True RPM vs the posted rate
The same $1,850 load as a posted rate, a rate per all mile and a profit per mile, with every step of the arithmetic.
Road works and weather on your lanes
Work-zone feeds, NWS alerts and NOAA history for freight lanes, with invented delay arithmetic and the limits of each source.
Reefer temperature days and fuel
A typical July has 30.8 days at 90 F or more in Phoenix and 1.8 in Seattle. A worked fuel example on invented unit figures.
New authority: first 90 days of cash flow
Same loads, same costs, one month of difference in payment speed: $1,000 of cushion against $21,000, on invented numbers.
How to ask for a rate review
A $2.10 cost per mile in Jan 2019 becomes $3.10 on published indexes in the worked example. How to turn that into a calm rate review message.
When spot diesel moves, when the pump follows
About 63 cents of every dollar of spot change reached the pump within 4 weeks, 90 cents by 8 weeks later. A worked example in gallons.
Diesel seasonality: season or place?
A monthly index and a regional price gap from EIA weekly history, with what a small fleet can and cannot do about it.
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