Most people would agree that when measuring service levels, we’re taking into account both the efficiency and performance of any system--and in the transportation business, often more than a few services are required. These services range from tracking and visibility and worry-free scheduling to truckload...
Don’t be lulled by loose capacity and lower freight rates. Aim for a predictable freight budget instead. 2018, was a year of change, fluctuations, and rising contract rates. In fact, according to The Journal of Commerce, truckload rates climbed between 10 percent and 15 percent in...
Logistics as a Service In logistics, changes occur daily. It’s exciting, yes, but rapid shifts and reversals can leave even seasoned veterans overwhelmed. No one understands this better than manufacturers and suppliers who must continually navigate the near-constant upheavals these changes bring to the consistency and...
What is a freight broker or a 3PL (third party logistics) provider? For the most part, the terms are interchangeable--both work as intermediaries between a shipper and a trucking company. Since deregulation, the number of freight brokers has skyrocketed. Today there are nearly 18,000 registered freight...
Big news--181 CEOs of the largest corporations in the US just signed a new statement of corporate purpose, turning the old model of shareholder primacy on its head. For years, corporations have operated under Milton Friedman’s idea that “there is only one social responsibility of...
Do you need a 3PL? Are you frustrated by a lack of visibility in your supply chain and exhausted by trying to track trucks down or scurrying after dropped loads? Are you worried about excessive liabilities because you’re sourcing carriers and negotiating contracts yourself? Are you...
The Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate has been in effect for a while--with a soft enforcement in December 2017 and a hard enforcement in April 2018. In the months and days approaching the rule’s enforcement there were many predictions of doom and constricted capacity, and...
Digital freight matching--is it really the way of the future as we’ve been lead to believe? Many products have added the ubiquitous “digital” as a prefix, and these new digital products are often much better than their non-digital predecessors. It follows that digital freight matching...
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...
"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...
