A recent issue of “USA Today” featured an article about health concerns for truckers. We think of trucking as a physical job. However, although there is some physical work in the loading and unloading of the truck, it is primarily a sedentary job – not too different from an office job from a physical perspective. […]
Dupré Logistics was honored with a SmartWay®Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a true industry leader in freight supply chain environmental performance and energy efficiency. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognizes Dupré Logistics results based on the second generation quantification and reporting tools that collect detailed data of freight operation. Dupré Logistics […]
Dupré Logistics has joined the Alliance for Driver Safety and Security (The Trucking Alliance), a small group of trucking companies that formed to lobby for a defined set of safety initiatives that affect the industry. The Alliance was established in 2010 in an effort to get the recent Electric On-Board Recorders (EOBR) mandate passed. Following […]
When and where did logistics start? Is it a modern term or a function that is centuries old? Logistics is defined by Merriam-Webster as: “1. the aspect of military science dealing with the procurement, maintenance, and transportation of military matériel, facilities, and personnel, and 2. the handling of the details of an operation.” This concept […]
In our last blog, we talked about how important customer service is, but we didn’t discuss how to assure that your employees will provide such service. Too many companies do a wonderful job of training employees how to produce the product – whether it is a physical product or a service. Once they have been […]
For the last two years, we’ve been warning companies and shippers that the world as we know it is undergoing dramatic change; and that this impending change would throw the “rules as we know them” into chaos, ultimately resulting in significantly less predictability, much greater risk and higher costs. Eighteen months ago we shared a […]
You can provide a superior product at a lower price, and still lose the business. It is true that you need to offer an excellent product at a reasonable price, but don’t lose sight of the fact that, if people don’t like you, they won’t continue to buy from you no matter how good your […]
Two years ago, we met with a global manufacturer who was undertaking a major cost cutting initiative for the North American operations. A central point of the initiative encompassed reducing the costs for supporting logistics. This led them to embark on a freight consolidation initiative. When we met with them, they told us that the […]
Every individual has his or her own values that determine how they live their lives and how they interact with others. Are they self-centered, demanding that the world cater to them or do they live by a value system that lets them understand and meet the needs of their neighbors as well as their own? […]
Logistics has come a long way from its early days. Logistics emerged in the pre-1980s methods. Needs were simple, and cost-minimization was the key. Managers needn’t be’t concerned with efficiencies. Logistics was simply as a necessary cost. The transportation industry was highly regulated and prices didn’t vary much among suppliers. Logistics planning was a major […]
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