AFS Logistics names Kevin Day President of LTL enterprise
ATLANTA/DALLAS (Sept. 21, 2022) – AFS Logistics (afs.internet) pronounces Kevin Day as President of Much less-Than-Truckload (LTL). Day has over 25 years of logistics business expertise, together with greater than 11 years in govt management roles. As president of LTL for AFS, Day serves in each a client- and carrier-facing capability, main and managing the LTL enterprise unit, crew and income streams for LTL service choices.
“LTL has all the time been some extent of focus for AFS, and Kevin brings a wealth of expertise from a various set of LTL environments,” says Tom Nightingale, CEO, AFS. “His senior-level experience in each asset- and non-asset-based environments and his business acumen will convey an extra tailwind to our quickly rising LTL enterprise. His world-class expertise, along with our distinctive LTL crew, will speed up our speedy development and strengthen our market presence.”
Day will lead and help an analytics and pricing crew in Dallas that gives unmatched insights into the LTL market, and a Shreveport, Louisiana-based operations group that primarily serves the claims and help and business groups, serving to them discover options to numerous buyer wants. AFS is answerable for over $1.2 billion in annual LTL spend, via companies that apply best-in-class information science and negotiation to yield the optimum mixture of carriers and repair ranges on the lowest value.
“With such a deep bench of proficient, skilled teammates, a vital a part of my function is offering an atmosphere and alternatives for our crew to achieve success. Which means correctly equipping them to mitigate the challenges that stress our purchasers each day,” mentioned Day. “From rising transportation prices and capability constraints to visibility points, our confirmed processes and expertise assist shippers and carriers navigate a difficult panorama. All of that’s underpinned by our enterprise mannequin, which gives transparency to our purchasers, in order that they are often assured we are going to drive outcomes – we don’t produce income except we’re saving them cash.”
Day earned a bachelor’s diploma in accounting from Central Washington College and started his profession as a nationwide account govt at XPO Logistics, Inc. He ultimately moved into govt management, serving as director of pricing at Echo World Logistics, and previous to becoming a member of AFS, served as vp and common supervisor of LTL at Coyote Logistics.
About AFS Logistics
AFS Logistics helps greater than 1,800 firms throughout greater than 35 nations drive sustained financial savings and operational enhancements, whereas turning their logistics operations into aggressive, customer-centric differentiators. As a non-asset based mostly and non-asset biased 3PL, AFS gives a spread of logistics companies, that includes freight and parcel audit, parcel price administration, LTL price administration and transportation administration, which incorporates freight brokerage and freight forwarding. Based in 1982 and using a crew of greater than 380 logistics teammates in eight main places throughout the U.S. and Canada, AFS is commonly a part of the Inc. 5000 record of quickest rising firms. To be taught extra, go to www.afs.internet.
