Getting to yell at a 3PL would make me soooo happy. Just want to see what its like on the other side.
Im soooo fucking happy i’m not on the client side of things anymore. I still work for a freight forwarder, but I only handle airlines where i’m the client.
The shipper side is amazing. I’ve been bulldog’ing our brokers and making sure that they all know how much they suck.
I wish our american offices werent so fucking bad. our LAX office charge 500$ minimum for delivery. i mean god damn.
Sometimes you just have to laugh at the situation you are given and enjoy some bourbon before dealing with it tomorrow. Hope, the latest hurricane doesn't mess with much of anyone's operations. Hurricane Florence wrecked my work life for a couple weeks on the Ohio River, due to the water levels it caused.
Our shipping department sent out an email today saying all of our projects in the southeast are fucked this week for shipments. Luckily all my stuff is out on the west coast
Haha. Are y’all struggling with it? Not a fan? We don’t have as much usability as we’d like at the moment but we only have like 25% of our carriers onboard.
It looks good but it doesn't give alot of information. Only have a few carriers using it and if they are running late they don't have any option to put in a reason code. We've been told that they might get reason codes by Q2 2019.
Besides that does it seem like a lot of the tracking is reliable? Were y’all able to identify any loads impacted by the hurricanes through it?
It's good for tracking loads from pickup to delivery. But they sell it as alot more. I'm just starting to use it but people who have been using it for a year or more hate it.
Just found a cheap way to automate notifications to customers. May be able to eliminate half my team.
Question for you guys who work with trucks. How common are tautliner/curtainsider trailers in America/Canada? or is that mainly a european thing? I’m shipping a multi million dollar car and need one.
In February 18', I switched barge carriers for a couple lanes. I took a chance on the company as they described themselves as "the biggest of the small" for barge carriers, so winning these two lanes was a pretty big deal to them revenue-wise. Everything went great all year long...absolutely zero complaints from them about any struggles that they were having on any issue/nor did I really have any issues with them. Sent out an RFP to barge vendors as the contracts end in at the end of March and I got a response from this newer carrier that they were going to be asking for an increase in rates....which is no surprise to me and am certain we'll be able to work it out. So, I scheduled a phone call about a week out to discuss it. We have this call and these motherfuckers tell me that they haven't made $1 on the account all year long (complete bullshit) and the rates that they give me to continue on is a 288% increase. 288%. I still can't believe it. So, they obviously have no desire to continue on and that's their way of saying it. It's amazing how my opinion of them flipped upside down on that one call...ruined an entire year of great working relationship between the two companies. Their VP of Operations slipped up once during the conversation...where the party line was that they were making no money (again bullshit) and that they had agreed to lease half of their barge capacity to a new account and it was going to cause them issues.
So basically they took on a huge account and can’t handle both unless you basically buy them a new barge or 3
Decent LTL service if you need national coverage instead of regional/super-regional carriers for coverage without paying Old Dominion money. Working out a redline with them was one of the most painful contracting experiences of my professional life though
I'm sure I've said this before, but I love this thread and simultaneously know not one fucking thing about the business.
We’re constantly mad about everything and don’t take bullshit. See below: I’m shipping heavy machinery and they are terrible. Doesn’t matter where in the country I’m going, it’s consistently damaged or very late and that even with priority. And before anyone capes for their bullshit the damage is their fault. They take our shit out of the crates/skids we put them on and throw them on the floor of the truck
Never found a good LTL carrier. They are good in different regions but So & So will hate ABC Carrier in the Northeast, but So & So likes to use them in the SouthEast. Huge pain in the ass. Never ship LTL if delivery time is important. Always find that something will happen along the way to delay it.
Yup. I've instructed the person that handles the packaged product in our region to just book a full truck load if delivery is important/it's a couple pallets or more. The savings is not that crazy and you avoid so much damage/lost product.
The sad thing is, the stuff wasn’t even time important until they were so late. I had several loads leaving Ohio destined for California. Two weeks later, still in Chicago. Or it would get to the local terminal, and sit there for a week until you said something
That's LTL for you. Some of the carriers....I believe R+L is one, offer a locked in delivery for a higher rate but I've learned that doesn't really change anything .
The Corp of Engineers shut down the Cheatham Lock on the Cumberland River today due to flooding.. essentially stopping all barge traffic to Nashville. It is supposed to be shut down for 30-45 days. Terrible.