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Transforming Your Business

What is the Technology Stack to Optimize Enterprise Trucking Companies?

Today, it’s not enough to run on the trucking technology stack of a decade ago. Even the advancements of the last five years can make a.

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Choosing the Best Load

An Asset-Based Operator's Guide to Optimizing a Load Acceptance Plan

The ability to thrive in a competitive freight market depends on making well-informed decisions. For asset-based trucking companies,.

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Artificial Decision Intelligence

Talking Decision Analytics Series Part 6: Balancing Objectives for Real-Time Dispatch

Dispatching drivers is a balancing act that can feel like being pulled in different directions at the same time: reducing empties,.

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Artificial Decision Intelligence

Talking Decision Analytics Series Part 5: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

I constantly remind managers: “If you want better performance, you have to make better decisions!”

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Artificial Decision Intelligence

Talking Decision Analytics Series Part 4: Risk Metrics Continued

Management may wish to avoid the risk of an event such as an earthquake, but ultimately risk events, have to be translated into metrics.

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Artificial Decision Intelligence

Talking Decision Analytics Series Part 3: Risk Metrics

There is a lot of unstructured talk about risk which often comes across as: “We know it when we see it” but otherwise do not know how to.

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Artificial Decision Intelligence

Talking Decision Analytics Series Part 2: Performance Metrics

Performance metrics come in two broad categories:

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Artificial Decision Intelligence

Talking Decision Analytics Series Part 1: Learning How to Think About Complex Problems

One lesson I came to appreciate while working on a wide range of practical problems is that the exercise of creating computer models.

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Artificial Decision Intelligence

Introduction: A New Series on Decision Analytics for Truckload Trucking

Starting today, Optimal Dynamics Chief Innovation Officer, Warren Powell will begin a series of educational posts on decision analytics.

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Our dispatchers are planning 60% more freight in the same amount of time, while even more importantly exceeding our operational efficiency goals.

- Rick Larkin, CIO at BCB Transport