What happened to spring? Already it’s the middle of June, and while it’s been a little rainy, we are well into the summer vacation season. The city pool has been open for a few weeks, air conditioners hum behind houses, and you can’t take a...
What do continuing driver shortages, autonomous vehicles, and the promise of block chain have in common with the new Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse , changing regulations, and the explosion of data in logistics? In a word, disruption.Disruption is the name of...
"Here's how to guarantee you have a good day: do good things." ~The Daily Stoic Last July, John “Moose” McKinney began spending half his work day volunteering for the Katharina and Minnie Weber Long Term Care Unit at Carle Richland Memorial Hospital. It was bound to...
In the United States, May is National Bike Month, with Bike-to-Work day taking place on the third Friday. This year the national event took place on May 17th, a fine, sunny spring Friday in southern Illinois, and that’s when the AMT crew put on their...
Last week, Dave Marquart, who began at AM Transport a whopping 26 years ago, retired. When Dave began his long tenure at AMT, we had three desks in an old cabin on Vernor Lake in Olney, Illinois. Since then we’ve moved into different locations and...
A logistics company’s most important job is to collaborate. The ability to work with others and to bring the right folks together are what separate the great freight brokers from their merely good or adequate competitors. Collaboration is exactly what makes the third party logistics...
Where do you find some of the best, most innovative manufacturers in the state of Illinois? At the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association Business Day 2019, of course. This years' event was held on May 1, at the Doubletree Hilton in Springfield. And AMT’s Heath Houchin was...
Have you heard about the Spotted Lanternfly infestation in southeast Pennsylvania? The insect is a planthopper from China, India, and Vietnam, first discovered in Berks County, Pennsylvania, but has spread to other counties since. The Spotted Lanternfly has the potential to do harm to the...
AMT’s Heath Houchin recently attended the 2019 TIA Capital Ideas Conference and Exhibition on scholarship sponsored by Avalon Risk Management. Along with five other first time attendees, Heath wrote an essay that awarded him with complimentary airfare, four nights lodging, and waived registration fees.This year,...
How difficult is it to find qualified, fully-insured, reliable carriers; to negotiate reasonable rates, to generate the right paperwork while tracking your shipments from pick up to delivery? How hard is it to handle things like last-second dropped loads, or blown tires, snow storms, and...
