We also don't really shop for freight. We have regularly scheduled, contracted rate loads and then some random LTL loads. The vast majority of our shipments are small package.
Easy way to get off that list is to tell them it’s the wrong number when they ask and ask to be removed from the call list. I finally did this after getting calls for a year after I transitioned into sales and it finally got them to stop.
Nice bump. Fuck logistics. Supposed to get an offer letter today to go back to oil and gas. Fucking fuck logistics.
They are about 2-3 years old and stole some talent from Echo and Coyote. I believe they took one of Coyote's top tech guys to help design and build their own proprietary brokerage software. They seem like Coyote Light from everything I've read about then. It's interesting how they started up, as they were created by a shipper. We awarded them a very small amount of freight for one of our managed accounts recently, but there hasn't been any execution yet.
I do some work with XPO in Tampa. only because my own office there is fucking garbage. let that sink in for a while. thats my only broker knowledge and totally unrelated, but fuck it now you guys know.
Somewhat related, I get calls and emails from multiple upfitting and interior storage system vendors every week. Every week I tell them we have incredibly stringent procurement laws/policies, and it’s not appropriate for me to talk to them. And yet the calls and emails continue.
Visited the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics today to take my final exam for their micro master's program. Holy shit at how hard the exam was, but the campus is beautiful. This finally wraps up the online classes I've taken since Nov 2016. It's very affordable ($1200 total for 5 classes + capstone exam)... I would highly recommend it.
https://www.edx.org/micromasters/mitx-supply-chain-management You can take the classes for free if you just want the knowledge and materials but no credential. Looks nice to put MIT on your resume though. Once you finish it you can apply to their on campus master's and complete it in one semester.
Depends on how much you want to put into it. I did fairly well, ~90% avg across the courses. Most weeks (weekends) I put in 5-12 hrs, but there also were some weeks where I skipped the lectures, just did the graded assignments and moved on. I have put in some number of hours of work almost every week since Nov 2016. There's usually only 1-2 weeks max between course runs.
Thanks. I'm travelling with my VP this week (meeting with potential new barge carrier in St. Louis) and may bring this up. I want to investigate it a bit as I'm sure the answer would be "You should do it and we will pay for it".
The Ohio River flooding has really fucked up my supply chain. The water is the highest it's been in 20 years. A view from where our Cincinnati facility....the long walk way ends where we unload barges. You can see the trees in the river...that is normally river bank.
Hi, yes, I’m new here. Just took a position that will require me to hire, train, and manage 30 centralized, in-house dispatchers for our 30+ facilities across the midwest and east coast.
Blood pressure was 150/90 today at my physical... never been higher than 115/75 until I took over my own DC seven months ago. I should have been an accountant.
Wow, I could make this same post, and I was an accounting major. Now I run a DC, drink 5 espresso shots to start each day and 5 cups throughout, blood pressure through the roof and I’m basically the 1-800 hotline for every hot shipment 24/7. I keep telling myself I have to do it for a couple years or I wouldn’t have the necessary ops experience to get future roles.
Everyone stealing talent from echo. They keep increasing workload without increasing pay for non sales, and made it so sales can waste am's time with small crap orders.
Hello friends, I am leaving logistics because fuck logistics and truckers in general and I couldn't be more ready after 11 years of bullshit. God bless
Went from managing a fleet for a Florida state agency to working for the state agency that oversees all other state agency fleets. Bout to begin a telematics pilot. Should be fun/a disaster.
I just started managing about 180,000 shipments and $90m in freight spend. Mainly LTL, truckload, and bulk tanker. In this market
The river levels are still real high in the Midwest and royally fucking with all barge operations. Completly fucking my supply chain going into the busy season. Can't catch a break with the weather in 2018 so far.
It's a month before the official start of the busy season for us, and we are already out of storage space in the warehouse. Maybe, just maybe, doing an internal reorganization of the business units, doing online customer orders, AND going with a different method of inventorying warehouse storage space shouldn't have all been done at the same time.
If you are going to fuck it up why not fuck it ALL up so then you can' never get to the root of the problem.
Warehouse I use to work at recently changed how they kept inventory I forget what the change was but it basically made everything "Hot" for the production line. Expedite costs shot through the roof the first 2 months of the year. Glad I am not in that office anymore.
So there was a fantastic sign off email sent by a chick that got fired from my previous employer (Coyote Logistics)... she sent it to the entire HQ which is around 1500-2000 people. This morning it showed up on barstool. Enjoy! https://www.barstoolsports.com/chic...ng-fired/?_branch_match_id=524902234737417699
HAHA thats greats. Just gave my Coyote Rep a earful. They've been giving me the run around for 2 days on a load.
We’re in charge of the gumball transport. chartering an antonov 225. i wonder what the cost of entering a car in gumball is because that shit wont be cheap.
On the 2nd week at my new job. I’m working as a transportation project manager for a large food manufacturer... way more laid back than the service provider side from my experience. This place is a ghost town at 4:00
I’ve been working roughly 7:45am to 5:30pm every day. The lights are usually off in my area both coming and going, and I’m being asked if I have started living at the office.