New England Motor Freight’s February 11th announcement of bankruptcy sent shockwaves through the transportation industry. An LTL carrier based in Elizabeth, New Jersey, NEMF served the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic area with over 40 terminals. How does this story pertain to small carriers? What happened to this...
With the year well underway, we decided to take a look at what 2019 holds for the transportation industry. Small carriers will continue to offer capacity. Most trend lists will focus on the continuing driver shortage, but we prefer to shine a light on the possibility of...
A recent article in the Journal of Commerce examined the driver shortage/driver retention problem in the trucking industry. If you’re a shipper dealing with large brokers and larger carriers, the capacity crunch of 2018 made the driver shortage painfully real. And even though the driver...
What freight services do you offer? It’s a question we’re asked a lot, here at AM Transport Services. So we thought we’d break it down for you. Think you might enjoy the video version of this blog more? Click here to check it out! But first, what do we...
The great poet, William Stafford wrote, “once you do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.” That’s a quote we live by here at AM Transport because we’ve found that doing what’s right leads to your success and ours. So what does “doing what’s...
The beginning of a new year is a great time to get back to the basics. Here on the AMT blog, we’ve been exploring freight rates, zoning in on the differences between instant and accurate rates, as well as, how we come up with our...
How do you come up with truckload rates? It’s the number one question we’re asked here at AM Transport Services. Here’s the funny thing--most folks who ask how we get our truckload rates don’t really expect an answer, thinking it might be a company secret. And...
Capacity in 2019 The first few weeks of January usually see a slowdown in the logistics business, but 2019 has been a little different. By many accounts volume has remained fairly steady even while capacity has loosened up a bit. In other words, it’s been a...
Do you offer instant truckload freight quotes? That’s a question we hear a lot at AM Transport. The short answer is NO, we don’t offer instant rates, and we wouldn’t want to. You see, competitive truckload quotes depend on a variety of factors, but most importantly...
With 2018 in the history books what can we expect moving forward into 2019. Probably more of the same--more technological advances, new changes in regulations, and continuing driver shortage and/or driver retention issues. In 2018, these factors created a a capacity crunch, with reliable carriers...
