Mastery Logistic Systems looks to add ocean shipments through working with Trailer Bridge (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Business Journal) — A Jacksonville logistics company is working with a buzzy transportation technology company to help expand the technology firm’s product to include ocean shipments.
Trailer Bridge Inc. is working with Mastery Logistics Systems, the Chicago-based company whose cloud-based software-as-a-service transportation management system has been invested in by logistics heavyweights like Werner Enterprises (NASDAQ: WERN) and Schneider National (NYSE: SNDR). Trailer Bridge will pay Mastery for the use of the cloud-based technology across all its locations.
Jacksonville-based Trailer Bridge began rolling out the company’s Mastermind software in 2021, a move CEO Mitch Luciano said was “a big step forward for us at Trailer Bridge and our next phase of who we become.”
Mastery was launched in 2019 by Jeff Silver, the logistics expert behind Backhaulers and Coyote Logistics. The software was built in the cloud and was designed for large complex organizations, gaining it fans in the logistics sector.
Aimed at shippers, brokers and carriers, MasterMind has won over companies like Averitt Express and Covenant Logistics Group. Inc.
The software, though, has not handled ocean shipments — something that will change through Trailer Bridge’s adoption of the platform. The companies are targeting a late 2023 launch for that functionality.
“The cross-team collaboration with Trailer Bridge, their vendors, and the Mastery project team has been critical to the success of this launch,” Mastery VP of Sales Danielle Prigge said. “Seeing their brokerage users and accounting users leveraging the MasterMind platform is a major milestone in the overall program. We are looking forward to continued success as Trailer Bridge scales their Ocean division.”
Trailer Bridge began using the platform in June, primarily as a method of managing the truckload business, but will now be rolling the software out to other areas of the company throughout the next two years. It will add its intermodal and less-than-truckload operations at the end of the year, then plans to add truck operations and ocean business.
“If you want to be a full service provider in logistics where you’re providing ocean international trucking, rail warehousing, you know, container storage, all the different things that a true logistics company can do — if you’re not on one system, you will not be successful,” Luciano said. “You won’t grow to the level you want to grow.”
Trailer Bridge has recently expanded its reach to the western U.S. and added an International Division. Those moves and others put the business on track to be bringing in $1 billion in revenue within five years, Luciano said, compared to its current $300 million in revenue.