Entourage

Since 2013

Entourage Freight Solutions

Entourage Freight Solutions has an extensive background and expertise in foodservice logistics, but our commitments extend further than that. We deliver unrivaled customer service every step of the way and guarantee personal attention to all details of our shippers’ needs.

By approaching every shipment, whether shelf-stable or not, with the same care and consideration as the regulation-laden industry of foodservice, we meet a higher service level on all movements.

The same excellence is seen through our investment in the latest cloud-based GPS-enabled technologies. Our platforms track drivers regardless of their location, continuously reroute shipments based on shifting dynamics such as weather or traffic and account for real-time changes in market rates.

Derive Even Bigger Savings

Cross Docking

Our cross-docking locations in Shelby, Ohio, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Romulus, Michigan, offer strategic consolidation, storage and end-to-end distribution programs to maximize efficiency and minimize handling times and potential product damage.

Speed Up Your Loading & Unloading

Drop Trailer

Our cross-docking locations in Shelby, Ohio, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Romulus, Michigan, offer strategic consolidation, storage and end-to-end distribution programs to maximize efficiency and minimize handling times and potential product damage.

Most In-Demand Form of Shipping

Full Truckload

Full truckload service forms a huge swath of the services and movements occurring through Entourage Freight Solutions. This includes transporting freight that fills the whole trailer and working with your team to minimize empty miles and partial shipments. Together, our team works to offer dedicated full truckload services regardless of the specific type of trailer and service level needed including dry van, drayage, flatbed, intermodal, multimodal and refrigerated.

In short, our expertise is your company’s gain. Entourage Freight Solutions evaluates the needs of each shipment and determines the best means of full truckload shipping, whether it includes packaging food in dry ice and shipping by dry van or going by reefer. It’s our ability to look at the full shipment life cycle, the distance and the possible risks that helps EFS determine what type of service level is appropriate, which carrier has the capacity to make the trip and what’s necessary to keep costs in check.

Stay Organized & Efficient

Freight Management

Entourage Freight Solutions offers a full suite of freight management services to help your team stay organized and efficient across both inbound and outbound processes. We can aid in coordinating deliveries and pickups, account for the variances of different types of shipping needs, whether reefer or bulk goods, and are able to continuously monitor for disruptions.

Freight management also includes a robust lineup of managed services for full truckload (FTL), less-than-truckload (LTL), oversize goods, intermodal, drop trailers, special projects, food manufacturing coordination, grower and shipper collaboration, retail, and DC-to-DC inventory transfers. We leave nothing to chance, relying on our expertise to ensure your team gets top-quality service at a fraction of the price of building in-house teams or logistics management programs from scratch. In addition, our advanced technology:

• Reduces confusion over which shipments are a top priority by leveraging cloud-based tendering and execution tools.
• Tracks market capacity and rate trends to keep total shipping costs in check.
• Leverages analytics to generate performance and cost analyses across different granularities.
• Streamlines communications with automated notifications that keep everyone informed.
• Prioritizes and tracks shipments from cradle-to-grave, assisting with recalls and much more.

Performance is Our Top Goal

Less-Than-Truckload

Our Less than Truckload (LTL) options for companies moving multiple LTL shipments to different locations or consolidating LTL goods from other companies are available to help get a lower all-in rate. Not only do we have years of experience in managing food service and related goods, but we also have world-class analytics capabilities to ensure competitive pricing and ready access to capacity. By tracking capacity across our dry van and refrigerated networks, we’re able to maximize profitability and enhance coordination of deliveries, pickups and more. Plus, our LTL services are easily scalable and accessible via our 24/7 support experts.

Identifying the Best Routes

Oversize & Overweight

Our Less than Truckload (LTL) options for companies moving multiple LTL shipments to different locations or consolidating LTL goods from other companies are available to help get a lower all-in rate. Not only do we have years of experience in managing food service and related goods, but we also have world-class analytics capabilities to ensure competitive pricing and ready access to capacity. By tracking capacity across our dry van and refrigerated networks, we’re able to maximize profitability and enhance coordination of deliveries, pickups and more. Plus, our LTL services are easily scalable and accessible via our 24/7 support experts.

One-Stop Solutions

Refrigerated Reefer

Temperature-sensitive goods need special attention and our refrigerated trucking or “reefer” transportation options deliver tried and true solutions for your chilled product needs big and small. We’re able to build food manufacturing transportation strategies from scratch to help even the most inexperienced shippers gain a strategic advantage. From guiding your team in selecting the best resources based on your location and delivery expectations to providing around-the-clock support to head off possible traffic or weather delays, we’re here to minimize downstream disruptions in your supply chain. Our expertise in refrigerated trucking also includes other perishable goods including pharmaceuticals.

Beyond the Capabilities of Most Carriers

Special Projects

Our team at Entourage Freight Solutions loves a challenge and that includes moving shipments that fall beyond the capabilities of most carriers. Shipments with unique handling, transport, weight, size or shape requirements or those requiring special equipment and expertise to move can all be accommodated by EFS from shipment planning through execution. Our experts are also able to help with obtaining permits for oversized goods and providing escort services if needed.