Our Own Expedited Freight Case Studies
Recent real-life examples of how we have helped customers of every description with their last-minute urgent freight shipments by ground and air across the USA. Our professional reputation is based on an outcome where we learn we ‘saved the day’ such as the cases below.
Ensuring a high profile event goes as planned, AR to WA heavy air freight
Freight: One 800 lb Pallet
Service: Second Day Air Freight door to door service (and return)
Location: Arkansas
Distance: 2,015 miles
Transit Time: Scheduled two day heavy air freight
Tasked with organizing a high-profile event for a critical client, you must get your equipment shipped across the country in short order. Any failure to meet the delivery deadline means the show does not go on at great expense to your business. The budget is important but the time frame is even more important.
After contacting TEC you are presented with a budget-conscious urgent air freight option with a high likelihood for success and the contingency plan and associated pricing so you can rest easy at night. Nobody can guarantee you that nothing will go wrong. What TEC can guarantee is that we will be prepared for the inevitable disruptions and be ready to intervene if problems arise with your air freight shipment. Helping you make the best time-critical freight decisions for your business is what we do.
One truck, multiple pickups, delivered IL to TX on time
Freight: Mold & Resin from two locations, 2,900 lb
Service: Dedicated Sprinter van with two separate pick up locations
Location: Schaumburg IL
Distance: 1,405 miles
Transit Time: 40 hours door to door with two pickup stops
It’s Wednesday morning and you have dozens of orders you need to get fulfilled and you’re going to be busy through the weekend trying to get everything out by Monday as promised. Business is great. The only snag? You don’t have the necessary materials at your production facility in Harlingen, TX to complete the orders by their deadlines and the materials you need are at two separate locations in Illinois.
This is where TEC can help keep you up and running. Within minutes of phoning you are provided with multiple expedited freight shipping options and are informed that instead of needing to arrange two shipments we can collect both with the same truck and have everything to you by the start of business on Friday. Your production schedule is saved and you can go back to serving your customers while we manage your urgent freight shipment.
Keeping a power plant at full speed, UT to WA next day service
Freight: One 2,800 lb Pallet of Refractory Castable
Service: Box Truck, Dedicated Freight Service
Location: Utah
Distance: 935 miles
Transit Time: Door to Door in 20 hours
Late on a Tuesday evening you learn a power plant in the Pacific Northwest needs urgent material to remain at 100% levels within the next 24 hours. The problem is the 2,800 lb pallet is currently in Salt Lake City, nearly a thousand miles from where you need it and it’s too late in the day for heavy air freight options.
Finding TEC online, within minutes a suitable truck was reserved. The truck was loading at the facility in under an hour and heading out, real-time tracking updates provided peace of mind throughout, and even though a 24 hour commit was given for transit the freight unloaded in Washington in just over 20 hours.
Saving the day for your baked goods
Freight: One Pallet of Baking Essentials
Service: Sprinter Van, Dedicated Freight Service
Location: Nevada
Distance: 450 miles
Transit Time: Door to Door in under 8 hours
It’s Sunday morning and tonight’s baking schedule at your Las Vegas plant can’t proceed as planned unless a critical pallet of shortening is delivered across the desert as quickly as possible.
Within 60 minutes of calling TEC a dedicated sprinter van has arrived to collect your shipment and head south through the vast expanses of Nevada, tracked throughout and reaching destination exactly on time to meet the waiting party as planned.
Straight truck of automotive parts CA to TN in under 32 hours
Freight: One Pallet of Baking Essentials
Service: Dedicated Straight Truck with Team Drivers
Location: Southern California to Tennessee
Distance: 1,800 miles
Transit Time: Door to Door in under 32 hours
At short notice you’ve learned that late on a Monday evening you need a dozen pallets of automotive parts picked up in California the next morning at 10:00 am but they need to be in Memphis TN no later than the following evening. Only a truck with team drivers can make this work, and you found TEC online.
Within 30 minutes of calling TEC a dedicated straight truck with team drivers has been assigned and you’re even able to add additional freight up to the capacity of the truck. We load the next morning and our carrier delivers exactly on time.
Critical equipment for a movie shoot IL to KY in under 7 hours
Freight: 150 lbs of equipment for a film shoot
Service: Dedicated Sprinter Van
Location: NE Illinois to Central Kentucky
Distance: 380 miles
Transit Time: Door to Door in 7 hours
You just found out that your scheduled movie shoot in rural Kentucky tomorrow can’t go ahead without some important equipment being on location on time. Problem is the freight is in suburban Chicago and won’t be ready until early the next morning.
TEC are able to book a dedicated sprinter van for rapid service and collect exactly on time getting the freight from the city to the woods nearly 400 miles away in 7 hours allowing everything to go as planned for the shoot.