Critical Business Issue Solutions
Because transportation management is McLeod’s sole focus we are deeply attuned to the critical business issues facing our industry. We have dedicated this section of our web site to sharing the insights and understanding of critical business issues our customers face and the innovative ways they have leveraged our solutions to solve real problems, improve profitability, and gain competitive advantage.
Managing Under the CSA Regulations
The CSA regulations may not have fully arrived in 2010 but there is no question that they will change the way trucking companies, brokers, and shippers manage in 2011 and beyond. Click here to learn more about the impacts of CSA and how McLeod is preparing our customers to manage differently.
View the CSA Regulation White Paper
Seizing Opportunities: How Trucking Companies Can Accelerate Growth
as the Economy Heats Up
View the Seizing Opportunities White Paper
How Broker’s Can Get More Productive: Begin to Manage by Exception
Managers in brokerage companies are trying to solve broader issues facing the business. They can find themselves spending hours examining reports that are supposed to help them make decisions on such matters as which freight is most likely to bring a higher profit, when to look for new customers and carriers, and how to ensure that contracts are being executed correctly. They’re swimming in a sea of information, and they frequently don’t have the tools necessary to analyze and transform fragmented data into highly-focused and actionable knowledge. Too much time is being spent on details and too little time is left to focus on the big picture. In this short paper, McLeod’s David Custred, CTB, discusses how managing by exception has the potential to transform these challenges.
Coming Soon, will be available for download on September 17th!
How Broker’s Can Leverage Their Web Presence to Gain Competitive Advantage
Every day, freight brokers all across North American are hard at work juggling the many details of finding loads from shippers and matching these loads with the right carriers. Although the web technology available today is more mature and impressive than ever, many of these brokers are surviving without any of the capabilities that an interactive website can provide. So it may be tempting for these brokers to reach the conclusion that there’s no pressing need to have a web presence. As it turns out, that conclusion would be wrong.
Competitive pressures have intensified in the brokerage/logistics domain, and there’s every indication that this trend will continue. That’s why smart brokers are always looking for ways to generate a competitive edge. An interactive website is clearly one of the most powerful ways a broker can do this. In this short paper, McLeod’s Robert Brothers talks about the proven ways Brokers with interactive websites always gain a competitive advantage.
Coming Soon, will be available for download on September 17th!
More on the way in October!
- How to speed up your driver recruiting and hiring process to cope with the driver shortage, lessons learned from Thom Pronk of C.R. England and Randy Seals of McLeod.
- Using KPI’s to manage profitability: Understanding the relationships in your data, what it really means, how to use it, and how to act on it.
- Better ways to manage customer relationships.
