Rates continue to cool as we begin the second quarter of 2019, and detention times are coming back into focus for many carriers. We believe, in this relatively new landscape of electronic logging devices, logistics professionals will need to shift their focus to hours instead...
Tell me with whom you consort and I will tell you who you are; if I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you. ~ Goethe You know how some sayings just keep reverberating in your life? The above quote...
Here at AMT, we love books. And why not--books offer readers humor, history, escape, romance, philosophy, even recipes. Books challenge us with new or old ideas. Books enlarge our worldview and allow us to travel to foreign countries and back to medieval times. Books create...
Scientist, astronomer, and astrophysicist Carl Sagan once famously said, “There’s no such thing as a dumb question.” We agree. But we’re not talking about any questions. We’re talking about questions you can ask freight brokers, questions that will help you choose the best logistics partner....
How do you find the best freight broker? Top-notch freight brokers offer a wide variety of services to both shippers and carriers. From innovative technologies and increased resources to routing, scheduling, and long-term relationships, services offered by freight brokers are designed to streamline processes. Third party...
With the year well underway, we decided to take a look at what 2019 holds for the transportation industry. Small carriers will continue to offer capacity. Most trend lists will focus on the continuing driver shortage, but we prefer to shine a light on the possibility of...
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” Edward Abbey, Writer and environmental activist Are you operating under the assumption that bigger is always better? You’re not alone, but let’s take a minute to rethink what’s become a tired and ineffectual notion. Conventional...
A recent article in the Journal of Commerce examined the driver shortage/driver retention problem in the trucking industry. If you’re a shipper dealing with large brokers and larger carriers, the capacity crunch of 2018 made the driver shortage painfully real. And even though the driver...
The great poet, William Stafford wrote, “once you do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.” That’s a quote we live by here at AM Transport because we’ve found that doing what’s right leads to your success and ours. So what does “doing what’s...
Capacity in 2019 The first few weeks of January usually see a slowdown in the logistics business, but 2019 has been a little different. By many accounts volume has remained fairly steady even while capacity has loosened up a bit. In other words, it’s been a...