Each year, the CVSA (Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance) sponsors Operation Safe Driver Week—an initiative “aimed at improving the driving behaviors of passenger and commercial motor vehicle drivers through educational and traffic enforcement strategies and interactions with law enforcement.” This year, Operation Safe Driver Week is July...
What you need to know about logistics technology. Don’t let anyone tell you that logistics technology isn’t important. From a TMS that streamlines your processes and boosts efficiency to tracking and visibility tools that minimize late pickup and deliveries, advanced transportation technology can save logistics departments...
Are you handling your logistics in-house? Or perhaps you are allowing your customers or vendors to route your freight? If so, now’s the right time to think about working with a freight broker because you’re probably looking for a little relief. Rates are high, and most...
What makes AMT different from other freight brokers? When people ask us what makes us different from other brokers, we can answer in many different ways. First of all, we have the best logistics team in the business. Our career professionals have an average tenure of...
A good freight broker is a provider of logistics services to manufacturers, distributors, and the carriers and drivers who pickup and deliver their freight. Freight brokers do everything from finding the right carrier and scheduling pickup and delivery appointments to taking care of paperwork, tracking...
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...
A little story to set things up. Once upon a time, in a small town in southern Illinois, a group of people worked together at AM Transport Services to make sure midwestern manufacturers and distributors worked with the best small-to-midsize carriers in the logistics industry. They...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was an instant hit when it was published in 1990. I didn’t read it when it was released, but I recall my sister praising the book not long after...
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...