Burns Logistics

Connecting through relationships – Taking the Hire Road

On this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, Ed Burns, CEO of Burns Logistics, sat down with Jeremy Reymer, founder of DriverReach and Project 61, to discuss the importance of building relationships and being a connector in the trucking industry in order to help solve problems.

Burns was raised with family in the trucking industry. His father was a salesman at a freight company and would often bring the children along with him on sales calls. “We’d go to manufacturers, we’d go to lunches,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/connecting-through-relationships-taking-the-hire-road

Check Call: The 4-day workweek and the supply chain

Welcome to Check Call, our corner of the internet for all things 3PL, freight broker and supply chain. Check Call the podcast comes out every Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. EDT. Catch up on previous episodes here. If this was forwarded to you, sign up for Check Call the newsletter here.

Inside this edition: What a 32-hour workweek looks like for the supply chain; the weight of Easter candy; and Mexico collects another auto manufacturer. 

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Picture this, it’s 1926, when Henry Ford po...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-the-4-day-workweek-and-the-supply-chain

Big change in Burns-town: Son succeeds dad as head of trucking sales firm

A popular father-and-son trucking logistics sales team is making a big change under the family rig.

Ed Burns, a multidecade veteran whose height and size long ago spawned the nickname “Big Ed,” will assume the new position of chief relationship officer, effective immediately, Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania-based company Burns Logistics said.

His son, who is Ed Jr. but goes by the moniker “Young Ed,” becomes chief executive officer to replace his father.

Big Ed founded Burns Logistics in the midst...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/big-change-in-burns-town-son-succeeds-dad-as-head-of-logistics-firm