November 2012
| Business World Magazine | 137
energy industry. He says turning over the
task of LTL freight to JLS has resulted in ap-
preciable “non-events”.
“
We now view reports... rather than
being tied down by those duties. There is
now more time in the day for the details of
our core business,” says Easterday.
DRIVEN TO DELIVER
JLS’ emergence as a major mover-and-shaker
in the market could never have happened if
it was only left to the fact that these are nice
guys doing a nice job, there’s a lot more to
it. A large proportion of their success can
be credited to their proprietary technol-
ogy platforms. From their “eSelect” and
“
eQuote” applications to software which
can be customized for any company to yield
efficiency and speed in terms of generating
tracking data, ad hoc transportation reports,
quote-to-ship information, and more.
Clients also benefit from a volume
of “value-added” services which includes: a
centralized routing-center for all customer