A recent webinar hosted by SMC3 and the Truckload Carrier’s Association focused on cost clarity as a critical factor for making better business decisions. While cost clarity comprises many related ideas, at root, it’s about developing an increasingly granular understanding of what your costs really are—and through that process, improving your profitability.

LTL professionals need to be well-versed in the intricacies of contracts and insurance to protect themselves from risk. A recent SMC³ LTL webinar brought in legal experts Rocky Rogers and Fred Marcinak from Moseley Marcinak Law Group to weigh in on the critical role that insurance and contracting play in modern logistics.

After more than a decade of hype around autonomous trucking, we’re now on the cusp of an inflection point. Autonomous trucking will become a widely adopted reality over the next several years, driving significant impacts in the shipping and logistics industry—and the LTL segment, in particular.

The first session of SMC³’s U.S. Transportation Laws and Regulations course focused on sustainability, guided by insight from Randy Mullett of Mullett Strategies and Mike Kelley, VP of Sustainability at SMC³. Trucking finds itself at a significant inflection point and the pressure to meet sustainability targets and regulations without negatively affecting service has introduced stress.

“Reducing Invoicing Surprises,” the third session of the SMC³ LTL Online Education webinar, featured Tyler Limbaugh, Truck Audits Manager at American Rail & Truck Audits (AMTR).  He got to the bottom of what can go wrong in pricing freight — and how shippers and carriers alike can avoid mishaps.

Freight classification is an important part of LTL — shaping everything from pricing to operational efficiency. LTL freight is complex, comprising a wide variety of products and materials. Classification gets even more complicated with models like hub and spoke, where freight is moving constantly between different docks and trailers. With all this complexity, how does freight get classified?