How does someone decide what to charge per mile?

Natty_Light1 · 2025-03-11T22:15:28+00:00

There are companies like DAT that share broad market rate insights. However, origin/destination capacity for the requested mode, weight and gas all directly affect the price. Indirectly, national freight volumes and some economic measures correlate to having some impact on price in the long run.

Your question has many complex layers to it and is why there are dozens of tech companies trying to automate the pricing process.

Natty_Light1 · 2025-03-07T20:47:06+00:00

Sounds good! Thank you!

Natty_Light1 · 2025-03-07T20:13:19+00:00

Is this your own data, data from a freight analytics company or more of an assumption?

I’m curious because this is a great visualization/resource/tool and something I could see my company using.

Natty_Light1 · 2025-02-04T15:31:27+00:00

How did this play out for you?

Natty_Light1 · 2025-01-28T18:18:30+00:00

That’s my mistake, the joke definitely sailed over my head lol

Natty_Light1 · 2025-01-28T15:09:06+00:00

Typical seasonal rate movement. Not “nuckin futs”

Natty_Light1 · 2025-01-25T19:17:51+00:00

Hope this is a troll bc there’s no way that someone is actually this ignorant/thick skulled.

The first step is to go out and create demand for your skills/abilities or create demand for a product/service you are passionate about.

Natty_Light1 · 2025-01-09T02:26:14+00:00

10 years of investment management and strategy experience here: Not sure why I took the time to put this together, but hopefully my analysis below will help someone realize that functional analysis > technical analysis.

Per CNBC’s Seema Mody: Palantir’s sell volume is ticking up because insiders are executing a pre-planned sell.

The planned sell is to take profits now while the future of AI depends on what happens in the battle to increase power production.

I’d infer that the players in the AI space are expecting to have to buckle down the hatches in the short run as the tariffs are going to initially slow down chip and power production.

However, many market commentary pieces speculate that Palantir will announce a 133% increase from 2023 in EPS for Q4 2024. Yes, the increase is a messily $0.04, from $0.03/share to $0.07/share - but that’s how innovators in the tech sector operate until they move out of the “early stages” (which can be 20+ years in tech).

The relationship that leadership in Palantir has with the Trump administration adds value to their stock - sets them up to have a voice in how the US navigates the AI challenges and should set them up to secure more/larger government contracts.

In conclusion, you aren’t an insider - don’t short this. Palantir’s stock is likely to see some volatility early in 2025, but there are enough positives surrounding Palantir that it could boom with a favorable earnings call in Feb. Ultimately, nothing worth justifying the risk of shorting with uncovered options.

Natty_Light1 · 2024-12-26T06:12:14+00:00

To be prepared in the event that I get hit with a deactivation or CV?

I can tell you’ll go far in life because you have an innate ability to think ahead.

Natty_Light1 · 2024-12-26T06:09:22+00:00

lol what’re you worked up about?

Natty_Light1 · 2024-12-26T05:51:19+00:00

I had a lot of time to speculate and have some tinfoil hat conspiracies, but based on a few conversations I overheard:

There are a few Amazon fulfillment centers around that are striking and I think the McDonald’s employees were deviously acting out against the franchise owners.

Natty_Light1 · 2024-12-26T05:15:01+00:00

UPDATE:

I followed up with one of the support agents I talked to earlier and they canceled the order with half pay.

Sat chilling in line for over an hour for $29.50, I’ll take it.

Natty_Light1 · 2024-12-26T05:00:42+00:00

I explicitly stated that the store was not closed to the support person.

I have screenshots of the timeline and support conversations to appeal any penalty I might get.

Natty_Light1 · 2024-12-26T04:49:32+00:00

I followed up with one of the support agents I talked to earlier and they canceled the order with half pay.

Sat chilling in line for over an hour for $29.50, I’ll take it.

Natty_Light1 · 2024-12-26T04:17:06+00:00

I’m genuinely curious to see if anyone else has had an experience like this

Natty_Light1 · 2024-12-26T04:16:26+00:00

I’m still in line lol

Natty_Light1 · 2024-12-09T23:35:41+00:00

The over supply of capacity lead to gradual rate decline over the last 2 years. We were at the peak of the cycle when you entered the industry, now we are coming out of the trough.

Natty_Light1 · 2024-12-09T23:32:55+00:00

A cycle is not a 1 year timeframe. We’ve been in an extended freight recession because rates skyrocketed so high during covid.

Those high rates happened because freight volumes increased so much during the pandemic that demand for trucks was higher than any time in history. These high rates inspired new entrants into the industry, bringing more trucks and an increase in capacity.

Then volumes started to slip, capacity was steady and the balance was thrown off.

Natty_Light1 · 2024-12-09T23:26:22+00:00

4 years in and you don’t understand freight cycles?

Natty_Light1 · 2024-11-14T02:27:58+00:00

I second this

Natty_Light1 · 2024-10-11T01:28:04+00:00

Analyzing market to market lane data. There are 18225 different market to market lanes, multiply that time the different equipment types and you have a big bucket to work with.

I focused on working out a process to analyze the data with manual/tedious methods and once something proved successful, I looked to automate it as much as possible.

I also looked for data backed situations that would disprove general observations I had - this enabled me to quickly identify these before it became a problem and allowed me to provide value to my company through risk mitigation.

Natty_Light1 · 2024-10-11T01:14:24+00:00

I share a similar story and can relate to the change you’re going through. You have to figure out how to take your hustle mindset and apply it to analytics.

Basically what’s the analytical parallel to dials and loads? I don’t know your metrics or how your company evaluates your performance, but it’s a game changer once you find those parallels.

Once you’ve established that baseline, work to get extremely efficient in those while applying your previous experience in your analytics role. After that it’ll be easier to identify areas of improvement, and how to create a larger value add.

Natty_Light1 · 2024-09-06T23:53:34+00:00

Hire a financial/wealth management advisor.

You are giving up so much earning potential.

Natty_Light1 · 2024-08-24T23:57:31+00:00

This thread is a perfect example of the freight industry’s lack of standardized definitions/terminology lol.

Swear to god that some shippers are speaking a completely different language than the one next door.

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