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Are you a Group A personality?

It’s no secret that times have been very tough for freight transport operators in recent years - in fact, we’ve written about it often in these very pages. As 2025 kicks off in earnest though, perhaps it’s worth reminding ourselves that a very large number of hauliers have gone into administration and that's because, like all businesses going through periods of turmoil and change, there are 3 basic routes that a company can take, each of which will put them in one of these 3 groups*:


Group A - a small proportion of companies that will thrive and grow


Group B - a sadly greater proportion of companies that succumb to market forces and go to the wall


Group C - the remainder who manage to struggle on this time round, but who are at great risk of joining Group B on the next turn of the wheel


Our contention is that most transport operators are failing to adapt to change as it happens, and as a result a significant number of them are going to fall into Group B, of if exceptionally lucky, Group C (this time). But there is one elementary step that operators can take to avoid that fate, namely to simplify and reduce their risk in areas that are easily managed via a SaaS-based transport management system (TMS). In this way, their IT requirements are no longer a major drain on their time and resources and, furthermore, they can benefit from sharing best practices across their entire customer base. There’s another big bonus too: they won't have to pay major additional costs for the additional features such a TMS can bestow.


Three red trucks labeled A, B, C drive through smoke on a road to illustrate this article about how a SaaS-based TMS can enable freight transport operators to choose the right group to weather the current tough economic climate.

So, we say adapt and join your freight transport peers in Group A or face the consequences. If you’re wondering how to do that, contact CarrierNet’s Bashir Khan right here and he’ll happily give you a free demo of just what’s possible.


*A shout-out to Paul Freeston on LinkedIn for identifying these groups.


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