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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.

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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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Tech Is an Enabler, People Make It Work: Why the Change Management Process Matters More Than Ever

Modern TMS platforms deliver exactly what they promise: better visibility, automated workflows, and actionable intelligence. The breakdown happens in the change management process. Or more accurately, the complete absence of one.

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Tech Is an Enabler, People Make It Work: Why the Change Management Process Matters More Than Ever

Modern TMS platforms deliver exactly what they promise: better visibility, automated workflows, and actionable intelligence. The breakdown happens in the change management process. Or more accurately, the complete absence of one.

Broker Strategy
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The Human Cost of Digital Freight: How to Streamline Without Sacrificing Drivers

Here’s what’s happening under the hood: Your drivers aren’t rejecting technology — they’re rejecting being micromanaged by it. They want tools that help them do their jobs better, not systems that question their every move.

Freight Market Trends
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Balancing on the Tariff Tightrope: Strategies for Global Supply Chain Resilience

Sixty-one percent of supply chain leaders rank cross-border trade tensions as their top geopolitical risk. No kidding. But some are thinking outside of the box to fight back. It all revolves around supply chain resilience.

Freight Market Trends
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New Trucking Regulations and Their Impact on Logistics Operations

Just as freight markets were getting weird enough, the Trump administration decided April was the perfect time to crack down on English requirements for truck drivers with new trucking regulations.  The executive order sounds official enough — “Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for America’s Truck Drivers” — but the execution is messy. Drivers must now prove […]

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Asymmetric Warfare, Headless TMS & AI in Logistics: Why Agility & Intelligence Wins

Modern warfare has flipped the script on military advantage. Israel’s recent operations against Iran — a country nine times its size — demonstrated how precision trumps mass. Using coordinated drone swarms, targeted air strikes, and sophisticated intelligence networks that infiltrated the regime, Israeli forces rapidly gained strategic superiority over Iran’s much larger military apparatus and airspace. […]

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The Freight Market Midyear Update: Tariffs, Trade, and Trends

The truth? You can’t reduce freight market volatility by pretending it doesn’t exist. Those “market fundamentals” everyone talks about? They’re shifting faster than a last-minute pickup request.

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Cargo Fraud is Out of Control: What To Know and How to Mitigate Instances

Cargo fraud continues to break records. Learn the latest threats and three proven strategies to protect your freight from sophisticated criminal networks.

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Confronting Detention in Trucking: Next-Gen TMS Solutions

Detention in trucking starts ticking after that laughable “free” two-hour window most facilities give you. The problem is that nearly 40% of stops blow past that mark, and about 5% stretch beyond four hours.

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The Outcomes of Using AI in Transportation Management: Not When, But Now

Stop asking “what if” – AI in transportation management is transforming freight invoices, dashboards, and routing for logistics pros right here and now.

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