State of Freight Update: Array of Accessorials

I continue to hear rumblings from shippers (users of freight shipments) about these things called accessorials, or surcharges. Let me try to give my view on this ever-increasing percentage of total freight costs. First of all, as a historian of the freight industry...

Has it been this long?

Corporate Management Group is celebrating 36 years in existence. Here’s the story… A Garage-Sale Computer in a Basement Office CMG was born in 1987, in a basement-closet-turned-office in Valley Center, Kansas.  I had just stepped out of corporate America to begin a...

Do You Do Windows?

Anyone in business understands how important customer service is to the bottom line. Quality service goes a long way in both getting and keeping customers.  Profit motive alone is sufficient reason to provide good service.Problems arise, however, when we...

OTC or OTE?

If I ever qualified as a golfer, then what I am now is a former golfer.  When people ask me why I quit, I tell them that golf costs too much money and takes too much time to feel that bad when I finish.  Nevertheless, there is a great gift that being a...

Who Is My Neighbor?

It may just rank as the most unusual thing I have ever witnessed.  If not, it gives whatever ranks number one a serious run for its money.  I observed it Memorial Weekend Sunday as I drove to church.  Lynne was out of town for the holiday weekend, so I...

Everybody Has One

Everybody has one. For some, theirs is already developed to the point it’s etched in stone. For others, theirs is a work in progress – at worst, a loosely gathered group of thoughts, and at best just needing some refinement. Whether it is the result of...