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Antecedents of Spot and Contract Freight Mix in the Truckload Sector

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Published in 2022 at "Transportation Journal"

DOI: 10.5325/transportationj.61.4.0331

Abstract: Abstract:Truckload carriers face tradeoffs in their effort to build their freight networks from combinations of spot market and contract shipments. These tradeoffs exist because contract freight provides loose volume guarantees but lower linehaul rates, whereas… read more here.

Keywords: theory; contract; contract freight; spot market ... See more keywords