It may seem like the world is your oyster when it comes to transportation, where a wide selection of options is at your avail. However, a closer look will reveal an environment where driver shortages, lack of capacity, electronic logging mandates, and other forces are making transportation selection more challenging than ever. Some choices are more accessible and affordable than others, while some require a lot of work and effort to secure, administer, and maintain. Regardless of your preferred transportation strategies, a fast-growing warehouse company like Lineage Logistics can help you make the best decisions, save money, and reduce the amount of manpower that goes into your selections.

1. Reasons Why You Should Buy
Transportation from the Fastest-
Growing Warehouse Company6

2. Lineage 6 Reasons Why You Should Buy Transportation from the Fastest Growing Warehouse Company
SIX REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BUY
TRANSPORTATION FROM THE FASTEST-
GROWING WAREHOUSE COMPANY.
It may seem like the world is your oyster when it comes to transportation, where a wide selection of
options is at your avail. However, a closer look will reveal an environment where driver shortages,
lack of capacity, electronic logging mandates, and other forces are making transportation selection
more challenging than ever.
Some choices are more accessible and affordable than others, while some require a lot of work and
effort to secure, administer, and maintain. Regardless of your preferred transportation strategies, a
fast-growing warehouse company like Lineage Logistics can help you make the best decisions, save
money, and reduce the amount of manpower that goes into your selections.
Engineering Optimal Food Supply Chains
Food must arrive safely, on time, at the quality standard, and at a competitive cost: key criteria to
the success of your cold chain. Getting all of those pieces of the puzzle in order requires a highly-
specialized transportation management approach that factors technology, best practices, and
operational expertise.
With decades of experience in the food industry—and supported by a network of North American
carriers that are equally as dedicated to your industry—we can help you.

4. Lineage 6 Reasons Why You Should Buy Transportation from the Fastest Growing Warehouse Company
ENGINEERTHE OPTIMAL SUPPLY CHAIN
SOLUTION BY STARTING WITH A CLEAN PLATE
1Don’t keep piling new technologies and opportunities atop an inefficient transportation strategy.
Using modern equipment, cutting-edge Transportation Management Systems (TMS), and a network
that accommodates temperature-controlled and dry freight, we help you develop a transportation
strategy that incorporates full truckload (TL), less-than-truckload (LTL), pool distribution, drayage,
and intermodal options.
Whether you need to better manage transportation, inventory, distribution, or every step in your
supply chain, a trusted and experienced third-party logistics provider (3PL) can synchronize everything
from the source of raw materials to point-of-manufacturing to the point-of-sale.
Focused on minimizing the complexity in your logistics infrastructure, we allow you to do what you
do best: making and distributing quality food products for your customers.

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LEVERAGE THE NATION’S FASTEST-GROWING
REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSE NETWORK
As a food shipper, getting fresh, frozen, or dry goods to their final destinations quickly and safely
is a top concern. To achieve this goal, you need access to the nation’s fastest-growing refrigerated
warehouse network.
As North America’s second-largest temperature-controlled warehousing company, Lineage Logistics
maintains 518 million cubic feet of freezer and cooler capacity. Facilities are strategically located
in all the major and secondary markets, where timely and accurate temperature-control of all major
food commodities—including beef, poultry, pork, seafood, bakery products, ice cream, fruits, and
vegetables—is a top priority.
Specially designed with multi-temperature rooms to accommodate a range of different temperature
and humidity needs for all varieties of products, these temperature-controlled facilities are rail-served
and many are equipped with the latest technology in high-capacity blast freezing, thus enabling
enhanced speed-to-delivery.
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ADD THE COMPETITIVE CAPACITY OF
MORE THAN 40,000 CARRIERS
Today’s environment is no longer about how well an organization can negotiate transportation rates.
What is required for success is data, access to the right capacity, and intelligence regarding how
that capacity is operated in the transportation ecosystem. Thanks to cloud-based platforms, food
shippers now have literally thousands of carriers—and multiple modalities—to select from.
But sifting through the options takes time and money that you can’t afford to spare in today’s competitive
business environment. By leveraging our network of more than 40,000 regional and national carriers,
shippers, and forwarders, you’ll be able to more efficiently and effectively negotiate your LTL, TL, IM, and
expedited shipments, and tailor those relationships to meet the needs of your supply.
That means you’ll get the fastest transit times, best rates, and most economical routes for all your
food related goods.
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MIX IN STRATEGIC MARKET CONSOLIDATION
AND DISTRIBUTION CENTERS
Moving food from Point A to Point B doesn’t always take a direct route, nor does it always require full
truckloads. Many retailers and food service distributors don’t always order that way. Unfortunately,
non-truckload options are usually more expensive.
Here’s where pool distribution (where shippers move product down the road to a regional 3PL
consolidation center, and that freight is combined onto a single vehicle for the remainder of
the trip) and consolidated last-mile transportation (where a 3PL loads one truck with multiple
vendor orders for the same destination) come in, and help companies combine smaller volumes
into full truckloads.
These and other market consolidation strategies—combined with Lineage’s strategically located
DCs—allow food shippers to take advantage of TL rates, even if they can’t fill a truck. By combining
temperature-controlled shipments from numerous companies, we deliver all of your shipments to
the same destination in the food supply chain in the most efficient manner possible.
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CREATE CONTROL WITH CLOUD-BASED
TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
The need for real-time supply chain visibility is at an all-time high in the supply chain, where
visibility into orders, shipments, and transportation networks helps food companies answer
questions like:
ɟɟ Where is my order/shipment?
ɟɟ Is it moving according to plan or is there a disruption?
ɟɟ What is the accurate estimated time of arrival?
ɟɟ And, will it be there on-time and in full?
Using cloud-based technologies for the management of transportation, we help improve and
strengthen your food supply chain by making data readily available to all stakeholders, including
your customers, as needed. This, in turn, helps you:
ɟɟ Fully leverage opportunities to optimize freight to reduce costs.
ɟɟ Increase accountability and efficiency.
ɟɟ Expedite your time-to-market.
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DRIVE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT WITH
APPLIED SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
A method for identifying opportunities for streamlining work and reducing waste, continuous
improvement is a top-of-mind imperative for many companies.
The food supply chain is particularly ripe for continuous improvement. For example, the time it
takes for a shipment to enter the supply chain until it is delivered to its final destination (i.e., dock-to-
dock time) is primarily “waste.”
This is why Lineage applies scientific knowledge to the issue to develop workable, agile solutions that
help your company work smarter, better, and faster.
The New Lineage
A critical element in the food supply chain, transportation is about more than just getting competitive
bids and picking a carrier.
It’s about being able to quickly respond to the changing dynamics of your business, its customers,
suppliers, and operations, and then developing an individualized approach that puts your company
heads and shoulders above the competition. Only through having access to relevant data and
the ability to apply the latest, most creative scientific methodologies can you obtain that valued
differentiation in the market.
And that’s the new Lineage of Transportation Management Services.
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