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A 3PL is a third party logistics provider. All 3PLs have different strengths and weaknesses. Because of that they all target different areas of the transportation world. Some may be very good at warehousing, or fulfillment, while others may handle the transportation specific freights.

3PL means a third party logistics provider. All 3PLs have different strengths and weaknesses. Because of that they all target different areas of the transportation world. Some may be very good at warehousing, or fulfillment, while others may handle the transportation of goods.

Almost all 3PLs deal with some sort of trucking. Mostly FTL and LTL freight shipping. Many are very good at international freight shipping.

Third party logistics providers all have different strengths and weaknesses. Because of that they all target different areas of the transportation world. Some may be very good at warehousing, or fulfillment, while others may handle the transportation of goods. Some are strong in certain regions of the US.

Any small company can sign up to use the online freight rater and receive volume discounts even if they don’t ship more than 4 times a month. A company run and operated by a single person could be paying the same freight rates as a fortune 500 company. It is as if you ship one hundred million in freight even if you don’t break $10,000/year.

Shipping from LA to New York you may find the best carrier to be a large national carrier like YRC or FedEx. But the next day you may only need to ship from LA to San Diego. And maybe it is going to a residential delivery and then Oak Harbor could give you the best price because they have a special on lift gates.

Trucking is part of every logistics team. Most do well with FTL and LTL freight shipping. Many are very good at international freight shipping or ocean containers.

SpiderShip.com will give you all the variety you would ever need for online freight quotes. It is like the expedia.com of the freight world. All that and then you get to choose the carrier yourself. Book what you want when you want it

Spider Ship is proud to boast access to all of the top carriers though our online freight quotes system. A very technologically advanced online freight quotes system.

A web based transportation management system will give you access to instant LTL freight quotes from all of the top carriers. Not only can you get freight quotes from the top carriers like YRC, UPS, and FedEx, but many of your local regional carriers are part of this program. This adds specific regional savings for both cost and transportation time.

This system will give you so much more than just quotes. You can immediately see you’re the history of all your shipments. You can export daily manifest or custom date range manifest. View your invoices and payments or import any specific data that you need to see.

I forgot to mention that this system also integrates directly with the United States postal Service. If you ask for a quote and the weight is less than 70 lbs you will also receive a quote from the USPS. The postage discounts we offer are the same as commercial plus pricing where available. That is the best USPS Discount available!

You can ship both priority mail and express mail and instantly track them as well. You can instantly quote print and ship all LTL freight.

For multi location companies you can add users based on location and control there access. If you want your employee to be able to view shipments but not book them you will have that capability.

Did I forget to mention that this system also integrates directly with the United States postal Service? If you ask for a quote and the weight is less than 70 lbs you will also receive a quote from the USPS. The postage discounts we offer are the same as commercial plus pricing where available. That is the best USPS Discount available!

Get the best USPS Discount available! Did I forget to mention that this system also integrates directly with the United States postal Service? If you ask for a quote and the weight is less than 70 lbs you will also receive a quote from the USPS. The postage discounts we offer are the same as commercial plus pricing where available.

In just a few day approval process your company will receive a username and password to our online freight quotes system. This web based portal can be accessed from any computer as long as you have your username and password.

All these services are completely free. There is not any limitations to the amount of quotes you receive. You are only charged for the shipments you actually make.

Spider Ship is proud to boast access to all of the top carriers though our online freight quotes system. A very technologically advanced online freight quotes system.

No surcharges: no fuel surcharges, no Saturday surcharges, no residential surcharges, no rural surcharges; no address correction fees, UPS charges $2.05 for residential ground and $2.40 residential air; 33% of all ground deliveries are residential

Flat rates available: small, medium, and large boxes are available with the USPS’s Priority Service so the customer does not need a scale to determine package cost upfront

Insurance coverage: automatic $100 worth of insurance on every package through Express mail.

Faster service: UPS and FedEx Ground offer a 1-5 day transit time, FedEx SmartPost offers a 2-7 day transit time, USPS Priority offers a 2-3 day transit time

Great package security: stealing packages from the USPS is a federal offense, a more severe crime than stealing from FedEx or UPS; the USPS has the lowest claims ratio of loss/damage in the industry.

Workforce of drivers is stable: drivers are a familiar, trusted presence in communities who are employees of the USPS unlike FedEx Home Delivery drivers who are contractors and individual owners.

Full tracking: online delivery confirmation and signature confirmation tracking available

Full tracking: online delivery confirmation and signature confirmation tracking available.

State-of-the-art technology: easy online shipping available through United Shipping Solutions; the USPS recently invested $1B scanner technology

Customized packaging: free customized, co-branded packaging available to qualified customers

Additional pickups each week: USPS has full pickup up and delivery service 6 days per week, a 20% advantage over UPS and FedEx, or 52 extra delivery days per year. That is nearly two extra months of delivery.

