Gazing into crystal ball with BlueGrace Logistics — Check Call

Senior director of commercial sales looks ahead to 3PLs in 2022

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Host Mary O’Connell and BlueGrace LogisticsBryce Williford sit down to talk about recruiting and retaining top talent, the best ways to grow and what 3PLs will look like in 2022 on this episode of Check Call. 

Williford is BlueGrace’s senior director of commercial sales. His career path includes 10 years at C.H. Robinson and founding The Hum Spirits Co.

Then there’s this news: A former driver for FedEx Ground dumped roughly 450 packages in and around Blount County, Alabama, on at least six occasions over an unspecified period. FedEx drivers from around the country descended on the area to retrieve the packages and attempt to deliver them to their destinations. 

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Former pricing analyst, supply chain planner, and broker/dispatcher turned creator of the newsletter and podcast Check Call. Which gives insights into the world around 3PLs and Freight brokers. She will talk your ear off about anything and everything if you let her. Expertise in operations, LTL pricing and procurement, flatbed operations, dry van, tracking and tracing, reality tv shows and how to turn a stranger into your new best friend.