As we predicted in our projected trends for 2020, big shippers like Amazon and Walmart are expanding their use for internal logistics. This means they are carrying out more of their own final mile delivery services. These big companies are defying conventional wisdom...
Cross-dock management is vital for our company as we grow and work to make deliveries as efficient as possible. When moving freight from one truck to another truck with little to no warehousing, attention to detail and compliance with safety procedures is a must. We...
As the drive to offer even faster delivery escalates, companies of all sizes within the logistics company are seeing rising costs and other associated effects. Let’s take a look at some of those costs and what that could mean for the consumer. Insurance...
Anyone who has been around On Time Logistics for a while knows we enjoy celebrating our people and also strive to keep them aware of the impact their hard work is having on the company. One way we accomplish that is to host an annual celebration that recognizes...
In our last blog of 2019, we gave some trends we predicted to see in 2020. We are going to take each of those trends and expound on them in the coming weeks and months. A couple of weeks ago, we talked about how the rapid growth of e-commerce is changing human...
Tracking orders and making sure packages flow through the warehouse efficiently is a vital function of what we do. Since August 2019, Robert Mansmith has worked as our admin/warehouseman in our Little Rock warehouse location. Robert’s responsibilities mostly include...
Believe it or not, the proverbial dust is just now settling on the Holiday Rush for 2019 and most people are declaring it a success. The traditional holiday rush season started around November 15 and ended about a week or so ago. Holiday shopping by the numbers...
For our first team member spotlight of 2020, we chose Frank Edens, who joined On Time Logistics in November 2019 as a delivery driver. Frank is one of our Amazon delivery drivers so if you’ve ordered from the online retail giant in Northwest Arkansas recently, it’s a...
In the next few months, we will be taking a closer look at each of the trends we predicted for the logistics industry in 2020. When most people think about logistics trends, they think about the rise of e-commerce and the effects on the customers. Today, we’re going...
As we move not only into a new year but a new decade, the world of logistics and transportation is guaranteed to explode with even more growth. Just what that growth looks like and how it will take shape remains to be seen, but we are taking this week’s blog—the final...