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Welcome to Last 2 First, the podcast dedicated to exploring the final mile in logistics and the unique challenges faced by business owners in this vital industry.
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Why Cutting Back-Office Costs Is The Only Lever Logistics Owners Have Left (Part 3) | Remotely+ (opens the original)
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Labor is one of the biggest costs in this industry, and in Part 3 of the Remotely+ series, Jason Burns and the team get to the heart of it: trust, and the strategic reason nearshore talent is the one cost a logistics owner can still cut. Learn more or find talent: https://www.remotelyplus.com As Matt puts it, a mid-sized logistics owner is stuck. You can't get your trucks any cheaper, you can't pay your drivers any less, and you can't raise your prices. The only lever left is the back office, an
He Delivers For More Than Half The Fortune 20 | Tyler Thatcher, Western Peaks Logistics | Last2First (opens the original)
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Tyler Thatcher didn't come from transportation. He built his early career in technology, riding the software wave through the dot-com crash, then spent time in private equity before buying a small final mile courier company in 2011, knowing almost nothing about the industry. Days after closing, DHL dropped them, wiping out about 20% of the revenue overnight. That was his introduction to logistics. Today, Tyler is President of Western Peaks Logistics, operating 17 facilities across six Western st
Truck Leasing vs Buying: Why Owning Your Fleet Is Costing You More | Wayne Posten | Last2First (opens the original)
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Wayne Posten spent 32 years in home delivery before building the company he runs today. He started on a truck in Atlantic City in the early '90s, became a contractor, and worked his way up to Chief Operating Officer of his own company and final mile Vice President for a billion-dollar operation. He knows exactly what it costs to be a small operator, because he spent decades as one. Now, as Managing Partner of Final Mile Leasing, Wayne has built an alternative to the big truck rental companies, o
How Nearshore Talent Turns A $72K Hire Into $30K (Part 2) | Remotely+ | Last2First (opens the original)
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Labor is one of the biggest costs in this industry. In Part 2 of our Remotely+ series, Jason Burns and co-founders Steve Schoeffler and Matt Cohen get into the economics, exactly how the savings work and where the up to 70% actually comes from. Learn more or find talent: https://www.remotelyplus.com The founders break down the real math. A customer service or dispatch role runs a flat $2,400 to $2,500 a month through Remotely+, roughly $30,000 a year, with nothing on top. The same role hired dom
How He Built The #1 Podcast In Trucking With 50 Million Downloads | Rahmel Wattley | Last2First (opens the original)
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In this episode you will learn how a passion project became the biggest media brand in trucking, how to grow a niche audience that advertisers actually pay for, why relationships open more doors than resumes, and what most brands get wrong when they sponsor a podcast. In a role reversal, host Jason Burns turns the mic on Rahmel Wattley, founder and CEO of Truck N' Hustle, the number one media platform at the intersection of transportation, logistics, technology, and culture. Rahmel started with
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