In our last blog post on exercising caution with load boards, we touched upon the topic of fraud committed by some unscrupulous entities claiming to be freight brokers – double brokering. While double brokering is not a common problem within the bulk
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In the Bulk Connection blog, we routinely interview individuals that help keep the bulk shipping industry in motion. In this latest article, we interview liquid bulk carrier and Bulk Connection carrier partner, Jim Jones, General Manager of Jeff Foster
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Modern tools drive modern business, and this is as true in the transportation industry as anywhere else. Shippers, carriers and freight brokers can all use TMS systems and other electronic applications to ship, haul, track, and pay for freight transport.
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We periodically profile the men and women who make Bulk Connection a trusted freight partner. In this article, the company’s founder James Cordock talks about his history in the bulk freight industry, as well as Bulk Connection’s role as a bulk shipment
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With capacity so tight over the past few years, the role of the bulk freight truck driver has received a lot of attention. Specifically, “why don’t we have enough of them?” The short answer is that there is a truck driver shortage across all modes of
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Right now, you’re probably surrounded by items made of plastic—phones, pens, eyeglasses, yogurt cups, you name it. Practically every ounce of that plastic started as a load of resin pellets or powder transported on a bulk trailer. Many other dry bulk
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Is 2023 the year where the supply chain finally settles down, or are we in for more instability? To get a read on how things currently stand and where an expert thinks things are headed, we sat down with Bulk Connection’s VP of Operations, Andrew
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Throughout the year, the Bulk Logistics Blog keeps readers informed of key topics and challenges within the world of bulk freight shipping. The following articles are the ones that readers connected with most in 2022.
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A sizeable portion of the country’s bulk freight transport occurs, for at least part of the journey, on railcars and barges. And while these are efficient and cost-effective modes of transport, they are susceptible to freight delays. In this article,
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To people outside of the supply chain industry, the world of freight transportation must seem like a never-ending carousel of problems and challenges. But we know that’s only part of the story.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we’d like to take a moment to
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