by IntelliTrans | May 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
2018 – the year of the capacity crunch – has been a challenging year for freight shippers. Not only have they faced significant upward cost pressure, but also declines in service. And, these market dynamics likely won’t let up anytime soon as new and...
by IntelliTrans | Feb 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Partnership Develop relationships. One of the most important things you can do is to build a relationship with your railroad partners. Do the carriers consider you a customer or a partner? Encouraging the rail carriers to view you as a partner is helpful to a...
by IntelliTrans | May 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Freight Brokers Within the transportation marketplace, brokers provide a myriad of services. Brokers fill the gaps between shippers, owner-operators, and draymen. Brokers also assist shippers and trucking companies with resource and technology-constraints. In...
by IntelliTrans | Sep 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Challenge The trucking industry loses an estimated $1.3 billion a year waiting at customer facilities to pick up or deliver cargo. One of the top reasons for driver turnover is wasted time sitting at warehouse docks; for truckers who get paid by the...
by IntelliTrans | Jun 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Transportation is a primary cost driver for many companies. Research from Accenture shows that transportation represents “upwards of $30-$60 million for every $1 billion in material cost for product-based companies”. Besides the enormity of transportation...
by IntelliTrans | Mar 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
WHAT’S ICARGO? A project where IntelliTrans and other partners are helping to build an open, affordable information architecture that allows real world objects, existing systems, and new applications to efficiently co-operate, enabling more cost effective and...
