3PL Systems
Transportation Management Made Easy
Let me paint you a picture. You’re in your office – maybe it’s a home office, maybe you have a business location with a handful of team members, or you’re big enough for a full scale office building. Regardless, you’re at the office, and …
One of the main reasons your customers choose to outsource their freight shipping is because they can’t get the same rates or deals that you can for shipments. In addition to that, they place their trust in your business that you can …
When you’re managing a business that operates primarily with Less-Than-Truckload shipments (LTL), you’ve already got a lot on your plate to manage multiple shipments. From finding them, handling documentation, providing quotes, booking the …
A transportation management system is more than just a piece of software that lets you manage all of your shipments in one place. It’s a way to streamline your logistics company. It allows you to be more efficient, more effective, and …
Freight brokerage isn’t what it used to be — thankfully, neither is freight brokerage software. One major thing that has changed is simply the way the term “broker” is used. I’ve seen how a lot of shippers refer to brokers, especially in …
A Transportation Management System is an integral part of the freight brokerage business. More often than not, a good TMS is the deciding factor of who wins and who loses in this industry. Tools have been essential to humanity since the …
Starting a freight brokerage business can certainly seem like a mountain of a task—and it is. Look, I’m not going to pretend that starting and running your own business is simple, straightforward, or in any way easy. It’s hard. It takes …
In the Less-Than-Truckload world, businesses succeed on razor thin margins. As Jeff Bezos once said, “Your margin is my opportunity.” To prevent your competitors from seizing the opportunities in your margins, you need an efficient, …
Roadrunner Transportation has been in the news lately due to their need to restate their financial statements for their quarterly earnings as far back as 2014. They’re investigating errors in unreconciled balance sheets, as well as issues …
Modern trucking software (known as TMS software in the industry, or Transportation Management System software) has come a long way in the last few decades. One of the most important features that’s been added into every quality piece of TMS …
Let’s talk about how to be a freight broker who has carriers and shippers alike beating down their door for business. It’s an unfortunate truth of our industry that quality can vary widely from one freight broker to the next. It’s not …
2017 is less than two short weeks away – and third party logistics is facing a potentially transformative year. A new president always has an impact on the economy, especially the first year, and there are major technological changes on the …
Becoming a freight broker isn’t actually the easiest thing in the world. There’s quite a few steps – and quite a few things you need to watch out for or be aware of. There’s plenty of (excellent) guides on the basic steps to becoming …
Human beings invented computers to make complex mathematical calculations simpler — software has always been a natural evolution of this original purpose, and a TMS (transportation management system) is no different. The goal of TMS …