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2022 Small Parcel Rate Increases

3PL Insights

Small parcel rate increases for 2022 are in effect, with a few more increases and surcharges to take place before the end of the month. These investments will go toward technology, training, and modernizing the postal infrastructure. The flat-rate increases are the following: Product 2021 Price 2022 Price Small Flat-Rate Box $8.45 $9.45

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Commercial Trucker Training! Sufficient or Not?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Commercial trucker training article and permission to publish here provided by Susan Melony. This brings commercial trucker training to mind. Truck Driver Training. Someone with a driver’s license but no commercial truck driving training should never get behind the wheel of one of these behemoths. Subscribe Here!

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2023 Truckload Freight Market Report

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

We would like to share some insights on the general economy and freight market specifically with you: our customers, employees, business partners and community. How much more successful could 2022 have been had conditions been even more favorable? How much more successful could 2022 have been had conditions been even more favorable?

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Cargo Theft Continues to Rise

Logistics Viewpoints

There were 582 supply chain events reported across the United States and Canada in the second quarter of 2023, a 57 percent increase when compared to the second quarter of 2022, according to the latest CargoNet report. Train employees making certain to educate truck drivers in hijack awareness and prevention.

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What is Freight Demand Modeling?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Featuring Our Top 16 Articles on Freight and Logistics! Freight forecasting is a method of predicting what the freight market will do in the days, months, and years to come. If you want to understand the significance of freight demand modeling, you should understand a bit about the job of a freight forecaster.

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Rail as the Backbone of Sustainable Mobility

DELMIA Quintiq

With its environmental advantages, rail is answering the call in addressing challenges of sustainability, mass passenger transit and freight mobility. There is no doubt that the rail freight industry offers a sustainable alternative to highway transport, with a single freight train able to move the equivalent of over one hundred trucks.

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The Freight Talent Gap with Will Jenkins

The Logistics of Logistics

Will Jenkins and Joe Lynch discuss the freight talent gap. Will is Founder and CEO of Journey , a freight brokerage-focused recruiting, consulting, and training company. Journey is a freight brokerage-focused recruiting, consulting, and training company.

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