“Together, the united forces of our communication and transportation systems are dynamic elements in the very name we bear—United States. Without them, we would be a mere alliance of many separate parts.” -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower As Blue Eagle anticipates the future of the transportation industry,...
They say that courage doesn’t count until you have to use it. Truck driver Morgan Kirkland knows all about that. During a routine haul, he was crossing a bridge when he saw a car headed in his lane that was set to hit him head on....
“For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.” – Eleanor Everet Blue Eagle’s early embrace of transportation related tech and safety measures means that it is ready for serious highway capacity infrastructure investment to match spending on smarter highways. Safety expert, Eleanor Everet emphasized...
The Right People in the Right Seats Gino Wickman, author of Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business writes that getting the right people in the right seats means “that each of your employees is operating within his or her area of greatest skill and passion...
If you are in the business of shipping goods, you’ve noticed that associated costs continue to escalate. This is affecting players across the supply chain industry, from freight forwarders and last mile providers to OTR truckload carriers, LTL carriers, and freight brokers. Logistics and warehouse...
The Amazon Effect and Final Mile Delivery According to Forbes’ Insights, the rise of the “Amazon” effect is changing distribution patterns. “In particular, customer demands for ever more rapid fulfillment are forcing businesses of all kinds to warehouse their goods ever closer to intermediate and end-customers.”...
The Request for Quotation (RFQ) process must be updated. At a recent meeting of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, Bill Rooney, VP of strategic development for Kuehne + Nagel, said that RFQs are a time suck. He explained that “many of them are way too complicated” and...
On March 19th, PA Governor Tom Wolf ordered all non-essential businesses in Pennsylvania to close physical locations in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. As of March 30, 2020, Pennsylvania has 4,843 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 63 deaths. Here at Blue Eagle Logistics,...
What is cross-docking? The name, cross-docking, originates in the actual process of receiving products through an inbound dock and transferring these products across the dock to an outbound transportation dock. A logistics practice in which inbound products from suppliers or manufacturers arrive on trucks/ trailers/ rail...
