I received a question a while back from a client, a supply chain director at a process manufacturer. In the process manufacturing industry, storage often does not involve warehouses that store cases and pallets; it involves putting various types of liquids, at various temperatures and pressures, in storage tanks. These tanks might store raw materials […]
Many private fleets have to justify their existence versus for-hire carriers every few years. Better service and cost competitiveness are the key justifications for keeping a fleet. A private fleet manager is often responsible for both operations (the drivers and fleet planners) and fleet maintenance. Achieving strong performance on the cost-per-mile-driven metric requires not just […]
The National Private Truck Council (NPTC), a U.S. trade association focused on the interests of companies with private fleets, conducts an annual Private Fleet Benchmarking Survey. This survey has three goals: (1) to validate private fleet performance based on comparative peer data; (2) identify areas of improvement and opportunity; and (3) identify the significant trends […]