My dad was a truck driver, but before that, he was a truck mechanic. My mother told us countless stories of him being called out in the middle of the night to drive to where a truck had broken down on the side of the highway to try to repair it. It was dangerous and …
At Legion, we love to build relationships. We’ve never been a brokerage focused on transactional freight – we want to get to know our customers, and to help them grow and develop. Our first customers, a decade ago, were small businesses, many of whom had never moved anything larger than a UPS box before. We …
WIn today’s work of just-in-time inventory and incredibly tight supply chains, route planning is more important than ever. Fewer customers are receiving full truckloads of freight, and more and more drivers are having to make multiple stops on their routes. But planning routes, whether they are regular or just every once in a while, is …
Ten years ago, when I first started brokering freight, I had a customer who made shaving cream and was trying to get it on the shelves in Bed Bath & Beyond and CVS. He’d never shipped more than a few small boxes at a time, and was suddenly looking at sending half a truckload of …
One of the (many) benefits of having more than 33,000 carriers in our database is that we can find a driver pretty much anywhere in the United States on very short notice. This comes in handy every day, but especially on a day when one of our customers has a true emergency. We’ve gotten lots …
I think we can all agree that one of the worst feelings in the world is having a question for one of your vendors and not being able to get anyone to answer the phone to sort things out. We’ve all been sucked into that vicious cycle of phone tag and voice mails and having …
This past week, I was reminded of an important fact. My employees are people, too. I like to think that I do a pretty good job of being aware that my folks have lives outside of Legion. I know most of their kids’ names (some of them aren’t real chatty or open, so it’s a …
Florence, KY – Legion Logistics has acquired Qontinuity Enterprises, LLC, a third-party logistics brokerage based in Dandridge, Tennessee. Legion will grow more than 10 percent with the addition of Qontinuity. All operations will be based in Florence, Kentucky, where Legion has its headquarters. This acquisition is the first step in an ongoing growth plan for …
A weird thing is happening to me this week. I keep getting caught up. My email inbox is completely empty, my to-do lists are crossed off, my errands are even getting done. It’s like I’ve entered some kind of weird Twilight Zone where efficiency intersects with the natural late-summer slowness that takes over every year …