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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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This post is going to be short, sweet and to the point. I love what a good freight audit company can do for a shipper! These firms usually can process invoices way more effectively than a shipper can on their own. In addition, some of these firms can output metrics and business intelligence that can [...]
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Its no doubt the hot trend for manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and distributors is to scale out their supply chain. Companies are smartly realizing that profits are directly tied to operational excellence, so capturing this ideal is becoming a necessity. So while companies allocate funds for the hiring of the proper talent, I thought it would [...]
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One question I get a lot is about the time frame in which a carrier has to invoice a shipper. Shippers get surprised when a freight invoice pops up twelve months after a shipment was executed and they feel there might be some clause that gets them off the hook. Well, I’m here to burst [...]
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I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed a company that didn’t have a huge disconnect between sales and operations. But this week the gap widened to an all time record at one company I visited when a senior operations manager loudly and almost proudly proclaimed in his office, “Our sales people are idiots!”
After he uttered this [...]
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