Sat.Jan 30, 2010 - Fri.Feb 05, 2010

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10 Fundamentals Beyond Price in Contract Negotiations

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Michael J. Stolarczyk Kontane Logistics www.kontanelogistics.com It’s that time of year again — time to negotiate carrier contracts! Too often, business leaders focus their attention on rate structures during carrier-contract negotiations while ignoring other important facets of the carrier process. Failure to address the entire scope of the carrier process can cause a business to fall short when trying to meet certain goals.

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Kontane Logistics Initiates Daimler 3pl Sequencing Project

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We started the Daimler Truck North America tire sequencing project today, February 1, 2010. Our first truck was loaded around 10:15 with tires going to the Freightliner plant in Cleveland, NC. We will be mounting, sequencing roughly 800 tires per day, bound for the three Freightliner truck manufacturing plants in the Carolina's (Gaffney, Mt. Holly, and Clevelend).

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