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...
In the United States, May is National Bike Month, with Bike-to-Work day taking place on the third Friday. This year the national event took place on May 17th, a fine, sunny spring Friday in southern Illinois, and that’s when the AMT crew put on their...
In the logistics industry, we’re always talking about disruption. But what is it? In Deloitte’s Patterns of Disruption the authors suggest that disruption occurs when “something changes in the larger environment--technology or customer preferences or supporting infrastructure/ecosystem—to make [a] new approach possible and profitable. The...
We felt the incredible energy from the moment we walked into the Transparency19 conference center. It’s hard to describe, but even though the energy was intense, the members of the FreightWaves team, many of whom we met before breakfast, were loose and laid back. It...
Last week, I was lucky to travel to Atlanta in order to attend Transparency19, the freight industry and technology conference put on every spring by FreightWaves. Sure, the phrase industry conference is often yawn-inducing, but Transparency19 felt more like a high-energy technology meetup crossed with...
Tired of all the technology talk? Well, get used to it. Technology has leapt to the forefront of the transportation industry, and if you’re not investing time, money, and study to stay in front of the crowd, you’re inevitably going to fall off the cliff....
Transparency19, presented by the folks at FreightWaves, begins Monday, May 6 in Atlanta, Georgia. I’m looking forward to attending this year. It’s a great conference with a lineup of smart speakers and terrific demos. This year’s conference promises to cover “Innovation and digitization trends across...
Shippers are pretty happy these days. Capacity has loosened up and this gives them a little bargaining power. It’s understandable, but perhaps shortsighted to start chasing after the lowest possible rates instead of working to build strong relationships with brokers and carriers who offer consistency...
AMT’s Heath Houchin recently attended the 2019 TIA Capital Ideas Conference and Exhibition on scholarship sponsored by Avalon Risk Management. Along with five other first time attendees, Heath wrote an essay that awarded him with complimentary airfare, four nights lodging, and waived registration fees.This year,...
