Flexibility

Need more trucks fast? Or a warehouse? How about last minute freight forwarding to anywhere in the world?

That’s the beauty of being part of the NFI network. We have the flexibility, capacity, speed and assets to adjust to your cyclical (or emergency) needs. All eight NFI Divisions are ready and willing to help out at a moment’s notice…you’ve got a real inside advantage! It’s that easy to get help when you are in a bind.

Just to give an example of how flexible we can be….

At 9am on a Friday morning, one of our customers found out they had to move forty truckloads of product out from one of their manufacturing plants in order to meet their fiscal year end. We received the call at 10am the same morning asking if we could help. The loads had to be out of the plant by 12 noon and most had to be distributed by 5pm. We mobilized drivers, tractors and trailers from all of our surrounding facilities. Some of the loads had to be transported via intermodal and we sent them through our NFI Intermodal Division. Our Transportation Division took other loads and started on their journey. Since some of the loads did not deliver for a few days, we found room at one of our distribution centers and off-loaded the trucks throughout the night. By 5pm, the entire forty truckloads were out of the customer’s plant. Twenty-four hours later, the product was either on its way to being distributed or was in a distribution center awaiting future distribution.

Our customer was very pleased.