A trio of forward-thinking transportation concerns–TransRisk Inc., a provider of data intelligence and financial products serving the freight sector, Nodal Exchange LLC, a regulated derivatives exchange that offers more than 1,000 electric power and natural gas contracts on hundreds of unique locations allowing market participants to hedge against price risks in the United States, and DAT Solutions, recently announced they have partnered up on a first of its kind initiative in the form of an exchange focused on trucking freight futures and options on futures contracts.