demand for durable goods through most of the pandemic—caused by an artificially low supply of consumer services due… Read More
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In the Dark About Freight Shipment Timing & Costs? You Shouldn’t Be.

At a recent Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) conference, we were struck by how disconnected supplier and reseller communications are. Many just don’t see a path to connecting the dots primarily because their carriers and/or brokers don’t provide this for them. This freight status quo has been accepted… Read More
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How to Protect Your High-Value Freight Shipments

How do you secure and insure your high-value, highly targeted loads? Truck hijacking is on the rise, so here’s how you can protect your cargo – and drivers – from organized crime and inside jobs. From a recent hijacking of a truck carrying graphics cards to a UPS big rig… Read More
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LiVe’s White-Glove Transportation Services Come with 99.5% On-Time Rates

LiVe provides white-glove freight brokerage and transportation services with near-perfect success rates; here’s one company’s experience. When the logistics manager at nutritional supplement company Nutrabolt, required a logistics and transportation partner, he knew just the team to call. As a company that prides itself on providing innovative and high-quality products… Read More
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How to Determine the Right Flatbed for Your Loads

We understand that it may be difficult to know what you need for your flatbed shipments. To help familiarize you with the options so that we can prepare a flatbed quote without lots of back-and-forth, we pulled together the options below for you to consider. Flatbed Types The following types… Read More
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How to Navigate Unpredictable Transportation Costs in 2023

It should come as no surprise: our outlook for 2023 is that of continued uncertainty. How confident are you that your carriers can handle everything thrown your way next year? Anyone expecting no disruptions in 2023 might be destined for a career outside of transportation. How do you mitigate transportation… Read More

Technology’s Role in Freight Compliance & Visibility

Technology helps reduce the risk of lawsuits and knowing where your shipments are at all times A successful shipment is more than moving a product from point A to point B. It starts with using reliable drivers with the best safety records and lack of infractions as well as having… Read More

4 Ways to Drive Down Inbound Freight Total Cost of Ownership

How LiVe Logistics Can Optimize Your Inbound Transportation Some experienced transportation and logistics professionals make the mistake of focusing too much on outbound freight costs and not enough on the costs of inbound freight, warehousing and fulfillment. As a result, unchecked inbound freight costs can fly under the radar and… Read More