Oh Crap Situation 25: Logistics!

This isn’t much of an “Oh Crap” situation as it is a basic decision: planes, trains or automobiles? You have been working with a shipping company for a long time, but since gas prices have gone up… so have shipping rates. Trucks have recently gotten quite expensive, and doing long hauls (of over 1,000 miles) have gotten incredibly expensive. Despite the expense, it is still slightly more economical to make those long hauls rather than using something like trains to bring your products to an intermediate point. However, the benefit of potentially being better for the environment …read more