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Lamprey Systems – St. Luke’s Cycling Team finished its 8th season last week by sending 7 riders to Cyclocross National Championships in Asheville, NC. The longstanding sponsorship of Lamprey Systems – St Luke’s Cycling Team is one of many ways which Lamprey Systems gives back to the community and an exciting part of Lamprey Systems’ culture. […]
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Dimensional weight, also known as volumetric weight, is a weight assigned to a package which takes into account the size of the package. Dimensional weight is used in calculating the cost of shipping with both FedEx and UPS and has caused companies shipping large, light weight, boxes to see considerable increases in their shipping cost since 2014. In
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Competing in one of his largest events of the year, Chris Garges won his age group in the 5k, 10k and Half Marathon over the weekend at the Runners World Half & Festival. Finishing with a total time of 2:14:19 for all three events, not only was Chris recognized as the top Masters finisher in the “Hat Trick”
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Last weekend marked the return of Lamprey Systems’ yearly cyclcoross event. 377 entrants across 15 categories raced with many of their families spectating and taking part in the festivities which including live music, food and beer. The yearly event has always been a great way for Lamprey to connect with the local Lehigh Valley community and
This is our first installment of our multi-part series on Freight Metrics. Many of these metrics are available in reports generated by LampreyTMS but regardless of your Transportation Management System, these are metrics which your business should track and understand. For this first week we focus on Financial Metrics. Freight Costs as a Percent of
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Team Lamprey Systems starts the season strong at Nittany Lion Cross. It was a muddy season opener in Trexlertown, PA which saw 11 Lamprey Systems riders take to the start line over two days. The best result for the team came on day 2 from Jennifer Hetrick who crossed the line 2nd in the Women’s 3/4 race, a
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At Lamprey Systems we audit 1000s of our client’s FedEx and UPS invoices each week evaluating the performance of every shipment on every invoice. We then use our longstanding relationships with FedEx and UPS to insure that every single dollar owed to our clients for avoidable FedEx and UPS service failures is sent to our clients. While often
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One of the most common, costly and often avoidable category of delays we see are custom delays. Custom delays are some of the longest delays and having one often makes the package ineligible for a guaranteed service refund. Below are five simple steps you can take to avoid many of these delays and insure your international shipments get
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Fall is fast approaching and with it comes the Holiday Season. While it may seem early, FedEx and UPS have already issued their Holiday Schedules. To help you out, we’ve taken the extra step of combining the most important details of each into a single easy to read, and printable, one pager so you don’t miss a
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A Transportation Management System is a vital tool for shipping professionals. It helps to coordinate all of the available data points in a transport network, including rates, route options, warehouse supply, and distribution. Transportation management systems present this information in a clean, easy to understand format that then allows the shipping manager to make the best and
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