While the U.S. House and Senate debate the funding, finding a long-term solution to shoring up the Highway Trust Fund is key to ensuring the reauthorization of the FAST ACT and the nation’s surface transportation projects before its September 20, 2020 expiration.

The TIA Delivers Podcast series offers updates and information curated specifically for 3PLs, including interviews with industry leaders, government officials and TIA members on the issues that potentially affect your business.

Though EDIs have been the mainstay for many years, improved efficiency, end-to-end visibility and higher profitability overall may well be the reason more than 55% of surveyed supply chain professionals are considering the move to API’s.

Final mile typically consumes a chunk of your transportation budget and is also one of the most wasteful parts of the supply chain. So how can you turn that around and look for a greener final mile?

Though recent years have not been good to intermodal, new pricing sophistication, increasing speeds and increased rates may well widen the intermodal savings gap and convert certain lanes back to intermodal.

Though malware, ransomware and cyberthreats of all kinds are the greatest risks logistics companies face, problems originating from within the organization can be harder to spot—and wreak the most damage.

Addressing the push-me, pull-me factors of freight brokering, Prosperio Group’s Beth Carroll dives deeper into sales commissions by creating relatively simple incentive compensation plans using a two-dimensional matrix.

Moving into month two of the COVID-19 pandemic, the sustainability of our industry has never been more apparent, revealing the important roles 3PLs have in adapting new technology and adopting new approaches that enable our motor carriers and shippers to stay the course and hold on. That is sustainability.

Connectivity and digital workflows are streamlining freight transaction processes while telematics, TMS and other cloud-based apps offer 3PLs more options for putting the right freight on the right truck—at the right time—and for the right price.

Prosperio Group Founder Beth Carroll continues her discussion on commission calculation with an array of options for organizations looking to create unique incentive plans for their sales force.