Bulk Logistics Blog

As we approach the end of 2018, the truck driver shortage is continuing to worsen – with few signs of improvement any time soon.  Shippers continue to have products to transport, but there simply aren’t enough drivers to handle the loads. 

Look around you. Chances are that much of what you see – from the paint on the wall to the adhesive under your carpet – began inside a liquid bulk tank. In our previous article, we introduced you to these tanks along with some of the other equipment

Hauling dry bulk freight is a specialty that requires knowledge and careful execution – particularly during the loading and unloading stage. Make a mistake and you could be looking at major financial losses if loads become tainted. But what exactly is

In our previous blog post, we introduced our new Dry Bulk Freight 101eBook with a look at dry bulk equipment.  In this article, we’ll look at what’s included in the second part of that eBook – the processes involved in dry bulk trucking. 

When it comes to using rail for dry bulk transportation, I like to envision the process as an oval. The product travels from production to the distribution point and back again in a repeating cycle. There are the same number of railcars going out for

When you see a liquid bulk trailer on the highway, it’s easy to overlook the amount of work that goes into making the transportation of that load possible. Liquid bulk transportation companies – including the shippers themselves, for-hire carriers, and

Shippers ship, carriers haul and that’s what makes our economy go ‘round, right?  Well, yes…and no.  This formula is forgetting a special someone smack dab between the two: me. 

To say that people within the transportation industry were pessimistic as 2017 rolled over into 2018 would be an understatement. The driver shortage, extremely tight capacity, and enforcement of the ELD mandate are just a few of the items that darkened

In any dry bulk shipping project, countless small particles are combined to form one giant load within a dry bulk tank.  The same can be said for the process of dry bulk shipping. There are countless procedural steps that will collectively determine

In the world of liquid bulk shipping, everything is ‘big’ – the loads, the tanks, the miles, and the costs. One more thing is big relative to other shipments: the risks. So you would think every operational element would be examined, re-examined and