Name: Michael McGuire Title: Director, Client Solutions Education: Bachelor of Science, Finance, concentration in logistics, Central Michigan University (1994) Number of Years with Cardinal: Industry Experience: Over 20 years of logistics experience in the military and third party logistics Before Cardinal: Director of Logistics Engineering for Ryder at the Toyota Account in Georgetown, KY Landing […]
Collaboration as Part of Your RFP Process
Collaboration is defined as: To work together on a project or mission whereby information and ideas are openly shared so as to produce an optimal situation or outcome. If you are not using your Request for Proposal (RFP) process to collaborate with select vendors, you are minimizing the potential benefits of the exercise. Obviously, there […]
Flock Files – Meet Anthony Flynn – A Member of Our Flock
Name: Anthony Flynn Title: Director Business Development Education: MBA, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Bachelor of Business Administration, Management Information Systems, University of Georgia, Athens, GA Industry Experience: 12+ years in various sales, marketing and operations roles in Retail, Transportation and Entrepreneurial ventures Number of Years with Cardinal: 6 and some change Things You Did Not […]
Preparing for the Future of Logistics Mobility Solutions
Did you miss our recent webinar: The Next Generation of Logistics Mobility Solutions, the End of iDEN: What’s Next? If your company is currently using an iDEN device, soon you will be forced to implement a new hardware solution. Have you considered how this hardware change will affect the software you currently use or are […]
Pool Point Distribution Applied to a High Service, Multi-stop Network
Compared to a traditional DC network or an LTL model, Pool Point Distribution offers shippers a flexible, efficient and cost-effective distribution solution. Here is a snapshot of the advantages of Pool Point Distribution: Linehaul costs are reduced by “fluid loading” (floor-loaded) shipments to pool points where they are processed and routed locally; thus, improving route […]
***CARDINAL DRIVER ESSAY CONTEST WINNER***
THE RESULTS ARE IN! We appreciate each Cardinal driver who participated in this contest. After receiving over 800 comments combined from our Blog, Cardinal associates and partners, we are thrilled to announce the winner of the Safe Driving Essay Contest. ~ DRUM ROLL PLEASE ~ The Winner of the contest and the $1,000 reward is… […]
Cardinal Driver Essay Contest
VOTING RULES Cast your vote by providing a comment below this blog entry. Include the driver’s first and last name in your comment. Only one vote per person will be counted! Votes will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday, September 23. The winning essay will be announced Monday, September 24. ______________________________________________________ Greg […]
15 Years of Excellence
Do Some Bird Watching and See Us Continue to Soar Above the Rest For over 782.662 weeks/5,478.63 days/131,487 hours this “old bird” has delivered quality service all across this beautiful country. It is safe to say we have spread our wings over a lot of asphalt in the past 15 years. Whether it was building […]
Keeping Waste to a Minimum: Seven Ways to Recycle on the Road
Remember when you learned about the 3 Rs in grade school? Reduce, reuse, recycle. Then as truck drivers we learn about another R – reducing wasted fuel. These words have served as guides throughout our daily lives. Reducing the amount of waste we create and recycling what we use are ways we can shrink our […]
Is There a Sunscreen with SPF 600?
Mentioning the infamous ‘trucker tan,’ where one arm from the sleeve downward is tanned more than the other arm due to driving with the windows down, can elicit a case of the giggles, but it turns out this tan line might not be so funny after all. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in […]
