By Richard Romando
Freight brokers are described quite simply as people who bridge the gap between a shipper (those that will need to transport goods) and a licensed and reliable logistics provider, in this case, truckers.
Categorically, freight brokers are called transportation intermediaries. In other words, they are the middle men who ensure a shipper gets reliable [...]
By Lance Winslow
What many may not realize is that Emery Express was also a CF Company. You see John C. Emery, Sr. founded Emery Air Freight in 1946, when his company became the first air freight forwarder to apply for a common carrier license from the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). While Emery envisioned his company [...]
By Gertrude Sayzer
Fittipaldi Logistics, Inc., the market leader in software development focusing on the freight transportation industry, announced that Commodity Express Transportation, which is a wholly owned affiliate of Fittipaldi Carriers, Inc., the Company’s trucking arm, has selected the patented Global Locating System (GLS) asset tracking technology from SkyBitz for the trailers in its local [...]
By Peter Kopitz
Most businesses, especially small companies or villages in rural locations, don’t have the know-how, or can’t afford to manage a complex supply chain of the scale and scope of the larger local and international industry players on their own.
They need support on how to get in touch with suppliers, buy raw materials in [...]
By Oswald Eppers
Under the LOGCAP program, the contractor is responsible for providing a “full spectrum” of services to U.S. troops in the field, including dining facilities, living quarters, base camp operations and maintenance, facilities management, transportation and distribution of supplies, water and ice, laundry and bath, airfield operations, detainee camp construction, and firefighting [1]. “LOGCAP” [...]
By Lance Winslow
When the margins get tough, efficiencies are crucial. Whether in airlines, fighting a war or maximizing company and logistical assets.
Problem is efficiency are common and occasional quite frustrating to the Airline Industry, it is a matter of survival, literally. Let us take the “Quick Change Concept” for Commercial Aviation. Recently in Dayton OH [...]
By George Whitecraft
Imagine that the view you have is of the earth’s surface, like a
Google satellite map, and with a single click you can zoom in to
any portion of the world where you have logistics or resupply
responsibilities. A single click and you can instantly obtain an
accurate logistics situational assessment of a broad,
wide-ranging area.
Click again and [...]
By Lance Winslow
Is it possible to use tunneling robots to attack the enemy and protect our troops while in combat in urban settings? That is to say to tunnel under an insurgent, an enemy or an international terrorist’s location and then attack. Sure one would suppose that anything is indeed possible right? But can we [...]
By Dylan Brent
In this modern world of logistics, technology and big business, crate rental has become an important and useful factor to provide easy packaging, handling, shipping and logistics of industries, businesses and sectors. Using crates supplies a no fuss, efficient, convenient and generally secure method of transportation for almost any thing. No longer are [...]
By Michael Russell
When people go into a grocery store or some kind of retail outlet there are many factors that go into their decision on whether they buy a particular item or whether they decide to go to a competitor’s store. Some of the most important factors in a consumer’s mind are price, customer [...]
