Asset-based carriers are gaining prominence in the current business landscape because they offer complementary services like warehouse space, distribution, and value-added services. In contrast, the logistics space is also witnessing a mushrooming of brokerage-based partners for their overall service flexibility and customer-centricity. Ultimately, every shipper aims to ensure products are delivered undamaged and on time. However, with so many vendors to choose from, businesses need help determining the partner best suited to their needs.

Simplifying this is Makt-Trans Freight & Brokerage, a full-service provider of transportation services, including both asset- and brokerage-based solutions that focus on customer care, on-time delivery, and precision. Makt-Trans primarily focuses on over-the-road, full truckload, and flatbed services.

Makt-Trans assists customers looking to operate with the efficiency of a private fleet while outsourcing all aspects of fleet management adapted to their specific needs. This helps a business run more effectively by mitigating the cost of fleet maintenance, management, and hiring drivers. On the brokerage side, Makt-Trans offers unmatched services with a consultative approach, ensuring its in-house team of skilled operations professionals finds and secures the most effective and economical transportation solutions.

Makt-Trans strategically vets and sources all partner carriers and ensures top-notch services, focusing on safety, compliance, and environmental responsibility and creating real value across customers, shareholders, and employees. The company operates nationally and focuses on utilizing the most effective transportation services to enhance a customer's overall supply chain, both forward and reverse.

By combining services with affiliates Tellworks Logistics and AIMSPlus Software, Makt-Trans can offer a more comprehensive, cost-competitive, and efficient end-to-end solution than just focusing on transportation alone.

"We leverage our relationships to offer customers the best price and most cost-effective solution. I think what differentiates us are the options we provide and how we tailor them to customer needs," says Drew Smith, CEO, Makt-Trans.

Makt-Trans also emphasizes compliance with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulations and possesses best-in-class insurance coverage. Its fleet is equipped with state-of-the-art electronic logging devices (ELD) and cameras to comply with hour of service (HoS) rules that safeguard drivers, equipment, and cargo.

"We're not prescribing how transportation should be executed for our customers. We're trying to understand the needs of our customers, affiliates, drivers, and carriers to ensure that we've created the winning solution with all stakeholder interests in mind," states Smith.

Recently, Makt-Trans collaborated with a customer to improve their supply chain through better collection, transportation, and more centralized disposition of used and surplus materials. By combining transportation with warehousing services from Tellworks Logistics, leveraging their extensive network of market staging locations in major metropolitan areas, Makt-Trans helped streamline the reverse logistics process to reduce overall cost and provide more reliable, end-to-end tracking of materials.

At the heart of these successes is Makt-Trans' experience and long-standing relationships, proven to overcome a vast array of customer challenges through timely and expertise-backed decision-making. Moving forward, it intends to assist companies through its distribution management competencies and improve customer satisfaction by making it easier for customers to conduct logistics in the ever-evolving business landscape.