Truckload: Hanging tough through the soft market

Truckload shippers have been benefiting from the temporary excess capacity and subsequent lower rates, that situation will almost certainly come to an end as we get closer to 2017.


As contributing editor John Schulz reports in this month’s Quarterly Transportation Market Report (page 71S), it’s a “buyer’s market” in the truckload (TL) sector at the moment.

And while TL shippers have been benefiting from the temporary excess capacity and subsequent lower rates, that situation will almost certainly come to an end as we get closer to 2017.

No matter how the market shakes out over the next year, the readers of Logistics Management tell us that they have been working successfully with these 32 winners of Quest for Quality gold to streamline their supply chain operations during this topsy-turvy and unpredictable time.

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2016 Quest for Quality Winners Categories

NATIONAL LTL | REGIONAL LTL | TRUCKLOAD | RAIL/INTERMODAL | OCEAN CARRIERS | PORTS | 3PL | AIR CARRIERS and FREIGHT FORWARDERS



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