As the year 2013 winds down, it is time to reflect on the major transportation trends of the past year. While I saw and read about a wide range of developments, these are the ones that resonated most with me.
1.Technology Comes to Freight Transportation
Last year I predicted that we would see a flurry of new technologies come to freight transportation. They did and I wrote about some of these new companies on several occasions during the year. Technology was successfully applied to the freight brokerage business, freight portals, LTL density calculations and to other segments of the industry. Buytruckload.com, PostBidShip, Freightopolis, QuoteMyTruckload, and Freightsnap were featured in various blogs during the year. They are changing the way business is done in freight transportation. Watch for more of these companies to surface in 2014.
2013 has been called the Year of the Network by numerous supply chain and transportation industry thought leaders. Companies that built a successful supply chain trading partner network focused on three elements:
Connectivity— unite disparate systems and trading partners
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