From the earliest civilizations to the Industrial Revolution, and all the way through present day, people have focused on how to move goods in a way that maximizes efficiency while minimizing resources. As the logistics landscape evolves into the future, leaders within Atlas Logistics® are not simpl...
Over the years, we have had countless wonderful Professional Van Operators (PVOs) representing Atlas® on the road, and they each held a special place in our hearts. Greg Harvin was certainly one of them. He was with Atlas for 30 years, from 1991 until 2021. Friends remember Greg as a very giving man...
There are many moving parts in the business of logistics. Cargo. Warehouses. Trucks. And miles and miles of highway. But what ultimately fuels all these necessary components are the most important pieces: Agents, customers, and teamwork. Since its founding in 1970, Atlas Logistics® has made it a poi...
From its inception, Atlas Logistics® hasn’t moved anywhere but up. That is unless you count east, west, north, and south as they transport goods across the nation. Today, the company has curated a robust list of core competencies that provide less-than-truckload transportation, truckload transportat...
The last two years shook every industry to its core, mainly because not everyone was prepared for the challenges that would follow: staffing issues, supply chain delays, rapid increases and decreases in demand, and more. The trucking and transportation industry was no exception. Last year it was sho...
In August of this year, Atlas Logistics® welcomed a new company into the Atlas® family with the acquisition of Progressive Transportation, Inc., a premier provider of over-the-road pad-wrap transportation based in Wausau, Wisconsin. Founded in 1995, Progressive Transportation, Inc. has built lasting...
In late February 2020, Atlas Logistics® announced their acquisition of TopHAT Logistical Solutions™, a Wisconsin-based company focused on final-mile home delivery. With only a few weeks until the COVID-19 pandemic closed the world and changed the way society did everything from working to shopping, ...
Atlas enters the e-commerce market with a new logistics program. Consumer behavior is changing in response to the pandemic, with a solid trend toward online ordering and delivery. With the acquisition of a retail home delivery company and a new logistics program streamlining rates and services, Atla...
At the beginning of this year, Atlas Logistics® welcomed a new team into the Atlas® family with the acquisition of TopHAT Logistical Solutions. Founded in 2008 and based in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, TopHAT is a $50 million full-service logistics company that specializes in retail home, or finalmile, d...
Consistent Agent Network Leads to a Diversity of Services. Atlas Logistics® and the agent family have built a wide-reaching network of logistics services from coast to coast. “The biggest advantage for Atlas Logistics is the Atlas® Agent network of warehouses. It’s a national network that lets us se...
Among its many services, Atlas Logistics® serves two distinct shipment needs of the agent family: For Specialized Transportation Group (STG), Logistics locates tonnage for agent trucks and drivers For Household Goods (HHG), the task is to find the best carriers for containerized moves In both cases,...
Did you know the number of Americans age 65 and older will more than double over the next 40 years? This segment currently accounts for about 15 percent of U.S. residents. But it will approach one-fourth of total population by 2060. (Source: Population Reference Bureau Fact Sheet: 1/13/2016) Atlas L...
Jason Kohl, Vice President and General Manager, Titan (left) with Phil Wahl, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Atlas Logistics (right)
The trend at Atlas Logistics® is growth. And it shows no signs of slowing.
Atlas Logistics is committed to developing people to better collaborate on solutions for a client's supply chain. From left: Ben Johnson, Manager, National Accounts, Matt Van der Linde, Vice President, Business Development, and Megan Rinearson, Manager, Logistics Services. You might say the Atlas Lo...
Without adding a single employee?
Final mile service and LTL transportation may seem as compatible as oil and water. But Atlas Logistics is showing how the two can combine and open a new avenue of booking opportunities for Atlas Agents. Call it hybrid thinking—seeing a familiar problem in a new way and using dissimilar ideas to solv...
It’s an ordinary Saturday morning for Mike Baker, Regional Director of Business Development with Atlas Logistics. He gets a call from Jeremy Redd, who oversees shipping at eLuxurySupply. Jeremy has a question about a Less than Truckload (LTL) shipment of bedding bound for an Amazon distribution cent...
Logistics chalks up gains with single-source solutions. Atlas’ 2012 entry in the 3PL arena came as a complement to existing final mile and pad-wrapped services. Fast-forward three years, and the consolidated Atlas Logistics® brand is showing impressive growth. Sales are up a solid 7 percent this yea...
Dedicated Atlas Van Lines veteran, David Coulter, Vice President of STG Sales, announced his retirement after 36 years with the company. David joined Atlas in 1979 as a Dispatcher at Atlas International, and quickly transitioned to fill sales and marketing roles in the specialized transportation mar...