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This episode continues our occasional series in which we visit a business to try to understand how it works. Today, our guide will be Mandy Barton who is President of Barton Logistics. Mandy shares an interesting story which serves as a window into the movement of freight by truck, rail, and air in the USA. Barton Logistics is a market maker in freight and sits at the intersection between its customers (and their supply chains), its carriers (who operate one or more large trucks, or other vehicles), and its trading partners. The business is physically located in central Texas, but it could have been located anywhere since it operates largely as a call center using the telephone, email and the Internet.

Mandy Barton has been involved in the trucking and third-party logistics (3PL) industry for 23 years.  She founded Barton Logistics in the dining room of her parent’s home in 1997 and currently serves as its President/CEO.  Her degree is in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin.  She is the author of the self-development book, Step One: Jump! published in 2016 and has an active coaching practice.

See below for a link to her book on Amazon: