pivot: is one of the most powerful words in business today
Businesses or decision makers:
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Connect.
We specialize in providing transportation industry experts to those that need them for decision making on current projects. These consultants will be prescreened with full bio and portfolio upon presenting to the stakeholders. This gives a company to inherit years of experience in minutes.
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How we do it.
We are an extensive ever-growing network of industry professionals that are offering their insight and experience for you to interview in one hour blocks with preset budgets. You determine the level of seniority of expert you need and we provide candidates for you to review. Upon making your decision, we schedule your call. We bill you for your call, and pay the expert their hourly rate.
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What if we dont have it.
If we don’t have the exact professional that you need to fill in the gaps of your current concern or project we will source you a professional. We will find someone with the experience and work history you are looking for to bring solutions to the table. In most cases we find them in 24 hours or less depending on the level of sophistication and expertise. So we Source-a-reSource for you!
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Survey or Market insight.
Sometimes all you need is someone in the same space you’re trying to correct with unique insight or benchmarking to lessen changes. We provide short-term consults so you can interview the person with direct experience with a similar operation or objective. We can assist your efforts in getting what works in front of you with one call or message. You have questions we have experts to help in real time.
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What you gain.
What you gain is access to transportation professionals all over the globe with the knowledge you need. If we don’t already have the one you need we will find it. If you need more than one opinion we can provide as many as you need. It’s like having your own strategy and discovery team in one simple step to gain you information on the companies and strategies you want to know. You gain confidence that a non-bias third party is giving historically backed guidance.
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is it really that simple.
Yes, we pride ourselves with the ability to provide the best professional to interview with less than 2 minutes of information about what kind of person you would like to interview in most cases. In some unique or extremely exploratory cases the set up could take several minutes longer. We then set up the meeting around both schedules, set reminders on both calendars and arrange your consult meeting links. We bill you for the call and pay the expert their hourly rate. Simple.
Contact us.
Our Services
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Frontline -
This division of gear shift focuses on the frontline workforce and the tools they need to work. We have experts that can provide insight into equipment sales and leasing, warehouse management, warranty insight, inventory tracking and anything that directly connects with the handling or movement of freight. These can range from assisting with retention methods, rewards programs, equipment specs, driver attraction, operating ration assessment, cdl training, equipment registration and IFTA training, payroll and anything that you can throw at us.
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Executive leadership -
Even our leaders have questions when their company enters into new opportunities or expands into new arenas. They have a lot of questions around what it will cost, will it work as intended, or will it work at all. We put you into a virtual interview with someone with the expertise and background to give insight into how it was done in the past or currently being done. When making huge financial or operational changes that could potentially effect your company, wouldn’t a one hour to review how others have handled a similar situation or crisis.
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Socrates all knowing -
Some companies see our resources as an extension of their current team for project management or extended projects that require large quantities of data filtering and computation. These are unique and can be provided for on a case by case basis to have semi-unlimited expert hourly blocks.
“if i can get an industry expert to weigh in on a multi-million dollar decision that could potentially save us hundreds of thousands, i would be crazy not too.”
— VP of Equipment
A quick note from the founder-
I grew up in this industry, I have succeeded a lot and I have failed on occasion in this industry. I’ve watched it change from chalkboards to AI in a relatively short few years. Most importantly I have learned a lot from this industry along the decades. One thing that I always thought would evolve into transportation was the collaborative collection of intelligence. Finding a better path to connect industry experts to companies that need it. Whether it’s a company trying to figure out process issues with operations or compliance to something more precise and specialized like acquisitions. Whether I was leading a team to hire triple digit hiring weekly or running a fleet of 2000 trucks there was always one universal truth; there are always concerns or hurdles that arise that would have been less cumbersome if new perspectives had been presented from an outside expert in the same arena.
After all of these years, miles, conferences, hotels and seminars anyone could survive, I realized that I wanted to go back to what made me fall in love with transportation to begin with. Helping a team solve complex problems using data driven decision making. The rush you get with every win you have is worth the hours put into the time building it. So in short, I think I am finally back where I belong helping companies become their best self through experience, knowledge and persistence to do more. When starting down the journey to start gear shift the same issue kept haunting me, how am I ever going to handle multiple companies in all aspects of transportation. I am well versed in most things, but not an expert in all. What I am extremely good at is developing teams and harnessing or attracting talent to be incredibly effective. Now using that skill my problem was solved by “recruiting” a team of professionals across all aspects of transportation and logistics to provide the best possible advice and guidance to our clients. Often the line between failure and success is simply the knowledge to do something right.
To all of my friends, peers, previous and future connections, thank you for being such an amazing industry. - David McBride