Tag: grocery loads

Business

Red Rover, Red Rover, send George right over

Load negotiation as playground game — and an extra push that misses the mark…

September 19, 2014

Business

Educational opportunity at the grocery

For want of JIT load: “I watched a little kid have a near seizure because there were no Lucky Charms on the shelf. (I myself was somewhat disappointed, but refrained from throwing myself to the floor and screaming, unlike the kid.)”

July 24, 2013

Business

To lump or not to lump, that is the question

George pays a $215 lumper fee, and Wendy gets a good story out of it. “They’re now called ‘freight handlers,’ I’m told. You can call ’em The Queen of England, for all I care, it doesn’t change the fact that they’re extortionists.”

July 19, 2013