2024 Year End Review

We're proud of how Am-Tran grew stronger throughout 2024, even while navigating some tough challenges. One of our biggest achievements was expanding our presence across Sacramento and the Central California Valley, bringing our services to even more communities.

We made some exciting progress on the technology front too, rolling out new tools that help us better serve our customers and offer more competitive pricing. What really made a difference this year was the incredible input from our team members – they helped us spot ways to improve everything from our delivery routes to our training programs and how we communicate with each other.

Looking back, 2024 was a year where we really focused on what matters most: finding better, smarter ways to solve our customers' complex logistics challenges. We're excited to keep building on this momentum and creating even more value for the businesses that count on us.

Key Milestones

1. Growth in Central California

Am-Tran has been servicing Sacramento and the Central California Valley for several years, but in 2024 we significantly increased our presence. Everyday now, we have couriers covering the area from Yuba City through Sacramento all the way down to Bakersfield. Virtually all of these are medical deliveries, and we are actively working to build additional customer relationships in this area with the expectation that we can drive delivery costs lower.

2. Mapping our coverage area

In 2024, we began to use mapping software to better visualize our relative delivery density. This enabled us to identify opportunities to lower prices strategically, identify partnerships with more cost-effective third-party carriers like Fedex when necessary, and generally streamline customer operations. 

We also added mapping functionality to our notification systems such that shippers and delivery recipients have better visibility as to exactly where their packages are, when they will be delivered, and who is making that delivery.

3. Employee development

Bringing employees into the process of building solutions improved productivity in 2024 and set the stage for greater things in 2025. In addition it improved their understanding of how they fit into the Company’s mission and vision, as well as the Company’s desire to see them develop professionally. Customers benefited from this engagement. 

With every new day they are coming to see our employees as problem solvers in the field, capable of managing the custody of packages securely and reliably under a myriad of conditions. The employees are benefitting too. The skill sets that they are building in communication, time management and problem solving are directly transferable to the dream jobs that most aspire to.

4. Growing our management team

In 2024 we officially promoted Francisco Dominguez to lead our pharmacy distribution business. This is an exciting development that we believe will springboard this aspect of our business and lead to significant benefits for our customers, and provide Francisco with an incredible opportunity to build his skill set. He becomes the eighth member of our management team, which collectively, now has 100 years of experience working at Am-Tran; that’s an average of 12.5 years per manager!

Conclusion

We grew significantly in 2024. We established ourselves in new areas adjacent to our core business. We built technical skills that streamlined pricing and improved the customer experience. We invested in our people in ways that directly benefit our customers and the employees themselves. We are still a small, regional company, but that’s ok, because at the core, we believe the business we are in is best served by local people inspired to continually think about better serving the customers in our region. 

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