Paranoid Deskmates of Five Years Have Yet to Utter a Single Customer’s Name to Each Other
Dublin, OH – Mutually convinced that even the faintest utterance of a potential client’s name would lead to their inevitable poaching, fellow brokers Duane Hollins and Harry Sims of Snappy Fast Freight – desk mates of five years – spoke only in hushed, enigmatic tones during their obligatory Friday morning sales meeting. When pressed about […]
Your Monthly Guide to the Cosmos and Freight
Forecasting by Madame BachepeauAries: March 21 – April 19Familiar pangs of holiday melancholy and rejection will resurface when your truckload of Peeps arrives to deliver on April 6th. Taurus: April 20 – May 20Celestial discord suggests that in an unfortunate irony, Strong Solo is merely the given birthname of the narcoleptic driver you will hire […]
Truckers Allowed Access to Bathroom Pits and Dungeons
Austin, TX In accordance with a recently proposed bill by the Texas state legislature, truck drivers in the state will now have mandatory access to newly created on-premise bathroom pits and dungeons during any commercial pickup or delivery. The bill, which attracted bipartisan support, mimics a law recently passed by Washington state allowing drivers access […]
Renowned Double Brokerage Declares Moral Bankruptcy
Glendale, CA As the freight recession churns on and continues to thin the ranks of an overcrowded carrier pool, an unlikely victim has been added to the body count this week as notoriously renowned double-brokerage outfit Tasty Transport (TT) has shuttered its virtual doors. “We’ve dragged our MC number through hell. After 40-odd FreightGuard reports […]
Freight Forwarder Insists on Tarping the Cargo
Tucson, AZ – Reiterating his intractable policy of tarping all exposed cargo, Service Agent Charlie Fuentes of All Four Oceans & Air held the line on Tuesday while requiring the assigned trucker to tarp an out-of-service cell tower for transit from Tucson to Phoenix. “I’m totally unprepared for this, I think Alex Honnold himself would […]
Non-Acronym Named Trucking Company is the Newest Logistics Industry Disruptor
Eschewing decades of industry practice and standards, president and founder Jim Hendershot’s newest business venture—Jimmy’s Trucking & Hauling—has logistics industry titans scrambling to respond to what’s being labeled as the latest industry disruptor: a non-acronym named company.“We have pricing algorithms, predictive models that have next year’s tender rejection rates pegged to the tenth of a […]