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...
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...
Who's Sally? So it’s been a pretty nice autumn, right. And the past couple of weekends have been really beautiful with warm, sunny Saturdays that just make you want to get outside. At least that’s how one of our team members (I’m going to call her...
The art of listening. The folks in our sales department are great listeners. And that’s a big deal because when you think about it, how often does your freight broker really listen? According to Kate Murphy in You’re Not Listening, “Listening is active. The best listeners focus...
It’s been a little over five years since the last episode of Late Show with David Letterman aired in May 2015. And during the last episode of the long running show, a group of 9 funny people (plus Peyton Manning) delivered the last ever Top...
Is Your Contract Rate too Low? JoAnne is a logistics manager for a midsize midwestern manufacturer. She’s been in logistics for a few years, so the ups and downs of the freight market aren’t new to her. But things are tough these days. Her regular contract rate...
Outsourced Logistics Here at AMT, we have lots of great customers we’ve been working with for a long time. That’s how it is when you’ve been in the business for 30 years. But what we really like to do is to figure out problems and create solutions...
Roadcheck = Less Capacity Be prepared for a tightening of capacity during the week beginning September, as this year’s International Roadcheck is scheduled for September 9-11. The three day blitz will most definitely result in a decrease in capacity with inspectors focusing on “the driver requirements...
Outsourced Logistics--We're Just Better Here at AM Transport, we live by the motto: BETTER not bigger. We know that in the logistics arena, having a smaller, more agile team translates into big benefits for you when you outsource your logistics to us. We start with relationships. We focus on getting...
