Category: Shippers

As a full-service cooperative that utilizes a wide variety of transportation modes and methods, Land O’ Lakes in Minneapolis may be picking up milk in a temperature-controlled truck one day and then delivering feed products in a dry van the next. Each one of these different modes and methods comes with different challenges, with the…

When Alex Alegria, supply chain manager at Hilo, Hawaii-based Waiakea Hawaiian Volcanic Water needs to secure a carrier to deliver her company’s naturally alkaline volcanic water to a customer, she logs into the Convoy shipper platform and keys in the information about the load. She lets the marketplace do its thing in finding a carrier…

While the freight market upheaval has only recently made headlines, those in the industry have been feeling its effects for years. High freight volumes coupled with a nationwide driver shortage and new regulations have resulted in unprecedented volatility. As demand outstrips supply, the balance of power has shifted to carriers, who are becoming increasingly selective…

There’s not a lot of forward planning in the wine and beer distribution industries, where 11th-hour phone calls to “deliver glass bottles to a location in Los Angeles tomorrow morning” is a commonly-heard request at Glass Bottles and Co. A maker of glass bottle and packaging, the company knows that storage space is at a…

Learn how the leading private bottled water manufacturer (Bottled Water co.) in the United States increases the speed of their supply chain with Convoy’s innovative trucking services. For most stores, the average order-to-shelf time is over 7 days for most of their beverage suppliers. For this private bottled water manufacturer, average order-to-shelf is just 3…

It’s no secret that shippers have been faced with a particularly challenging freight environment over the past three quarters. The combination of newly-enforced ELD regulations and a strong economy have wreaked havoc on routing guides and transportation budgets across all modes, causing unprecedented volatility. The statistic above, provided by DAT1 , references the fact that…