A Historical Perspective on Regional Parcel Carriers

Regional parcel carriers are a vast group and each has its own set of strengths that your organization can leverage to enhance your supply chain. They can provide better transit, white glove services, special handling, and in most cases, better prices.

In order to understand how regional parcel carriers can provide value for your organization, it is important to know the evolution the types of regional carriers and the niches each fills. Shippers are growing to understand that there are alternatives in the parcel delivery space.

Several highly successful regional parcel carriers started as priority next day delivery companies. They focused at the start to deliver early morning, mid-morning or by noon.

As the economy ebbed and waned, these carriers moved to general parcel ground freight that rides along the same network as their priority packages. There are two major types of regional carriers; carriers that can provide multi-state solutions and others that are “micro regionals” that cover smaller geographic regions such as cities or partial states.