Some things in freight are outside anyone’s control.
Weather happens.
Highways close.
Equipment breaks.
A shipment doesn’t always go exactly according to plan.
That’s transportation.
But chasing down a POD?
Calling three people just to figure out who can help?
Keeping your own spreadsheet because the information you need is scattered across different systems?
Having to follow up on something that should already be handled?
We’ve gotten really good at putting a lot of things under the heading of “that’s just freight.”
Some things are just part of freight.
But “that’s just freight” shouldn’t be an excuse for everything.
You can’t control the weather. You can control what you accept from your carrier.
Ship with a carrier that helps keep freight problems from becoming your problems.
