November 2012
| Business World Magazine | 133
Inspired by poetic license as opposed to professional licenses, Lord Lyttleton once penned
words towhichmany can relate, by bemoaning the “degree of woe” one endures before “bliss”
be gained. “The heart can never a transport know, that never feels a pain.” And yes, in busi-
ness, challenges associated with the transport of goods, and all the encompassing logistics,
is not something that typically inspires pretty poetry. Then again, that might just depend on
who you’re working with, for there’s a company who offers a certain conduit for bliss that has
effectively removed woe and pain from the transport process, while delivering considerable
cargoes of cost-savings.
there is a wizard. His name is Michael Jarrett.
Quite assuredly, Michael Jarrett, the Presi-
dent of JarrettLogistics Systems ( JLS),would
be first to insist there’s absolutely nothing il-
lusory, or wizardly, about his work. Still, it
is difficult to not conjure such a connection
when considering the sheer speed by which
he can deploy solutions that save money, or
provide uncanny ability to track a seeming
infinitude of tiny details, and impart answers
to questions at the snap of a finger (OK,
maybe the push of a few buttons, but you get
the point). What’s more, just consider some
of the places where he and the team at JLS
have worked their magic.
Before launching his own Ohio-based
enterprise in 1999, Jarrett devoted eight years
of service to a company called Caliber Logis-