Brian Byrd

Smart shippers, from small businesses to ecommerce giants, know that the best way to manage the bottom-line impact of their small parcel service agreements is to renegotiate whenever their shipping landscape changes. Heightened customer expectations[…]

For all the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has caused in our personal and professional lives, there is still a lot of good being done. It may not be obvious, but it’s there.

To help keep small parcel shippers like you up to date, Transportation Impact has compiled a summary of the week’s logistics news related to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. We’ll continue to provide weekly updates as the situation warrants, with more[…]

FedEx and UPS shippers take note, both carriers have suspended their money-back service guarantees, in response to COVID-19.

Small parcel rate agreements are complex documents that, whether by design or not, are almost impossible for most shippers to fully understand on their own.

Pressure on shippers and carriers is (thankfully) easing with peak season in the rear view mirror.

Companies that implement a Parcel TMS, or Transportation Management System, realize benefits that go far beyond just reducing their parcel shipping spend. This alone is no small benefit, of course, but the benefits go far beyond that simple metric.[…]

Logistics managers can get complacent about their freight rates, and this is a problem. With so much else to manage in the day-to-day, it’s easy for some to assume that they’re getting “around what everyone else is paying” and that’s good enough.

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