Nestle Purina PetCare

Home Depot, Whirlpool, HNI earn top Shipper of Choice honors

Increased hours of operation at distribution centers and open communication with drivers are the common denominators among three public companies that specialize in consumer goods and office products.

Those and other attributes focusing on the driver experience earned The Home Depot, Whirlpool and HNI Corp. best-of-the-best honors in the FreightWaves 2020 Shipper of Choice Awards, sponsored by Transflo.

The 2020 FreightWaves Shipper of Choice seal of approval is based on how shippers perform in...

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Nestle Water and Nestle Purina Petcare: Shippers of Choice prioritize efficient driver interactions

Every year, Nestle Waters U.S. moves 790,000 shipments of bottled water across North America. To make those deliveries happen, the brand works with more than 300 trucking companies, striving to ensure that each interaction with drivers meets the Nestle gold standard for carrier relations.

“My goal is to get the driver in and out,” Ken Rogers, Nestle Waters’ director of transportation, told FreightWaves. “That’s everyone’s goal, from the transport manager to the warehouse manager, to the dock...

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Hours of operation, communication are hallmarks of Shipper of Choice Availability winners

Increased hours of operation and open communication with carriers are hallmarks of top shippers. The companies that named as winners of FreightWaves’ Shipper of Choice Availability Award winners are among the best in the nation in meeting these criteria.

The Shipper of Choice Awards are sponsored by Transflo. Winners were announced this morning during the FreightWaves LIVE@Home virtual conference.

The winners of the Availability Award are (in alphabetical order):

  • Agri-Mark
  • Beam Suntory
  • Cargill...

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