Archive for May 2010

Trucking Broker – Makes carriage easier!!

May 17, 2010

Trucking transportation is a challenging task, if not executed in a planned and well thought-out manner. There is a plethora of trucking companies that claim to deliver the best of the freight services at the most competitive prices. However, all the glitters is not gold, therefore, it is imperative to carefully choose the most efficient logistics transportation services provider for low risk trucking and gladdened hauling.

If you are a seasoned shipper and is well acclimatized of the mechanism of the trucking industry and its varied players, then picking an adept cargo transportation company would not be that big of a deal for you. However, if you are a novice, and not cognizant of the sensibilities required to select the cheapest and best freight service, the freight broker is the best expedient to confide on. Freight broker extends freight services to the shippers by connecting them to the suitable trucking carrier at most competitive prices.

The work of a logistics transportation services provider doesn’t end after he meets the two ends; the shipper and the trucking company, rather it begins from there. The freight broker takes complete responsibility of hauling the shipper’s freight in the most consummate way. It is he, who coordinates the transit of the freight and maintains appropriate communication with the shipper throughout the shipping process. Also, the freight broker ensures the timely and scheduled delivery of the freight at the most convincing prices.

So, right from analyzing the transportation needs of the clients, and suggesting the apt trucking service to them, to the final delivery of the shipment, the logistics transportation services provider does all for the shippers.  Withal the trucking broker also vows utmost professionalism and unmatched customer satisfaction for a joyous and satiated trucking experience to the clients.

Communication is the key to good freight services

May 7, 2010

Any freight service, no matter how efficient it is, the specialist trailers it tenders services of or rock-bottom prices it charges – is not effectual, if, it does not maintain proper communication with the shipper, while the freight is in transit. The most significant concern of any shipper is that its priced freight gets hauled in the most impeccable and efficacious way, sans any loss in transportation, and the same is relentlessly conveyed to them, to keep them assured.

The trucking transportation company that understands this concern the best is touted as the most promising one. Sometimes, the freight in transit is highly specialized like oil, gas or oversized freight like iron bars, concrete slabs, heavy machinery parts, automotive parts, heaters, chillers etc, and pricey too. Such freight requires specialized trailers like low boys, step deck, flatbed, removable goose neck, multi-axle etc, along with experienced and expert drivers. But, despite roping in the best of the freight transportation companies that proffer all the aforementioned services, the shipper still needs to get up-to-the-minute updates of their freight in transit.

Most of the time, it’s the cargo transportation company that takes the onus of updating the shippers about their freight. But, at times, when the freight transportation services are sought via freight broker (an individual or company that connects the shipper with the most becoming trucking transportation company, after gingerly examining their trucking needs), it becomes the broker’s responsibility to communicate with the shipper about the movement and whereabouts of the shippers’ freight. The freight broker is also responsible to communicate the shipper, in the instance, of any delay or timely/scheduled delivery of the freight. Therefore, it is expedient for a shipper to pick a transportation company, after scrupulously assessing their communication services, along with other services.

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