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Rail

What Can a Company Do if Freight is Eating Away Profits?

by George Muha on March 25, 2012

Recently I wrote an article titled Knowing How Freight Relates as a Percentage of Invoice.  That article might have hit home for some companies because, believe it or not, many companies have no freaking idea how freight relates as a percentage of invoice.  Nor do they know what to do even if they did know [...]

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Knowing How Freight Relates as a Precentage of Invoice

by George Muha March 18, 2012

Some popular business sayings that are relevant today are “companies don’t know what they don’t know”, “knowledge is power” and “you cannot manage what you cannot measure”.  Despite the fact that many executives agree with these quotes and can even be heard saying them, most do not utilize this methodology where it counts the most…within [...]

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New Hours of Service Rules to Keep Roads Safe

by George Muha January 20, 2012

In an effort to keep our roads safe from sleepy truck drivers the US Government is making changes to the hours of service rules.  On December 22, 2011 the Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced regulations that mandate a new limit on the hours per week truck drivers can [...]

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Rail, The Other White Meat

by George Muha January 17, 2012

A great alternative to consider when trying to reduce overall transportation costs is rail.  A rail provider can come to your facility and pick up your load just like a truckload carrier.  The difference is for the line haul portion of trip, your shipment is moving via rail road. The down side of using rail [...]

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