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LQ's Top 37 3PL's 2008
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Werner Enterprises Dedicated & Logistics
Omaha, NE
NASDAQ: WERN (Werner Enterprises Inc.)
Greg Werner, President & CEO
800-228-2240
www.werner.com |
3PL Turnover: |
$1b Parent: $2b |
Service Area: |
International |
3PL Assets: |
4,600 employees 12 terminals 8,040 trucks 24,140 trailers |
Information Systems: |
Excellent, TMS - Proprietary – SMART |
Services: |
Werner offers a diversified portfolio of transportation services that includes
dedicated, medium-to-long-haul, regional and local van capacity, expedited,
temperature-controlled and flatbed services. Werner's logistics portfolio
includes import/export freight management, truck brokerage, intermodal,
load/mode, network design and optimization, cross-border services within
North America and global freight forwarding. Werner Global Logistics is a
licensed U.S. NVOCC, U.S. Customs Broker, licensed Freight Forwarder in
China, licensed China NVOCC, TSA-approved Indirect Air Carrier, IATA
Accredited Cargo Agent and Overseas Consolidator. |
Industry Focus/Key Customers: |
AET, Anheuser-Busch, Chevron, Con-Agra Foods, Dollar General,
Family Dollar Stores, Funai, General Mills, Gordman’s, Home Depot,
Knauf, Kroy, Mervyns, PepsiCo, Perdue Farms, Proctor & Gamble |
Armstrong & Associates Evaluation: |
Werner is a major dedicated contract carrier and U.S. trucking company. Its financial results are among the best in the business year after year. It has 140 dedicated contract carriage accounts. Werner’s arrangements with these accounts include primarily exclusive use of equipment deals with backhauls generated from regular company loads. Among the 3,300 power units it has in dedicated service are 4,950 dry van, 1,150 reefer and 500 flatbed trailers. Werner is using electronic logging in all operations and is a step ahead of its competitors in this regard. Werner has extensive logistics service operations through its rapidly expanding value-added services division (VAS). VAS has over $200 million per year in revenue. VAS operations include cross-docks, intermodal and brokerage. Werner is expanding internationally and now offers ocean and air freight forwarding and customs brokerage services. Werner is also a NVOCC and a
C-TPAT/PIP/FAST participant. |
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