Perhaps one of the biggest challenges for any haulage and distribution company is how to go about reducing costs. The real difficulty is not so much reducing freight costs as that is pretty easy. The greatest difficulty comes with reducing the cost of your freight logistics whilst at the same time ensuring that your customers … Read more…
Cost Effective Logistics Without Compromising the ‘Greenness’ of Your Company
If you go back a couple of decades ago, very few people would actually have cared about the greenness of a company. Sure, there may have been a few small voices here and there, but nobody would have been loud enough to really be heard. Businesses, for the most part, could pump out all manner … Read more…
Questions to Ask When Looking for UK Haulage Companies
Have you seen the movie “The Transporter “? I’m sure you have. We all know the plot of the story, because the title of the movie says it all. Now to get to the point that I am trying to make here, transporting products and goods whether they be valuable items, documents, pallets of goods … Read more…
How to Ensure the Long Life of Your Freight Management Solutions
Freight logistics are the backbone of commercial transport, the key to fuel consumer goods all around the world. All we see are the loud trucks and bulk cargo ships, but most fail to realise the system behind freight management. A messy game of logistics comes into play in this sort of business, a puzzle where … Read more…
Is The Logistics Market Too Overcrowded
Logistic companies play an important role in the market as without them products would not be seen on the shelves. From production origin, products in the market are stored, picked, possibly reworked and packaged and then transported to their destination. Logistics plays the core part in this process to make it all happen. These goods … Read more…
What specialist transport is used for heavy haulage?
In this increasingly international industry, there’s growing demand for quick and reliable freight forwarding, and the niche market of transporting outsized, unusual or dangerous goods is on the rise. Innovate methods and super-sized vehicles are answering the call of modern logistics, and many specialist firms are proud to say they can transport nearly anything to … Read more…
Supply Chain Management – How can it benefit your business?
Whilst working in a business selling products to your customers whether as a supplier, retailer or ecommerce seller, you would more than likely have discovered the term ‘Supply Chain Management’ otherwise known as ‘SCM’. This is a term becoming increasingly popular with expanding markets managing their supply chain activities. The more organised a business … Read more…
How advances in technology affect road haulage
Future technology has landed in present day road haulage, and everything from cab-based vehicle monitoring equipment to high-capacity trucks and alternative fuels are becoming increasingly popular among road haulage firms. Cost and practicality are key elements, and the pressure has been on to more easily assimilate technological innovations. It’s not only drivers and operators that … Read more…
What a job in freight forwarding involves
With the rise in e-commerce and the growth in overseas markets, now is a great time to consider a job in the fast paced world of freight forwarding. Expect to adapt to changing trends, new levels of automation, and exciting new developments in transport and warehousing. Freight forwarding offers a modern and challenging career path … Read more…
By air, sea and land, how to ship products internationally
International trade is big, and with buyers increasingly enjoying cheaper products with fast and reliable delivery times, winning custom requires careful consideration of costs and time. Whether you choose to ship by sea freight, air companies or road haulage, is often down to careful considerations about what would suit your business. Distributing your goods by … Read more…