24 Aug You Can Be a Shipper of Choice
The best way to ensure you are working with the best carriers in the business is to make sure they see you as a shipper of choice....
17 Aug 4 Problems To Avoid with Your Logistics Providers
Lots can go wrong when you have freight to get out to your customers. Find out what you can do to avoid some common mistakes....
27 Apr What you need for an accurate freight quote.
Do you need a freight quote? Chances are when you are looking for an accurate freight quote, you don’t have a lot of time. And I’m guessing, you’ve been surprised, more than once, by the difference between the final invoice and the quoted rate. Here at AM...
15 Apr Become a Shipper of Choice in Five Easy Steps
The freight market is tight. Consumer spending is relatively strong and the pandemic trend to purchase goods over services continues while a truck driver shortage adds to a lack of capacity. At the same time, freight spending is up and according to the most recent...
25 Mar Is Your Logistics Plan Missing this Word?
Yet Seth Godin posts a blog every day, and as a subscriber I receive it in my inbox every day. Some days it’s long and full of thought-provoking ideas and other days it’s short and pithy. Like most daily blogs, I don’t always read it. It...
21 Jan Job Site Deliveries: People Make the Difference
You remember Big Digital? They’ve been on the scene for a while. They tout technology (Big Digital is an app), low prices (because they aren’t paying real people to keep track of your freight), and ease of use (you can access them on your phone,...
17 Nov How to find the best broker and still enjoy that candy bar.
A New Candy Bar Scenario You remember Merle, our comfortable gray-haired friend with a taste for candy bars. Back when we last visited Merle, he was leaving his office every day at 3:00, plodding down the stairs from his second-floor office, and heading to the gas...
10 Nov Why Logistics Managers Like Working with Freight Brokers
Logistics Managers With more than 17,000 freight brokers currently working in the United States, you’d think it would be easy to find one to match your needs. But the truth is if you’re a logistics manager, you’re busy. You are tendering loads, chasing trucks, picking up...
27 Oct Lead Time = Lower Rates
Lead Time and Lower Rates You can’t fix what you don’t know, right? Take the case of a customer we’ll call Martin. We visited Martin, a logistics manager at a small manufacturer in the upper midwest, a couple of weeks ago. Tall, with a shock of...
