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Carrier selection and tendering

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Carrier selection and tendering

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on carrier selection and tendering. The idea is that you have gone through the planning process, you have created your freight orders using the transportation cockpit and now you're ready to finish the planning process by choosing a carrier and getting that information to the carrier so they can either accept or not accept the load. The real big question you have to ask up front is what is your strategy with your carriers? How do you work with your carriers? For example, and I'll give you two extremes. They're competitive at the sellers market, they'll take the loads I give them. I did an implementation for a steel company as you guys know, steel company was once very big and there have been many cutbacks in that world. Unfortunately, there still are a ton of carriers out there, so it's very, very competitive market, very tough on the drivers. Basically, it's cutthroat at price rules. You give them a load, you give them a price that they can live with, they'll take it. As opposed to…

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