3PL Managed Logistics Services
Managed Logistics Backed by Real Transportation Experience
Buchanan Hauling & Rigging, Inc. provides in house 3PL managed logistics services for businesses that need help planning, coordinating, and managing freight transportation. Our logistics team works directly with customers to manage shipments, coordinate capacity, monitor freight, and support transportation programs ranging from individual loads to ongoing shipping operations.
Because Buchanan Hauling is also an asset based motor carrier, our logistics operation is backed by decades of firsthand trucking experience. We understand equipment, capacity, routing, driver operations, customer facilities, specialized freight, and the challenges that can affect a shipment between pickup and delivery.
3PL Services Built Around Your Freight
Every transportation program has different requirements. Some businesses need additional capacity during busy periods. Others need help coordinating recurring freight, managing multiple shipping locations, tracking loads, or handling a mix of transportation services.
Buchanan's in house managed logistics team can support:
- Full truckload freight coordination
- Less than truckload freight coordination
- Carrier sourcing and capacity coordination
- Freight scheduling and shipment management
- Recurring lane and transportation planning
- Dry van and flatbed freight management
- Expedited freight coordination
- Specialized and heavy haul transportation planning
- Shipment tracking and status communication
- Pickup and delivery coordination
- Transportation exception management
- Freight activity reporting
Our goal is to give shippers one experienced team that can help organize transportation, communicate shipment activity, and respond when freight requirements change.
Freight Brokerage and Carrier Coordination
Buchanan Hauling's managed logistics services can extend beyond freight moved on Buchanan equipment. When additional capacity or equipment is required, our logistics team can, adjust, and coordinate transportation with qualified carrier partners as part of the customer's freight program. This provides our customers with the best of both worlds.
Carrier selection considers the requirements of the shipment, including equipment, service area, timing, freight type, and other transportation needs. This gives customers access to additional capacity while maintaining a central point of contact for shipment coordination and communication.
For businesses moving both regular truckload freight and more specialized shipments, this flexibility can help keep transportation organized without forcing every load into the same solution.
Freight Planning and Transportation Management
Strong freight management begins with understanding how a business actually ships. Origin and destination patterns, freight volume, equipment requirements, customer appointments, seasonal changes, delivery expectations, and special handling needs can all affect transportation performance.
Buchanan works with customers to identify those requirements and build a transportation process around them. For recurring freight programs, this can improve consistency in how shipments are scheduled, assigned, monitored, and communicated.
Transportation management can also help businesses with multiple facilities or changing freight volumes coordinate activity across their operation rather than treating every shipment as a separate event.
Asset Based Capacity Adds Another Option
Buchanan Hauling is an asset based carrier with more than 200 power units and more than 900 trailers supporting dry van, flatbed, expedited, specialized, and heavy haul transportation.
That asset base gives our logistics team another transportation option when planning freight. When Buchanan equipment, capacity, and service requirements align with the shipment, freight can be handled through our own trucking operation. When another solution is more appropriate, our logistics team can coordinate additional transportation options based on the customer's needs.
This combination of trucking operations and in house logistics experience gives Buchanan a practical understanding of both freight planning and the realities of moving freight on the road.
Review our freight transportation services for more information about Buchanan's asset based capabilities.
Managed Logistics Across Multiple Freight Types
Dry Van and Flatbed Freight
Buchanan can coordinate dry van and flatbed freight for businesses with recurring lanes, changing volumes, scheduled pickups, customer appointments, or equipment specific requirements. When Buchanan equipment is appropriate for the shipment, our dry van and flatbed trucking services can also support the transportation plan.
Expedited Freight
Urgent shipments can disrupt even a well planned transportation program. Buchanan's logistics team can help coordinate time sensitive freight when production schedules, customer commitments, inventory shortages, or other circumstances require faster transportation. Learn more about our expedited freight transportation services.
Specialized and Heavy Haul Freight
Oversized, overweight, regulated, or unusually configured freight requires additional planning. Equipment selection, dimensions, weight, permits, routing, loading methods, escorts, and delivery site conditions may all affect the transportation plan.
Buchanan's logistics operation can coordinate these projects alongside routine freight while drawing on the company's experience in specialized freight transportation and heavy haul trucking.
Shipment Visibility and Communication
Transportation management depends on knowing what is happening after a shipment is scheduled. Buchanan combines transportation technology with communication from our logistics and operations teams to help customers monitor freight from pickup through delivery.
When transportation does not go according to plan, our team works to identify the issue, communicate changes, and coordinate the next steps. For businesses managing recurring freight, shipment activity can also help identify problem lanes, changing capacity requirements, or areas where additional planning may improve performance.
Supply Chain Coordination That Starts with Transportation
Buchanan's managed logistics services focus on the transportation side of the supply chain. We help customers coordinate how freight moves between suppliers, facilities, distribution points, customers, and project locations.
A manufacturer may need recurring inbound materials and scheduled outbound freight. A construction or energy customer may require routine truckload transportation along with occasional specialized moves. Another business may need additional capacity during seasonal peaks or help coordinating freight across several facilities.
Rather than applying the same approach to every customer, Buchanan reviews the freight operation and builds transportation support around the way that business actually ships.
Buchanan Hauling and Buchanan Logistics
Buchanan Hauling & Rigging, Inc. and Buchanan Logistics, Inc. are sister companies, but they operate as separate businesses.
The 3PL managed logistics services described on this page are provided by Buchanan Hauling & Rigging, Inc. through its own in house logistics operation. Buchanan Logistics, Inc. separately provides freight brokerage and third party logistics services through its own organization.
Customers working with either company should refer to the applicable company agreement, terms, and transportation documentation for the services being provided.
Experience Behind the Freight Plan
Buchanan Hauling & Rigging was founded in 1996 and has grown from one truck and two trailers into a nationwide transportation company. That experience gives our logistics team practical knowledge of equipment, scheduling, freight facilities, driver operations, specialized transportation, and the challenges that can affect shipments on the road.
Learn more about our company on the About Buchanan page and the principles behind our operation through our Mission and Family Values.
“It was a pleasure to work with this carrier on this load. The communication from the dispatcher was solid. We received the necessary updates. The driver provided excellent tracking from start to finish. Looking forward to working with them again.” – S.H.
When Does 3PL Managed Logistics Make Sense?
Managed logistics may be a good fit when your business has recurring freight, multiple shipping locations, changing capacity requirements, several equipment needs, or a growing amount of internal time devoted to transportation coordination.
It can also help when routine dry van or flatbed freight needs to be managed alongside expedited, specialized, or heavy haul shipments within the same transportation program.
Buchanan can review your current freight activity, transportation requirements, and service expectations to determine where managed logistics can support your operation.
Talk with Buchanan About Managed Logistics
Whether you need help coordinating individual shipments, recurring freight, additional capacity, multiple transportation services, or a larger freight program, Buchanan Hauling & Rigging can review your operation and discuss the level of logistics support you need.
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