LP Employees Celebrate Anniversary Together
Thank you to the employees and family members that helped us celebrate LP’s 20th anniversary this weekend at Peek’n Peak Resort. Click below to view a Flickr photo album for the event.
Congratulations to Our Quality Carriers
Last week Logistics Management magazine unveiled the results of its 33rd Annual Quest for Quality Awards contest. To determine who wins the vote, Logistics Management readers evaluate companies in all modes and service disciplines, choosing the top performers in categories including motor carriers, railroad and intermodal services, ocean carriers, airlines, freight forwarders, ports, and third-party/contract logistics services.
Once again, many of our core national and regional less-than-truckload (LTL) freight carriers were on the ballot and many also won awards. We’d like to congratulate the following Logistics Plus LTL freight carriers for winning Quest for Quality awards this year:
- FedEx Freight (National and Multiregional LTL categories)
- XPO Logistics (National and Multiregional LTL categories)
- UPS Freight (National LTL category)
- A. Duie Pyle (Northeast/Mid-Atlanta LTL and Expedited categories)
- Pitt Ohio (Northeast/Mid-Atlanta LTL and Expedited categories)
- Ward Transport (Northeast/Mid-Atlanta LTL category)
- New Penn (Northeast/Mid-Atlanta LTL category)
- Southeastern Freight Lines (South/South Central LTL category)
- Dayton Freight (Midwest/North Central LTL category)
- Holland (Midwest/North Central LTL category)
Competitive rates and services for all of the top LTL carriers are available to users of the Logistics Plus eShipPlus transportation management system.
Additionally, there were a number of truckload, expedited, ocean and air freight carriers that Logistics Plus has worked with in the past year that won Quest for Quality awards, including Miller Transporters, Prime, Ruan, Landstar, J.B. Hunt, Transport America, Panther Premium Logistics, and FedEx Custom Critical (truckload and expedited motor carriers); Matson, MSC, NYK Line, Maersk Line, OOCL, AAPL, Hapag-Lloyd, and Hyundai Merchant Marine (ocean carriers); and Cargolux, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Korean Air, Lufthansa, Emirates SkyCargo, EVA, and FedEx Express (airfreight carriers).
Shippers looking for competitive rates with the top freight carriers in the industry can click the button below to request a risk-free quote.
Your Hub for Southwest Warehousing & Distribution
Centrally located in the fourth largest metro area in the United States, the Logistics Plus Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) warehouse provides 180,000 square feet of prime storage space. Additionally, the facility is located on the 18,000-acre AllianceTexas development which is anchored by the Alliance Global Logistics Hub – one of the world’s premier inland ports. The Logistics Plus Southwest location offers shippers a strategic multi-modal transportation hub, including:
- Access to two Class 1 rail lines (BNSF and UP)
- Proximity to Fort Worth Alliance Airport – the world’s first industrial airport
Connections to Highway 35W from Mexico to Canada; Texas Highways 114 and 170; and regional sorting hubs for both FedEx and UPS- Fully activated general-purpose Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) space and services
- Triple Freeport Inventory Tax Exemption on goods that move in and out of Texas within a 175 day period
- Comprehensive inventory management and fulfillment solutions
- Pneumatic tire forklift with 62,000 lb. lifting capacity – the BIGGEST in N. Texas!
- Open space, high ceilings, and tall doors perfect for heavy-lift and big cargo
- Retail warehousing expertise with Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) and direct-to-customer solutions
- Secured facility with monitored cameras and alarms
- Bulk storage and racked storage
- Inventory control and warehouse management system (WMS) technology
- Recessed loading docks and grade level docks with inside and outside load/unload capabilities
- Comprehensive ground (LTL and truckload), rail, air, and ocean transportation services
If you’re interested in learning more about the Logistics Plus DFW warehouse, our comprehensive logistics solutions, and how to take full advantage of our Southwest hub, please email us at dallas@logisticsplus.com. You can also click the image below to view/download a copy of our Logistics Plus/AllianceTexas brochure.
How to Boost Your Brand’s Reach and Increase Impact on Social Media
Logistics Plus was recently asked to participate in an online article focusing on branding. The author, Disha Dinesh, posed the following two questions to a number of industry professionals: “What are the two best ways for brands to boost their reach on social media?” and “Describe your experience in implementing them.” The complete article can be found on the DrumUp website by clicking the image below. Logistics Plus can be followed and liked on a number of social media platforms.
Top 25 Sales Quotes from the Pros
The folks over at FitSmallBusiness recently posed the question “What’s your favorite sales quote?” to a number of successful entrepreneurs. Logistics Plus founder and CEO, Jim Berlin, was included in the article. Jim’s contribution, and the complete article, can be found on the FitSmallBusiness.com website by clicking the image below.
Local Girls Softball Team Going to World Series!
Cool news from our very own Jeremy Chaffee. Jeremy manages the Logistics Plus truckload solutions department, and he has been an employee of the company for 16 years.
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My daughter, Kaylene Chaffee, and her softball team will be competing in the Little League, Senior League Softball World Series from Sunday, July 31 to, August 7th. Kaylene (#20) is a utility player that usually plays at the Catcher and Shortstop positions.
The USA East / Pennsylvania District 1 Senior Softball team is comprised of girls, 16 years old and under, from 6 different area high schools, General McLane, Cambridge Springs, Saegertown, Cochranton, Titusville, and Conneaut Area Senior High. Each player had to distinguish themselves in 12 regular season Little League games and then try out and make the District 1 All Star team cut. After that, in order to progress this far, the team has already had to place first in a series of tournaments including the Pennsylvania Section 1 Tournament and the Pennsylvania State Tournament, and, just this past week, the East Region Tournament where these ladies traveled to Worcester, MA and spent a week competing against 11 other state championship teams from ME, VT, NH, MA, NY, NJ, RI, NJ, DE, and MD.
The girls leave on a bus Saturday morning to the Senior League Softball World Series in Sussex, DE where they will spend the following week competing daily against 9 other championship teams from around the world, including 5 other US regional teams, Canada, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Europe-Africa, for a chance to compete in the Semi Finals and World Series Final that will be broadcast next weekend on ESPN 3 and ESPN.
This team is a wonderful group of fun and extremely talented young athletes who are completely dedicated to their sport, and I’m excited that my daughter is among them. Most of these young ladies have both played with and competed against each other since they were 6 years old on various Little League, travel ball, and high school softball teams, and to see them all together now representing our local area, the state of Pennsylvania, and the Northeastern US is just amazing. It has already been a fantastic adventure to see not only how this team has come together, but also how the community has rallied around them. When they won the PA state title, the team had just 5 days to raise the over $11,000 necessary to fund the trip to the East Tournament in Worcester. Local businesses, organizations, and individuals contributed generously and they easily surpassed that goal to make that trip a reality. The experience of travelling to Massachusetts and now to Delaware to compete against the best teams in the world has already been a fantastic experience, and, win or lose, it is something that these girls, and their proud families, will never forget.
Anyone can follow the girls progress next week at http://www.seniorsoftballws.org/ and on the team’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1001783353262305/.
For more information about Little League and the Senior League Softball World Series, see http://www.seniorsoftballws.org and http://www.littleleague.org