Roughly 71% of goods in the United States are moved by trucks. And while a company’s freight spend is often one of its largest budget items, supply chain rarely has a seat at the table. Logistics departments are often understaffed and suffer from high turnover which means that employees have limited transportation knowledge. And that’s a problem because logistics get more complicated and expensive every day. Some experts believe that a manufacturer’s best bet is to outsource logistics operations to a premium provider of Logistics as a Service (LaaS).