[Discussion] lane is doing more work than we give it credit for
lane is doing more work than we give it credit for, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. Four observations is not a distribution. The lane tables here only became predictive once individual routes had a dozen or more reports behind them. Kept a spreadsheet of quoted versus actual across a…
Agreed on rigid packaging. It costs the shipper almost nothing and it predicts a lot about the rest of the operation.
Median transit is the useful statistic. The minimum is a story about one shipment and the mean is dragged around by a single hold.
[deleted]
no tracking numbers, ever
Split one order across two months on purpose to compare summer and winter. Four days apart, same carrier, same route.
Packaging is assessable on arrival with no equipment: rigid outer, no movement inside, the cold element sized to the transit rather than to the box.