3 Surprising Freight Service Offerings You Need 

You’ve been working with third-party logistics (3PL) providers or freight brokers for years now. Since the late 80s, 3PLs have helped manufacturers and distributors when capacity gets tight or when a shipper has a hot load that needed to be delivered yesterday. These aren’t real partnerships, but rather tactical relationships based on lane costs. These transactional arrangements are focused on basic lane coverage and they’ve probably worked well for you and your business

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).