Procuring logistics services is not the same as buying paper clips

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Quite – the title of this article could almost have been a quote from a previous Loadstar story. The examples of shippers demanding greater value and lower costs from their freight service providers are legion and increasingly unsettling, because if anything it looks disturbingly like a race to the bottom has been inaugurated by the very parties who continually claim they don’t want their suppliers engaged in a race to the bottom. “There is no incentive for 3PLs to be ...