Industry

Less-than-Truckload (LTL) shipping is often utilized either by smaller businesses or businesses that need their freight delivered to a diverse array of final users, perhaps in an unfamiliar geographic area.  Here at Expressit we can meet the demands of many customers, but sometimes we aren’t a good fit for client needs. So we’ve sorted through…

Freight shipping industries have entered their busiest month of the year in preparation for the holiday season, and national attention has turned to a series of interlocking supply chain problems set in motion by the pandemic in 2020. Ports are overwhelmed, once reliable goods are unavailable, and some orders are taking months to arrive. What’s…

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains worldwide and sent companies into damage control with upset customers over the delays. Amid the reluctance of consumers to enter brick and mortar stores early in the pandemic, online sales in the United States increased, rising in June of 2020 to 76.2% over the same month…

Last-mile delivery is sometimes referred to as “the last-mile problem.” Why? Because it is precisely when freight that has arrived at a warehouse needs to move to its final destination as quickly as possible that the efficiencies of LTL and parcel services in aggregating and shipping freight from multiple senders together come unraveled. The necessity…