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AI Wisdom: EKA’s Innovate, Automate, Elevate, and Thrive™ Formula for Smarter Freight Tech

AI wisdom means understanding that your business doesn’t run on algorithms. It runs on people, relationships, and split-second decisions when everything goes sideways.

Broker Strategy
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Not a Threat — An Opportunity: How to Thrive Under DOT’s Non-Domiciled CDL Crackdown

The CDL crackdown isn’t going away. But carriers that track the right numbers, do the math, and stay ahead of compliance will thrive while everyone else panics.

Broker Strategy
Carroll Fulmer (2)

Adapt or Collapse: Lessons in Supply Chain Resilience from Carroll Fulmer’s Downfall and the Hybrid Trucking Model

The freight market has crashed before and will crash again, but the difference the next time will be whether you’ve learned to roll with the punches or are still waiting to get knocked out.

Freight Market Trends

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Driving Value: Transforming Broker Carrier Relationships with Tech-Powered Solutions

Last week, we talked about the Broker Transparency Law coming late 2025 or early 2026. You already know the gist of it: margins go public, carriers see your cut, shippers compare your rates. We also covered how a solid TMS helps you stay ahead of compliance headaches. But compliance alone won’t save you when every […]

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by Adam Robinson
freight broker transparency

Not a Threat – a Wake-Up Call: Broker Transparency Law and the TMS Advantage

The Broker Transparency Law is coming around late 2025 or early 2026, and soon your margins will become everybody’s business, whether you like it or not.

Broker Strategy
TMS AI

Rebirth of TMS in the AI Age

Trucking needs more than cosmetic updates and subscription fees for features that should have been standard a decade ago. And that’s where the rebirth, powered by AI TMS, begins.

Supply Chain Visibility
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ATRI 2025 Report Implications: Freight’s Future – Ditch Old Playbooks, Start Winning in 90 Days

With this freight recession being in its third year, whereas past recessions have turned around after 1.5-2 years, the issues are truly about businesses surviving.

Freight Market Trends
AI wisdom

AI Wisdom: EKA’s Innovate, Automate, Elevate, and Thrive™ Formula for Smarter Freight Tech

AI wisdom means understanding that your business doesn’t run on algorithms. It runs on people, relationships, and split-second decisions when everything goes sideways.

Broker Strategy
EKA trucking market

A New Paradigm: Surviving and Thriving in This Trucking Market

Fulmer, Montgomery, and a growing list of names you probably recognized when they went Chapter 11. You saw those headlines and felt it in your gut, because you’re living the same reality they couldn’t outrun. Rates are stuck. Insurance keeps climbing. Fuel swings wildly. Maintenance bills pile up. Every month, you’re crunching numbers and hoping […]

Freight Market Trends
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The November 1 Tariffs: How New Tariff Costs Will Hit Carriers and Brokers

There’s nowhere to hide, and no, we can’t fix the policy or what’s inevitable. But we can break down the details, how it could impact you, and how you can prepare.

Broker Strategy
EKA trucking (2)

Not a Threat — An Opportunity: How to Thrive Under DOT’s Non-Domiciled CDL Crackdown

The CDL crackdown isn’t going away. But carriers that track the right numbers, do the math, and stay ahead of compliance will thrive while everyone else panics.

Broker Strategy
EKA freight market

Freight Market Update (Fall ’25): Why the Next 8 Months Will Be Tough — and What to Do Now

August rates went backward. September’s supposed bump never showed up. October is almost here, and you’re still waiting for freight to pick up like it always does this time of year.

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