This checklist outlines how shippers can evaluate and award RFP bids more effectively amid tight truck capacity and rising cost pressures. With equipment backlogs, high fuel prices, and labor shortages constraining capacity, the guide emphasizes the importance of using data rather than intuition when selecting carriers and brokers. It presents a four-part approach that leverages historical rates, current market conditions, future capacity insights, and performance analytics. By taking a comprehensive, data-driven view of past, present, and projected conditions, shippers can strengthen their negotiating position, manage risk, contain costs, and award contracts with rates that remain sustainable throughout the contract lifecycle.

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