Transportation Insight, LLC

If your team is always chasing late loads, unexpected charges and service issues, the root cause may live inside your operations, not on the road.

Tyler Brooks discusses how to trace transportation problems back to the upstream processes and systems that create them, then guides you through a built-in self-evaluation to pinpoint where your own network may be most exposed.

Read Tyler's blog, and while you're there, complete the self-evaluation.

Fixing Transportation Problems At The Source In Operations Operation decisions make or break transportation optimization. Aligning upstream processes can cut expedited shipments and turns freight into a financial lever.

Is your transportation model truly resilient or just held together by team heroics? David Phillips explores how to move from firefighting and manual workarounds to adaptive transportation designs that bend with volatility instead of breaking every peak.

When Stable Transportation Models Break Transportation models built for stability crack under volatility. Learn how to rethink design for today’s constant change.

If you spend more time reconciling conflicting dashboards than improving results, you may have a local optimization problem.

Kevin Hunt walks you through how you can shift the mindset from siloed wins to enterprise wins using shared KPIs, governance and clearer tradeoffs. His blog also includes a quick self-evaluation so you can see where your structure may be working against your strategy.

The Hidden Cost Of Local Transportation Optimization Smart local logistics decisions can still raise total cost. Learn how to stop local optimization from undermining enterprise performance.

Big congratulations to Nicole Walton, our VOC Spotlight of the Month for March! Nicole's clients say that she consistently delivers best-in-class service, dives deep into their businesses and builds strong partnerships that drive results. We are grateful for your passion, leadership and commitment, Nicole.

When transportation ex*****on performance depends on constant heroics, the system is fragile, not scalable.

Marcus Houston's latest blog explains how shippers can replace effort-driven firefighting with intentionally designed processes to reduce cost volatility and drive operational efficiency.

Read the blog and take our short self evaluation to see where heroic effort may be hiding structural risk in your network.

When Effort Replaces Transportation Ex*****on Design Transportation ex*****on that relies on heroics does not scale. Learn how disciplined logistics design protects cost and service as you grow.

Rising fuel surcharges are reshaping your parcel shipping budget, even when your base rates look flat.

Robyn Meyer explains in her latest blog what is really driving the increases, and how you can use shipment level visibility to protect profit.

Read her blog to see how to:
• Quantify how much of your parcel spend is tied to fuel surcharges and fees versus base rates
• Spot the services, zones and shipment profiles where fuel hits you hardest
• Turn those insights into concrete changes in contracts, routing and packaging that lower total cost

How Fuel Surcharges Quietly Raise Parcel Shipping Costs Fuel surcharges are reshaping parcel shipping costs. Learn how fuel surcharges and fees impact your invoices and what steps to take to control of total spend.

Transportation performance rarely gets decided when freight moves. It is shaped much earlier through decision timing and ownership.

Mike Manders breaks down how finance leaders can move key transportation decisions upstream, reduce hidden costs and turn transportation into a controllable lever on the P&L.

Read the full piece:

Transportation Decision Advantage For CFOs See how finance leaders move transportation from cost surprise to controllable lever by changing decision timing and ownership.

Big shoutout to Ethan Houser, our VOC Spotlight of the Month!🏆

Thank you for your commitment to our customers and the relationships you build every day. 🎖️

Dimensional weight is already a major driver of parcel shipping cost, and recent rule changes are increasing exposure to additional handling and oversize charges.

Todd Benge shares a practical roadmap to audit dimensional data, strengthen carton strategies and gain clearer visibility into surcharge triggers so you can protect your parcel budget and bring better insights into carrier discussions.

Dimensional Weight Rules Changes: Are You Prepared? Prepare for 2026 parcel shipping changes. Dimensional weight is driving more additional handling and oversize charges, so update data and packaging now.

AI data centers and modern energy projects live or die on logistics. One missed crane window or a single damaged transformer can blow up your entire build.

Marcus Houston discusses why it's important to bake logistics into project architecture from day one, not tack it on at the end. Think project‑ready carrier ecosystems, real‑time control centers and contingency plans that keep primary, secondary and even tertiary options open.

Read the full blog:

Designing Logistics For The AI Data Center Buildout Design logistics for AI data centers and energy projects with fewer delays, less risk and stronger contingency plans by unifying carriers, control centers and data.

TI is Orlando bound next week for Food Shippers of America 2026.

Working alongside food and beverage shippers we are focused on how network design, data and ex*****on can support service goals while protecting margins.

Craig Bowen, Heather Shirley and Ryan Simpson will be there throughout the week and are available to talk through transportation and supply chain questions that are top of mind for 2026.

Parcel carriers are chasing yield, not volume, while freight capacity slowly erodes. Read our Q1 2026 Transportation Outlook and see what this mix means for your 2026 transportation costs.

Q1 2026 Transportation Outlook Freight markets enter 1Q26 stable but tightening, as tech absorbs shocks and capacity constraints push rates steadily higher.