Here’s a nice study from MIT students on choosing a portfolio of trucking companies to carry your goods. I’m not sure it reveals much revolutionary, but the analytic methods are solid and confirm some basic intuition about the situation.
http://supplychainmit.com/2017/07/20/which-carriers-should-you-use/
Link which you shared is informative which nicely mentioned the research on the carriers and logistics attributes.
Multi-Carrier Shipping Software
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