Late last year, a major carrier began a dimensional LTL pricing pilot program. This household name in logistics is only the latest to try figuring the space a shipment takes up in the back of a truck into quotes to its customers, in addition to weight and shipping speed. This pilot program is part of […]
Can you feel it in the air? 2022’s end-of-year holidays are drawing close, promising the biggest shipping volumes of the year. If you aren’t seeing an uptick yet, you will! All of us in the logistics industry understand that the most wonderful time of the year means a hell of a lot of work keeping […]
For the global supply chain, the hits just keep on coming. From the U.S.–China trade war to the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine, unprecedented disruptions to the modern, worldwide flow of goods continue to provide a steady stream of challenges to the freight industry. The result has been an epic slowdown in the […]
Among its many disruptions, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed just how fragile the global supply chain we’ve all come to rely upon really is. With ships stacking up at ports and critical components collecting dust in warehouses across the globe, pandemic-related supply-chain slowdown has affected almost every industry in the world in some way. Of course, […]