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Top Shippers by Volume

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Problem

Convoy's Business Intelligence team needs a quarterly view of shipper volume. Write a PostgreSQL query that returns the top three shippers by completed freight weight during the previous calendar quarter. For the sample data, assume the query runs on August 29, 2026, making April 1 through June 30, 2026 the previous quarter.

Requirements

  1. Join shippers to loads using shipper_id.
  2. Include only completed loads whose pickup_date falls in the previous calendar quarter.
  3. Sum weight_lbs for each shipper, return the top three, and break ties by shipper_id ascending.

Schema

shippers
ColumnTypeDescription
shipper_idPKINTEGERUnique shipper identifier
shipper_nameVARCHAR(100)Shipper company name
loads
ColumnTypeDescription
load_idPKINTEGERUnique load identifier
shipper_idINTEGERReferences shippers.shipper_id
pickup_dateDATEScheduled pickup date
statusVARCHAR(20)Operational load status
weight_lbsNUMERIC(12,2)Freight weight in pounds
Tablesshippersloads
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