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While it’s important to get the most out of your trailers, protecting your assets is crucial for long-term planning. You don’t want to wonder if an adequate insurance plan covers you when something goes wrong. Here is a guide on understanding commercial trailer insurance.

What hemorrhages profits more than empty miles? If you own a logistics business or work in the industry, then you know every mile needs to count. Yet, there are a lot of routes that only have cargo moving one way. Shippers, brokers, and 3PLs with yards and warehouses must address deadhead miles meaningfully to achieve smarter planning, increased revenue, and more sustainable practices.

What’s stopping you from getting the most out of your current assets and power? What’s cutting into your bottom line? Continual reassessment is the only way to ensure you address unnecessary expenses and inefficiencies in your business. Improving profitability rests on determining the root of how your company operates and what is holding up your efficiency.

What happens when you need to relocate one of your trailers? You might need to solve this problem if you buy a new trailer from a manufacturer several states away or if you have a trailer abandoned at a loading dock. There are two main ways to manage relocation without using your own tractors and driver time: load out or tow away.

There are over 21,000 warehouses in the U.S., employing over 1.78 million workers and responsible for storing goods of all kinds. A streamlined warehouse loading dock plays a crucial role in supporting an efficient transportation lane and reducing the cost of goods. For companies facing high inflation rates and a possible recession, cutting waste out of every process is essential for improving the bottom line.

Whether you own one power unit or oversee several tractors with a pool of trailers, it’s important to know the efficiency of your business. Streamlining your business and cutting out the excess helps you turn a higher profit and keep your customers happy. You want to achieve better fleet utilization, meaning you get more productivity out of your assets and know where to expand to increase your fleet utilization rate.

Smart trailer rental can help solve some of the problems that carriers are facing with  trailer manufacturing shortages and price hikes. With the proper smart tools in place, logistics companies can increase capacity or improve profitability through semi-trailer rental pools.

Shippers are constantly trying to trim down their transportation costs. Due to continued supply chain disruptions caused by the global pandemic and elevated price of fuel, companies everywhere are looking for ways to optimize their supply chain and find means to lower their shipping costs.  For freight brokers, keeping healthy margins is essential for business sustainability. . Sometimes carriers also want to know how lanes are priced because they feel pricing should be more in their favor.

If you are looking for a way to make your company more agile and ready to face unknown challenges, then building a flexible trailer pool is the right move. The slowed trailer production times and increased prices have left many logistics companies scrambling to adapt.

Prices are rising, and some logistics companies want to increase capacity without purchasing new equipment. While rental and leasing haven’t always seemed like viable options, new technology makes trailer sharing increasingly appealing. An easy-to-use platform for flexible semi-trailer lease solutions makes it possible for brokers, shippers, and owner-operators to create agile trailer pools. Businesses can beat the capacity crisis and adjust on the fly by leasing excess trailers.