Are you tired of inconsistent and unreliable service from carriers and logistics partners or embarrassed by your current supply chain practices? Are you losing customer respect because of dropped loads and service failures or frustrated with a general lack of visibility in your supply chain?...
Predictability vs. Low rates It’s a shippers’ market, right. And in logistics, we know what that means. When spot market rates are lower than contract rates, as they are now, shippers tend to make a beeline for those low rates. It’s understandable. Like everyone else, you...
Reputation Matters Do you find it difficult to find qualified, fully-insured, reliable carriers; to negotiate reasonable rates or generate the right paperwork while tracking your shipments? And what happens when you experience last minute dropped loads, or blown tires, snow storms, or unexpected driver illnesses? How do...
"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...
How difficult is it to find qualified, fully-insured, reliable carriers; to negotiate reasonable rates, to generate the right paperwork while tracking your shipments from pick up to delivery? How hard is it to handle things like last-second dropped loads, or blown tires, snow storms, and...
Freight brokers are a dime a dozen, right? At last count, there were about 18,000 freight brokers operating in an already fragmented and constantly changing logistics landscape. But if the capacity crunch of 2018 taught shippers anything, it should be that freight brokers are invaluable...
While it’s tempting to seek to be picked by authorities and found by strangers, the more reliable path is to organize and connect those that seek to be part of a tribe, to establish better cultural norms and then persist in making promises and keeping...
Jesse Baker and Chad Martin are great friends. When they’re not working together here at AM Transport, they’re usually up to something fun, like spending the weekend at the Kentucky Derby or taking a spur-of-the-moment trip to Nashville. But lately the majority of their weekends and...
“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...
First of All: What is a Third Party Logistics Provider or 3PL? Shippers are busy people who may not have the time or staff to do the time-consuming legwork on shipments. That’s where a 3PL comes in--setting pickup and delivery appointments, finding trucks, communicating with drivers,...
