Did You Know that TIA’s April Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) beings April 20 and features compensation expert and long-time TIA partner Beth Carroll of Prosperio Group? During this four-part series, Building the Best 3PL: Getting Your Org Structure & Compensation Plans Right is Critical, Beth will review common freight broker compensation structures to examine how they are affected by external market economics. She will also explore ways the current climate is opening opportunities to make changes to compensation plans that might previously have felt were impossible, which changes are worth considering (and which are not), and how to best communicate these changes to your staff. Register Now!

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Now is the perfect time to visit your TIA profile to ensure we have the right information about your company. Your member profile is connected to TIA's Membership Directory & Resource Guide and our Online Directory and Buyers' Guide. An up-to-date member profile helps others find your company more easily.

Less than 50 tickets remain for the TIAPAC 2021 Shotgun Raffle. Act now to get your ticket. Learn more about this incredible opportunity to support TIAPAC.

Join us on May 11 at 1:15 PM ET during the TIA 2021 Capital Ideas Conference for our newly announced session "Not Secure Enough: Managing Security Threats” featuring Ben Barnes of McLeod Software, Chuck Cook of RenovoData, and Glenn Patton of Roanoke Trade.

During this panel session, our industry experts will discuss causes of systems disruption, backup failure, system failure, how they educate employees on common types of cyber-attacks, their best practices for day-to-day systems administration, and how they developed Disaster Recovery Plans for the logistics vertical.

The TIA 2021 Capital Ideas Conference is the only event specifically designed for the brokerage-based 3PL industry. Registration is currently available for the event taking place May 11-13, 2021, exclusively online.

We have heard from many members about states assessing taxes on transactions within those states based on 1099s issued to carriers within those states. Upon review, our attorneys have reported the following:

The newest version of Marketing Transportation Brokerage Services (MTBS) is now available! Don’t miss out on the updated content, videos, and interactive segments in this revamped course. By investing a few hours of your time in this online self-study course, you can level up your marketing efforts with the help of industry expert Dr. John Drea. Create a deeper understanding of the strategic marketing approaches needed to promote your 3PL.

If you have any questions, please contact the TIA Education Team at education@tianet.org.

The Member Resource Library is a collection of guidelines and frameworks, contracts, legal cases, and other resources to provide TIA Members with a knowledge bank for 3PL success. Be sure to check out the latest additions to the library, including the recently updated Carrier Selection Framework and Framework to Combat Fraud.

You must be logged into the TIA website to access this library. Contact a member of TIA staff at
703.299.5700 if you need assistance.