02 Sep Truck Driving Facts for Labor Day
Labor Day is a great time to honor the great women and men who work in the trucking industry....
14 May Case Study: Facilitated Collaboration
A logistics company’s most important job is to collaborate. The ability to work with others and to bring the right folks together are what separate the great freight brokers from their merely good or adequate competitors. Collaboration is exactly what makes the third party logistics...
21 Mar Is There Really a Driver Shortage?
Has your shipping department been affected by the driver shortage? How many times has a transportation partner complained that their trucks are empty? That your freight spend is going to reflect this shortage? It’s the dominant narrative in the industry, and if it’s keeping you...
26 Feb 5 Things to Consider When Choosing a TMS
A Transportation Management System (TMS) Is A Necessity. In an industry where data flows are increasing at a rapid pace it’s nearly impossible to understand your logistics operation without a TMS. The days of collecting data over a long period, and then taking a few weeks...
20 Feb Hoop Dreams: Jesse Baker and Chad Martin
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...
12 Feb Better Not Bigger
Posted at 18:59h
in 3PL, Best Practices, Customer Service, Shippers, Third-Party Logistics, Transportation
“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...
07 Feb Tracking and Visibility: The Bigger Picture
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in 3PL, Best Practices, Customer Service, GPS, Technology, Transportation, Trucking
Tracking and visibility in transportation is a hot topic. Recent news concerning the misuse of cellphone-based tracking has people scrambling. How can the logistics industry, where tracking and visibility is inherent to the best service, deal with upheavals caused by misuse, as well as, an...
27 Nov Technology, Transportation, and 3PL Technovations
I was excited to attend the first-ever 3PL Technovations hosted by the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA). The two-day event was held November 6-7 in Tucson, Arizona, at the Marriott Starr Pass Resort. Great venue. Technology and the 4th Industrial Revolution. And Tuesday morning’s opening speaker, Kurt...
15 Nov Happy Veterans Day
Posted at 14:18h
in Customer Service, Leadership, Meet the Team, Third-Party Logistics, Transportation
A recent article in Supply Chain Dive got us thinking about veterans in the transportation industry. Barry Hochfelder writes about the service people in World War II: The men and women who — without computer aid — arranged for 6,939 ships, 11,590 aircraft, 156,000 troops,...
20 Sep What Do Drivers Want?
Did you celebrate National Truck Driver Appreciation Week by thanking a driver? Here at AMT, we sure hope so because drivers and their commitment to the open road are the heart of a bustling economy. We thought we'd continue the Thank a Driver trend this week by...
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