Freight Savings Tips

In this episode, I discuss everything you need to know about General Rate Increases or GRI's in the small parcel and less-than-truckload space.  Every 9-11 months, freight carriers announce they will be taking an general rate increase. But in fine print they'll add "the impact of this general rate increase may vary by specific lane or shipment characteristics such as weight or class", which makes it difficult for the typical shipper to calculate the real impact to their business. So I try to educate you about these increases, what the real impact like is for a shipper and how companies can better insulate themselves from gross rate hikes moving forward. I hope you find this insightful!

In this episode, I interview Don Hebert, Director of Recovery Services at the Center for Addiction Recovery Education and Success (CARES). Don shares some shocking statistics about addiction's impact on business, citing a the fact that the US Surgeon General reports that substance abuse costs the US Economy over $400 billion a year. Don shares statistics that nearly 1 in 10 people in the work force are dependent on drugs and/or alcohol. The expense to companies associated in dealing with these employees in the form of treatment costs, lack of productivity and employees not showing up for work is astronomical. With a massive shortage of warehouse employees, manufacturer workers and truck drivers, company execs and managers cannot afford not to deal with this problem. Don shares the huge benefits to companies that are taking this epidemic head on and points to practical things executives can put in place that can help employees recover and become healthy, hard working, loyal individuals that can change the enti

If you are getting invoiced for extra charges after you ship your products, chances are the freight carriers are likely hitting you with Weight & Inspections.  In this episode, George Muha describes how and why this is happening and how your company can avoid these extra charges starting today.  

In this episode George Muha interviews Paul Tatro founder and creator of Blockchain U Online that offers a 10 module course that certifies participants in the foundations of blockchain. Paul also a #1 best selling author of Blockchain Unchained, The Illustrated Guide to Understanding Blockchain. Paul shares his insights about how blockchain will revolutionize the business world and explains how it will benefit logistics and supply chain across the globe. Paul describes blockchain as the following: "By delivering records that convey offer and acceptance, block chain is a value exchange protocol that provides a trust layer for the internet and records that are stored on digitally recorded ledger in packages called blocks. Listen as Paul does a fantastic job breaking all this down in easily understandable way.

Listen to this riveting podcast as George Muha interview's Gustave A. Larson Company's Vice President of Supply Chain Greg Toler.  In this episode, Greg describes his amazingly successful career in operations that took him from a professional baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees to going back to school and learning distribution from some fantastic mentors. After playing 6-years of Major League Baseball, Toler cut his teeth in the Jacksonville, FL distribution center for Boise Cascade Office Products where he spent 12-years learning best of breed operational processes and techniques.  In 1999, he took a Director of Distribution job for GA Larson where he helped the company go from 18 distribution centers to 53 and to the position he holds now. Toler describes how he used his experience from Boise Cascade to bring an immediate impact to GA Larson by implementing Variable Labor Budget (VLB) to measure all of his operational costs and utilizing his own fleet to manage his inbound lead time

In this episode, George Muha interviews Chris Baumann, a lifelong expert in the area of 3rd party logistics outsourcing of warehouse operations. He gives real-world insights on the benefits of outsourcing part or all of the warehouse operations to an outside provider, what kinds of things to look for an in a 3PL, the difference between a 3PL and a 4PL and what a company can do to make sure a 3PL partnership is successful. Chris grew up providing outsourced operations services by doing big stints with USCO Logistics and Kuehne + Nagel and ultimately owning his own 4PL called Transport Systems, Inc.

In this episode George Muha talks with the owner of a medium sized e-tailer who has over 14-years in the e-commerce business. The owner, who chose to be anonymous due to the competitive nature of the online business talks about all of the tricks, tips and hard work that goes into being successful at online sales. If you are a seasoned e-commerce business, just getting started or want to know of all of the ins and outs of dealing with e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, this is the podcast for you.

George Muha describes how the recent ELD Mandate is impacting freight rates and creating more of a capacity crunch in the freight industry.  

George Muha shares everything you need to know about pool distribution including what it is, who should do it, when the right time to do it is and what the cost savings can look like if done correctly.