Consumer Goods Logistics Blog

OK, it's time for some straight talk on freight rates and carrier metrics. Remember when you were a kid and you did really well on a big test? Let's say you got 97%. Chances are the paper had a few gold stars from the teacher. Maybe even a ...

This is a story about carriers collaborating to improve freight capacity at a good rate.  

To offset the tightening of capacity in the transportation industry, a growing number of shippers have been developing real relationships with asset based carriers.  Shippers are beginning to move from a traditional lane-based transactional...

The FMCSA wants a safer trucking industry.  But new driver hours of service rules, effective July 1, are an impractical means to this end goal.  To understand why, let's first examine the rules currently in place.