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Jacquette Lowery, owner, Secure Logistics Solutions, LLC.
This transcript is machine transcribed by Sonix.
TRANSCRIPT
Intro: Broadcasting live from the Business RadioX Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, it’s time for GWBC Radio’s Open For Business. Now, here’s your host.
Lee Kantor: Lee Kantor here, broadcasting live from GWBC Power of Partnering event at Georgia Power Headquarters. I’m so excited to be talking to my guest, Jacquette Lowery with Secured Logistics Solutions. Welcome.
Jacquette Lowery: Hi. How are you?
Lee Kantor: I am doing well. I’m so excited to learn what you’re up to. Tell us about your firm. How are you serving folks?
Jacquette Lowery: Yes, we are Secured Logistics Solutions, we are a freight brokerage where we cover the southeast region. What we do is we communicate with shippers, large shippers and customers, and we give their work to guys that either have small trucking companies or either guys that are owner/operators that operate their own trucks. So, basically, Secured Logistics, we are the middleman with the big companies and the big shippers and the guys that have their own operating trucks.
Lee Kantor: So, is this an issue that some people, they have something that needs to be moved and they don’t have the right ability to do it so they would partner with a firm like yours to help them get the stuff they need to the place they need it to be?
Jacquette Lowery: Yes, that is correct. So, most of the time big companies, like let’s say Coca-Cola or let’s say Georgia Power, so they focus on, you know, the products and the services. That’s why they use us to see how are they going to get their products moved, and that’s when we come into play to make sure that we have the resources and we have enough of what they need to get the job done.
Lee Kantor: And then, a lot of times, you’re kind of cobbling together different resources to help them move the stuff? And that’s where it gets tricky, right? You can’t just go on the internet and go, “Hey, make this go.” It takes a lot of coordination.
Jacquette Lowery: Yes. Yes, it does. It takes a lot of coordination. So, what we do is, let’s say for an example, a trucking company, we make sure that they have enough trucks or enough equipment to move whatever it is that that big shipper, that big customer needs to be moved in adequate amount of time.
Lee Kantor: Right. And I’m sure that’s a key part of your business, is keeping those lines of communication so that everybody’s on the same page of, okay, if you think this is going to be there by Tuesday, it’s got to be there by Tuesday, and you got to get the right resources in place to make that happen.
Jacquette Lowery: Yes, that’s correct. If you tell me that you want your products there by Tuesday, it’s going to be there by Tuesday. If you tell me you want it there by 5:00, 4:00, I will make sure that it’s there by 4:30 or by 3:30.
Lee Kantor: Right. And that’s the hard part, right?
Jacquette Lowery: That is the hard part. Especially so right now, we have a big hurricane coming in, so we have to make sure the loads that we’re supposed to get there by tomorrow, they needed to get there by today because the weather —
Lee Kantor: These things change, right?
Jacquette Lowery: That’s right. That’s right.
Lee Kantor: And that’s why they need a partner like you to help them make sure that nothing kind of slows down.
Jacquette Lowery: That is correct. You can never go wrong with Secured Logistics Solutions. We’re very dependable.
Lee Kantor: Now, why was it important for you to get involved with GWBC?
Jacquette Lowery: It’s very important, because GWBC, they do businesses with the people that I would like to do businesses with. They open up that point of contact for me and those big shippers and those big customers. They make it easy for me.
Lee Kantor: Because they become like kind of the matchmaker and help you get in front of the right people.
Jacquette Lowery: That is correct.
Lee Kantor: So, now, who is your ideal customer? Do you have an ideal customer?
Jacquette Lowery: My ideal customer —
Lee Kantor: Is it the kind of Coca-Colas of the world, these huge people who ship huge amounts of product or is it smaller businesses or a combination?
Jacquette Lowery: A combination. Sometimes it will be big customers. Like you said, Coca-Cola would be a really, really big customer. You can never have enough Coke, right?
Lee Kantor: That’s right.
Jacquette Lowery: Yes, sir.
Lee Kantor: So, now, if somebody wants to learn more about your firm, have more substantive conversation, is there a website? Is there a way to connect with you?
Jacquette Lowery: Yes. They can go to the website at securedlogistics.com, and we also have our contact link and our email as well.
Lee Kantor: Good stuff. Well, congratulations on all the success. And you’re doing important work and we appreciate you.
Jacquette Lowery: Yes. Thank you so much. Pleasure to be here.
Lee Kantor: All right. This is Lee Kantor, back in a few with GWBC Power of Partnering.
