Bridging the Less-than-Truckload Expertise Gap with Online Education & Learning

Online Learning Evolves

Sometimes it takes a commercial business - with an up-close view of its industry in action - to step back and identify a need for educational resources.

That’s exactly what happened with data and solutions provider SMC³, which specializes in the less-than-truckload (LTL) freight market.

Its executives noticed that, for those beginning a career in freight management, there exist a dozen or more respected logistics or supply chain management educational courses in the US and beyond.

However, for the LTL side of the business, there has been a notable gap in educational resources to bring newcomers up to a competitive level of excellence or enable industry veterans to expand their knowledge base.

This is not a small concern. LTL represents a small part of overall for-hire trucking volume and revenue, but the sector is expanding as LTL carriers take on a bigger role in moving e-commerce freight.

The lack of educational resources in this significant segment of the industry called for a concerted response, said Karl Manrodt, professor of logistics in the department of management at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia.

Download this educational and informative white paper and learn:

1. The need for less-than-truckload expertise is growing as rapidly changing consumer habits have profound impacts on the overall supply chain. As the LTL industry becomes more innovative and flexible, its service providers also need to be more knowledgeable. A noticeable gap in less-than-truckload educational resources drove SMC³ and LogisticsTrainingCenter.com to create bLTL online courses and the industry’s only online certification program.
2. The on-demand learning platform enables students to focus on one or several areas of LTL, hear from industry experts ranging from logistics leaders to academic researchers, and learn at their own pace.
3. The online education program provides five online, self-paced, on-demand courses that deliver more than 40 hours of content. Courses offer professional certification (CLTL) as well as noncertification paths.