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Mexico Transportation Risk with Mark Vickers

The Logistics of Logistics

Mark spent over 7 years in leadership with the second largest freight brokerage in North America, Total Quality Logistics. One hundred percent of our customers are in trucking and logistics including ~10,000 motor carriers and ~800 freight brokers. During his tenure, they went from $500M to $3B in sales. The Greenscreens.ai

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Examples of How Supplier Quality Management System Implementations Pay Off

GlobalTranz

As the world is more distributed and players within the supply chain in transportation, manufacturing, and distribution are varied, applying a supplier quality management system in your business may allow you to stay more strategic and collaborative. Examples and Case Studies from the Implementation of a Supplier Quality Management System.

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Freight Market Update and Q2 Trucking Outlook

Zipline Logistics

Following an unprecedented downturn, the freight market has posted an almost full calendar year of impressive growth spurred by demand from a few sectors of the domestic economy. The second half of the past quarter was highly atypical and posted freight volumes that vastly exceeded those generally seen during peak season.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

On the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, where the remains of a 200-year-old canal built to connect Cleveland with Cincinnati snake around new warehouse parks, a modern tributary of the global economy widens a little more with each planeload of goods that roars down its runways. International freight being unloaded at Rickenbacker airport.

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Truck maker plans to layoff 2,000 workers in the US, Mexico

Freight Waves

Related: Layoff wave hits freight sector as nearly 9,000 jobs slashed The layoffs in North Carolina include 546 employees from a manufacturing plant in Mount Holly, and 27 workers from a components and logistics site in Gastonia, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice.

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Allentown gains traction as freight hub

DAT Solutions

Allentown, PA, was once a major manufacturing town, but it has emerged more recently as a popular location for warehouses and distribution centers, especially at this time of year. With its distribution centers and access to multiple freight corridors, Allentown was exceptionally busy for a short holiday week. Allentown to Boston : $3.96/mile,

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Load Volume and Rates Move in Opposite Directions

DAT Solutions

FREIGHT RATES. Along with our standalone freight rates tool DAT RateView, all DAT load board packages include broker spot market rates on the lanes you're searching. The economy seems relatively stable, even though some types of manufacturing are lagging now. Rates should turn around soon, if seasonal patterns repeat this year.

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