In 2008, with a recession making its presence felt and their customers demanding real-time shipment status, Central Freight Lines knew they needed to make some changes, and make them quickly. Once they saw how perfectly Cheetah’s real-time logistics solutions met their needs, and Sprint came on board to supply the coverage, Central Freight was sold.

Route Optimization and Visibility: Improving the Bottom Line, Mile by Mile

Routing, dispatch, and customer service drive the success of transportation companies.  Unfortunately, these functions are often manual and time-consuming, resulting in too many miles driven, too much fuel used, and customer service representatives frantically calling drivers, dispatchers, and customers with out-of-date information.

Leveling the Playing Field: Automation Means Doing a Whole Lot More with a Lot Less

By Stephan Karczag

TRUCKERS ADOPT TECHNOLOGY TO SURVIVE HIGH FUEL COSTS

 
By Stephan Karczag

FUEL PRICES. As if the average LTL transportation provider doesn’t have enough to worry about. Escalating cost of operations, competition eroding margins, the big guys taking over or buying out the mid-size and smaller markets, all concerns pounding down on the LTL (less than truckload) and Delivery markets.  

Even the larger LTL companies are being affected. Fed Ex Freight and UPS both raised their rates 5.9% at the end of April due to increasing costs of business operations.