Trinity Customized Logistics becomes Trinity Logistics

This will be our final post on our wordpress blog, please begin to follow our blog on our website, http://www.trinitylogistics.com. As we close another year, our company reflects on all that we have been able to achieve and celebrate in the past twelve months. I’m writing to you in order to personally extend our heartfelt [...]

How to Beat One of the Most Common Budget Busters

By Brian Kenney, VP TCL Division As the leaves begin to fall and the temperatures to drop, many companies find themselves heading into the final quarter of their fiscal year—reviewing their 2011 budgets and planning for 2012. During this process, especially with transportation costs on a steady incline, many of these companies may also find [...]

What Management Needs to Know about the Transportation Market, Part Three: Legislation

By Brian Kenney, VP of TCL There are several major pieces of legislation that will have a major impact on transportation that you should be aware of. CSA 2010- CSA went into effect in December of 2010 and was designed to make the roads safer by measuring the performance of trucking companies and the individual [...]

What Management Needs to Know about the Transportation Market, Part Two: Cost

By Brian Kenney, VP of TCL It is simple supply and demand.  There is more freight than there are trucks.  After losing so much capacity during the down turn, the demand will continue to be greater than the supply for the foreseeable future, even at the anemic growth rate of the economy.   Some carriers are [...]

What Management Needs to Know about the Transportation Market, Part 1: Capacity

By Brian Kenny, VP of TCL Transportation may not be high on your priority list or even on your list at all, but you should probably make some room for it.  You need to pay attention to the transportation market because costs are continuing to increase and capacity continues to tighten.   This means it is [...]

TMS Deployment: Is it better to wade first or dive right in?

By Chris McAvoy, Director of Operations, TCL Division A couple weeks ago I had family visiting from out of town, so we decided to go to the beach. Even though the outside temperature was 95 degrees with a heat index of.. .oh I dunno…400 or so, the water temp was surprisingly chilly. After playing in [...]

What is the Magic Number?

By Brian Kenney, Vice President TCL Can you remember when gas prices first reached the $2.00 per gallon mark?  What about diesel?  Do you remember how you felt about it?  How would you feel today if you could buy gas for $2.00 per gallon?    Regular unleaded gases prices first passed the $2 per gallon mark [...]

Do You Want a Rate or Do You Want a Truck?

by Brian Kenney, VP Trinity Customized Logistics Many shippers treat transportation as a commodity and buy it on the spot market every day.  In the current transportation market these shippers have noticed that the price of this commodity has continued to go up.   A significant reduction in capacity during the last few years combined with [...]

Global flooring company awards TCL logistics contract

Trinity Customized Logistics (TCL), a division of Trinity Transport, has been awarded a logistics contract to provide transportation support and solutions to Tajima Flooring of Conifer, Colorado. TCL supports clients like Tajima with solutions including supply chain and logistics consulting, freight management, and a transportation management system (TMS) utilizing online SaaS technology. TCL’s transportation management [...]

It’s a Carrier’s World Part 3: Time to get creative.

By Brian Kenney, Vice President, TCL Division If you follow this blog or if you are anyway involved in the transportation process you know that freight rates continue to rise.  Not only are shippers paying a higher fuel surcharge than they did last year, but they also have to pay higher line haul rates.  This [...]