Last week, a shipper called us with a difficult predicament. Through another trucking company, the shipper had arranged pickup of a load of poultry. The driver was a no-show, so the shipper faced a huge product loss unless another driver could pick up the load within a few hours. 

In the second quarter of 2020, the pandemic plunged the U.S. gross national product into an unprecedented drop of 32.9%. Yet, shippers and the transportation industry have plenty of reasons for guarded optimism about the economy’s outlook for the second half. 

The average age of employees at AJC Logistics is 44 years. On average, AJC Logistics employees have 14 years of experience in the transportation industry.  Why should those two facts be important to shippers? Why does average age and industry experience matter in your choice of providers to book your loads?

n a time of widespread fear, truckers—along with all the people who do everything from harvesting and packaging products to scheduling loads to loading and unloading trucks—faced unprecedented obstacles…