The Sunset Difference
Our mission is to assist our customers with honesty and integrity by providing professional transportation services.
With over 20 years of experience, Sunset Transportation is a leader in third party logistics (3PL) and freight audit, payment and reporting services. We help companies save on transportation costs by enhancing efficiencies, leveraging our buying power, and maximizing technology. Headquartered in St. Louis, we have expertise in truckload, less than truckload (LTL), international shipping, inter-modal, warehousing, freight payment, and supply chain solutions. Our advanced technology systems, FreightLOGIK® and PayLOGIK®, offer our customers customized transportation management data and freight audit capabilities.
The Sunset Experience
Our approach ensures that your company has a single point of contact—your account manager—supported by a team with specialized skills. We customize a solution that best suits your company’s needs, with a service level that meets your expectations.
- Flexible Solutions—With Sunset, you won’t find your company shoved into a one-size fits all “canned package.” Instead, you’ll find our services and customer service tailored to your company’s needs. Whether you’re looking for help on a single shipment, freight audit & payment services, or complete supply chain management, we have a solution for you.
- Technology—In today’s world, technology is power. Sunset’s web-based FreightLOGIK® transportation management system (TMS) provides you with unlimited access to all your shipping information—including quotes, shipment and bill of lading creation, tracking, and reporting. Plus, our team can analyze this data to bring you savings. Likewise, our custom application, PayLOGIK®, provides you access to audit and payables controls, transportation and payables reporting, and options to control timing and amounts of carrier payments.
- Buying Power—With over 20 years of experience, Sunset’s buying power is fueled by our network of carriers, owner operators, advanced pricing tools, and experienced professionals who are experts in the market. We continuously negotiate contracts and collect information on pricing and industry trends, capacity, reliability, and service to bring savings to your bottom line.
A Message from Our Founder
Like many successful companies, Sunset started with an idea for greater efficiency.
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, my family owned and operated a small paper products company known as Williams Paper Company, which was started by my grandfather in 1861 and is considered one of the oldest businesses still operating in St. Louis today.
While working in the family business, I saw an opportunity to use the company trucks out bound from St. Louis and bring back paper goods for the company. Eventually, 80% of our company’s trucks were used as for hire instead of hauling our own products, and I had a full time career in the transportation industry.
In 1989, I began Sunset Transportation and recruited brokers that specialized in services such as LTL and diverse product hauling. As the business grew, we automated our freight audit and payment processes, enabling us to help customers improve their cost per transaction.
Today, we now have a freight audit and payment division that processes more than 100 million dollars in freight bills a year, as well as a client-friendly transportation management system that allows our customers the ability to see every transaction. We have also developed internal transaction software that ties into an online quoting and tracking system. As a result of our customers’ satisfaction, we’ve been able to grow revenues 90% in the past 5 years.
A lot has changed since the beginning of Sunset, and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. I am proud to share that we still do business with some of our first customers. This says a lot about Sunset and our relationship with our customers. We enjoy listening to our customers’ needs and helping them grow their business by providing transportation solutions.
I look forward to Sunset’s future and working together with our customers for continued success.
Sincerely,
Jim Williams, CEO
