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You may be too busy to hear the recent podcast I did with Todd Polen at Old Dominion Freight Line. To help spare you some time, I took the liberty of capturing the highlights for you. I finally had the time myself to listen […]

Most if not all LTL carriers today have an ESG program. Their customers, their stockholders, and their employees expect carriers to have plans for Environmental, Social, and Governance factors. Further, it just makes good business sense. Let’s take a look at the E […]

16.  Select Carriers Based Upon Total Net Costs It is too easy for LTL shippers to think of the carrier invoice as the total cost of transportation. If the LTL carrier charged me $300 for shipping that pallet from Point A to […]

Below are the individual LTL carrier recaps I provided for all publicly-traded LTL carriers following their 1Q23 earnings releases.  Note that FedEx Freight uses a non-standard fiscal calendar and reports their earnings one month in advance of other carriers.   […]

As a follow up to the individual carrier recaps I have provided on LinkedIn, I thought I would wrap things up with an overall recap.  The 9 publicly-traded LTL carriers I profiled make up about 2/3 of the LTL industry […]

Most if not all LTL carriers took general rate increases in late 2022 or early 2023.  As part of their increase process, they also update and make adjustments to their rules tariffs.  One area of focus over the last few […]

15. Choose The Right Carrier(s) To Match Your Needs After a bit of a hiatus, we are back to wrap up the remaining 8 of 22 ways to reduce LTL costs that do not involve a price reduction. The timing […]

  Consolidate Shipments My last article, part 13 of 22 ways to reduce LTL costs that don’t involve a price reduction, dealt with holding shipments at origin to build pickup density.  That is a strategy which just about any shipper, […]

  13. Hold Shipments To Increase Shipments Picked Up After a bit of a hiatus, I am back to wrap up the rest of the “22 Ways To Reduce LTL Costs That Don’t Involve a Price Reduction”. The year 2022 […]

  The Mixed Commodity Rule Item 640 in the NMFC is a beast of an item.  It is not only long and complicated, but it is also unfair to carriers in many cases and incredibly punitive to shippers in other […]