Landstar News & Resources

Landstar celebrated the grand opening of its new 8,000 square foot Field Operations Center in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on Friday, Nov. 15.

As entrepreneurs, Landstar owner-operators never stop moving; not only in the literal sense, but also in terms of education. After all, to stop learning about the ever-changing transportation industry is to risk business stagnation. With Landstar, they always have resources for their businesses within reach at the company’s Field Operations Centers.

Landstar has announced the groundbreaking of its new Field Operations Center in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

A flexible supply chain can help businesses manage the disruptions that are beyond control and focus on what can be controlled to keep freight moving.

This year, Landstar made a few changes to provide more personalized service and enhance communications between business capacity owners (BCOs) and the staff in departments that work closely with them. Each BCO has been domiciled to one of the seven Field Operations Centers throughout North America.

The company you trust your freight with can make or break your supply chain. These are the qualities that you should think about when evaluating your relationship with your transportation provider.

If your company has items to ship but is having a hard time coordinating loads, it may be time to outsource to a 3PL. Follow these tips to find the best transportation provider to fulfill your supply chain demands.

Coordinating the transport of large, heavy, high-value, and time-critical project cargo is a specialty of the Charlotte Express Center Inc., an independent Landstar agency owned and operated by Ike Tate.

“I can do that as a Landstar agent. We can make it so you don’t need to hire a transportation manager,” Johnson told the customer – an industrial manufacturer of mining, ship building and energy power equipment.