On demand pickups available: customized late pickups available

Industry leadership: the USPS currently carries 65% of the 2-3 day delivery market and is by far the most preferred carrier for online consumers (15% higher than UPS, 500% more than FedEx); the USPS handles 30% of UPS’s residential deliveries and all of FedEx’s SmartPost deliveries. They are each others biggest customers.

Driver workforce: drivers are a familiar, trusted presence in communities who are employees of the USPS.

Holiday and Sunday service: Sunday and holiday delivery available with the USPS’s Express Service.

Earth conscious: the USPS uses bio-friendly inks, recycles 1 ton of material per year, and operates the largest alternative fuel vehicle fleet in the U.S.

Spider Ship is proud to boast access to all of the top carriers though our online freight quotes system. A very technologically advanced online freight quotes system.

Intermodal volume on U.S. Railroads reached a new 2010 high in the week ending August 21. Intermodal shipments were up 22.4 percent compared to the same week in 2009 and up 2.6 percent compared to the same week in 2008.

The manufacturing sector expanded in August for the 13th consecutive month, with the ISM’s Purchasing Managers Index registering 56.3 percent, following July’s 55.5 percent. A reading over 50 percent symbolizes general expansion while a reading under 50 percent symbolized general contraction. Fuel has decreased 0.007 from last week. Based off of Echo’s Fuel Scale, we will be paying 31 cents per mile.

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index improved in August to 53.5 from 50.4 in July. The data reflects Americans having a more positive outlook on the economy.

The manufacturing sector expanded in August for the 13th consecutive month, with the ISM’s Purchasing Managers Index registering 56.3 percent, following July’s 55.5 percent. A reading over 50 percent symbolizes general expansion while a reading under 50 percent symbolized general contraction. Fuel has decreased 0.007 from last week. Based off of Echo’s Fuel Scale, we will be paying 31 cents per mile.

Intermodal Hits New 2010 High

Last week we received a slew of data which really set a more encouraging outlook for the economy. This was a huge relief after experiencing an August of back to back negativity in the news, and widespread talk of a double dip recession. While a double dip in the economy is beginning to seem less and less likely, any growth is still likely to be quite modest. Retail sales numbers for August are looking encouraging yet economists were mixed on how much back-to-school demand there would be to drive sales. We are in anticipation of the US Census Bereau’s report on August retail sales scheduled to be released September 14th. Stronger sales in August could suggest a stronger peak season can expected in the rest of the year.

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ISM’S Purchasing Managers Index registered 56.3 percent, following July’s reading of 55.5 percent. A reading above 50 percent indicates that the manufacturing economy is generally expanding.

Spider Ship is proud to boast access to all of the top carriers though our online freight quotes system. A very technologically advanced online freight quotes system.

As environmental changes grow more and more obvious and talk of decisive action to reduce global warming more and more urgent, industries seem to move towards more environmentally friendly practices. This tendency can be seen nationwide as well as world wide, especially with large established companies in prosperous countries. Hybrid cars are so enormously popular that dealers have to manage long lists of customers eager to contribute to the campaign.

Landfill waste and energy consumption is reduced through green homebuilding, which seems to have caught on. Cities start campaign such as those meant to reduce electricity consumption by up to 80% through replacement of regular light bulbs for more effective and economic innovative illumination. One can see great transparent plastic containers in public squares half-filled with discarded bulbs or batteries.

Auto shipping companies are keeping up their end to planetary salvation perhaps because they are such a recent entrant into major industrial operations they have fine tuned sensibilities toward the depletion of natural resources and the pollution of our environment. They have actually been engaged in a campaign to reduce global warming since their operations have expanded so recently. They do so quietly and without hoopla.

Perhaps it is because they realize how tremendous and industry they currently are and what tremendous potential they still possess, and what they might mean for the near, exponentially-developing future, and probably because of recent investigations into the monstrous environmental pollution by carrier ships and trucks, perhaps because of this and their desire to survive as a mega-industry the collapse of which can incur a full-blown crisis, that they have fairly long since decided to be on the only one right side of the struggle, the environmentally safe side.

One rather large auto shipping company has the ability to save up to three million gallons of fuel by some estimations, thereby reducing greenhouse gases by 38 million pounds that would otherwise drift into our atmosphere. The expansion of the industry is a given and with the increasing globalization of our society, their future looks secure. They must expand in a most environmentally friendly way.

The benefits derived from environmentally friendly auto shipping companies alone are staggering even using simple math to calculate them. In the theoretical case of only one auto shipping company per state national savings would be approximately 150 million gallons of fuel prudently unused and as much as 2 billion pounds of greenhouse gases prevented from poisoning the atmosphere. You do not have to do the actual math to see that if only half of all existing national auto shipping companies united in the effort the results could be staggering savings and crucial progress towards a greener technological civilization.

Obviously, there is an incredible number of personal vehicles being driven on the roads today. There is no one industry that can save us all. But those industries taking the lead in environmentally clean practices should be very proud of their achievements and will stand as an example to other industries to become future-oriented as well. These green industries just may make the transition to becoming technologically and environmentally innovative while remaining in the upper echelons of the industrial world.

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