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Dry Van Shipping
Your business is unique, your supply chain is complex. This makes it challenging to find a consistently compatible dry van provider. Until now. Here at MEI, our dry van network is strategically positioned to ensure synergy across your shipments. Whether it's across the country or down the street, utilizing a provider you're familiar with — that you've tested before — is a significant advantage.
MEI offers customized solutions throughout the U.S.
Heavy Haul Trucking
Large or heavy loads are subject to different rules and regulations. And those rules and regulations vary by each state and province your freight travels through. How are you supposed to keep track of everything?
Making one mistake could cost you time and money — putting your project at risk.
Find a partner with the experience you need in MEI.
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Put your freight in good hands with experienced heavy haul drivers who specialize in oversize and overweight shipping
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Protect your investment with drivers who go through ongoing safety and securement training
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Reduce the risk of damage by partnering with someone who won't take shortcuts
MEI Carriers/Drivers need to prove their skills before they take on your heavy haul transport needs. It’s not until they show they can pull standard 53-foot trailers and reach certain milestones that they move on to the next size and weight class.
A Heavy Haul Partner Where Commitment Means Everything
There's nothing more frustrating than putting in the work to find a heavy haul carrier to ship your over-dimensional freight, just to have them back out on you last minute.
It shouldn't be this hard to find a reliable heavy haul carrier...
When you partner with MEI, you’ll avoid dealing with heavy haul trucking companies that claim they’re ready to do the
job you asked for and, at the last minute, tell you they won’t be able to. When we say we’ll do something for you, we’ll do it the right way. That goes for pricing too. Get an accurate quote upfront that won't change.
Flat Bed Shipping
Production slowdowns — or even shutdowns — due to delays caused by your flatbed trucking companies are not only frustrating, but they can also hurt your bottom line.
Why is it so hard to find a reliable flatbed carrier?
Find a flatbed trucking company you can trust by asking the right questions. Ask about their driver hiring requirements. Are they hiring drivers new to the industry or do they require recent experience? One tenured, make sure those drivers go through ongoing safety and securement training.
Those questions can help you determine if they know the latest and best practices to safely transport your freight — and can be expected to reliably deliver your freight on time and claim-free.
That's what you can expect when you work with MEI. With experienced drivers hauling your flatbed freight, shipping with MEI will keep your production flowing.
Flatbed Shipping That Keeps You in Control
Waiting for available capacity to fit your unique freight needs shouldn’t be the norm. Gain control of your shipping schedule with a diverse open-deck trailer fleet that has the flexibility to quickly move capacity when and where you need it.
And stay in control of your freight by relying on:
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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) tracking that can integrate with your EDI systems
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Real-time tracking and visibility of your freight using Macro Point
Refrigerated Shipping
You've got deadlines and if your refrigerated shipping provider isn't reliably picking up and delivering on time, it can hurt your bottom line. Even worse, did they set the reefer trailer to the wrong temperature and now all of your food is spoiled?
Is it too much to ask to have a temperature-controlled shipping partner that can handle the basics?
Find a temperature-controlled shipping service that plans ahead as you do. MEI specializes and understands food and beverage transportation and the unique demands of shipping temperature-controlled freight — including the basics you'd expect from any reefer shipper. Consistently meet your deadlines — even during your peak seasons.
Flexible Reefer Solutions Customized For You
Just like the changing seasons, your shipping demands come and go. So you want a refrigerated shipping partner that can keep up when your demand heats up. At the same time, you don’t want a shipper breathing down your neck when you don’t need them to.
MEI has the size and scale to keep up with your seasonal demands, while still providing a customized experience every time. When you need one point of contact for a one-off shipment or a team to handle your large project needs, we’ll be there.
If your trucking logistics provider is unable to adapt to the always-changing market and your needs, look to MEI Logistics. Gain access to tens of thousands of trusted carriers across North America — and a team dedicated to meeting your demands, big or small — so you can become the supplier that always delivers.
We Turn Modern Supply Chain Headwinds into a Competitive Advantage
As a shipper, you face a new world of challenges that surround your brand and revenue streams. MEI Logistics knows how to mitigate those risks and protect your brand in a world of rapid-fire change.
We bring an adaptability to logistics that allows us to deliver in the face of any new challenge. But what truly sets our transportation services apart is how we do more than just play defense. We know how to turn new supply chain dynamics into competitive advantages for our customers. By leveraging a unique mix of technology, processes, and culture, we can help you expand loyalty with current customers—and win new customers—by delivering in ways that others simply can’t.
You can count on this level of service whether you choose our 3PL solutions, dedicated logistics. We’ve built our North American operations on best-in-class technology and an enterprise that spans more than 700 trucks, 1,000 professional drivers, and 16,000 preferred carriers.
MEI has relationships with over 10K+ hand-selected carriers who can move your product to and from anywhere in the country. You can be assured that loads tendered to us are never posted to a load board. Our carriers have been hand selected and thoroughly vetted to make sure they are safe and reliable.
MEI utilizes a Carrier Partners Scorecard program to constantly monitor each partner’s performance. When a load is tendered to MEI, we take all responsibility for that load from pickup to delivery. You will never have to chase a third party to get answers.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to provide consistent, value-driven, quality truckload service to our shippers from the moment an order is placed, to the time it ships, to the time it delivers and at every moment throughout the process. We will provide the best freight opportunities possible to our carriers, pay fair rates and treat them like they were our own. We will seek and retain the best transportation people in the business and provide an environment in which they can flourish.
OUR vision
Our founders each have decades of industry experience – over 40 years combined. From that experience we will strive every single day to be the very best transportation brokerage. Like nearly every industry in the world, transportation changes daily. We resolve to change with it adopting and embracing each technical advancement that makes sense for us and brings value to our customers.
honesty - loyalty - persistence - fairness
MEI is built on Honesty, Loyalty, Persistence and Fairness and will always stand by these core values.
HONESTY. The firm belief that your word is all that you have to offer. Trust is hard to gain and easily lost. There is no problem that cannot be solved with timely, honest communication.
LOYALTY. We will never get where we are going without lasting partnerships and friendships. We recognize that commitment and faithfulness are essential to our success.
PERSISTENCE. The relentless focus on the end goal. Getting the job done every time without sacrificing quality or expectations.
FAIRNESS. Always treat people right. Sustainability can only result when all parties are allowed to gain in some form from each transaction.
What is a 3PL broker?
A 3PL broker is a third-party logistics provider that provides not only freight brokerage service but also a wide range of other services for shippers. Think of the entire logistics chain from when a customer places an order until that customer receives the requested goods. The order has to be logged. The items must be pulled from the warehouse shelves and packed into a box. Connecting with a carrier to transport the goods — which is what a freight broker does — is just one small part of the equation.
So, what is a 3PL brokerage? It is a third-party logistics brokerage that handles all parts of the process of fulfilling an order from the time it comes in until the items are delivered.