Transportation Insight, LLC

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.

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.

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.