If you're like many small to midsize manufacturers or distributors, you're wary of outsourcing your logistics services. It makes sense. After all, it's the way you've always done things, and it works. Even though lately, you've been noticing that things aren't working quite as well...
Monday morning, trucking giant, Celadon group, filed for bankruptcy and announced the closing of the Indianapolis-based trucking firm. FreightWaves reports that Celadon is the largest truckload carrier to file bankruptcy in history. It’s a staggering closing, just weeks before Christmas with nearly 4000 employees put...
Should you outsource logistics? Roughly 71% of goods in the United States are moved by trucks. And while a company’s freight spend is often one of its largest budget items, supply chain rarely has a seat at the table. Logistics departments are often understaffed and suffer...
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...
Rate Shopping and Capacity Rates were high and capacity was tight in 2018. So much so, that shippers spent a lot of time and effort towards creating beneficial relationships with carriers. In the ever-shifting landscape of logistics, we all know that relationships can help both shippers...
Summer is quickly coming to an end, but here at AMT, the book recommendations keep coming. Reading is an important aspect of the culture around here. In fact, we recently finished reading Jim Collins’ Good to Great, and held two informative and fun book discussion...
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...
What are managed freight services? Managed freight is a service in which a shipper or manufacturer works with a logistics team that manages the full spectrum of a company’s day-to-day shipping needs in order to streamline the supply chain. Logistics managers help customers save time and reduce...
The importance of a Transportation Management System or TMS You can’t pick up a logistics magazine or go to a transportation news website without finding a variety of articles on transportation management systems (TMS) and the differences in design. After all, many of these articles are...
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...