Mariner Logistics taps Flock Freight veteran as CEO

Mariner Logistics precocious named Justin Turner main enforcement officer, handing the integrated, asset-backed 4PL to an enforcement who spent the past decennary scaling brokerages and freight exertion companies.

The caller Mariner Logistics CEO takes implicit a Coppell, Texas, cognition that runs trucks, warehouses, managed proscription and its ain exertion stack nether 1 roof, serving manufacturing, aerospace and defence customers on with a increasing publication of information halfway freight.

"Mariner has built thing uncommon successful this industry: an asset-backed 4PL with a existent infrastructure, existent warehouses, and the verification and visibility exertion shippers present demand," Turner said.

From Coyote Dispatcher to Mariner Logistics CEO

Turner's aboriginal days started successful the trenches of a freight brokerage floor. "I was an aboriginal worker astatine Coyote and started arsenic a dispatcher, tracking and tracing shipments each day," helium said successful an interrogation with FreightWaves.

Seven years astatine Coyote Logistics included a cardinal enactment relation done the company's $1.8 cardinal acquisition by UPS. He moved to GlobalTranz arsenic vice president of sales, past led income and lawsuit occurrence astatine Atlanta-based STORD. As main gross serviceman astatine Flock Freight, helium helped standard gross from astir $10 cardinal to much than $500 cardinal portion the institution raised much than $400 cardinal successful task capital. He astir precocious was main commercialized serviceman astatine Terawatt, an EV charging developer for Class 8 trucks. He began his vocation successful logistics absorption with the U.S. Army.

Why Mariner Built the Sentinel Protocol

Sentinel Protocol, Mariner's multi-source bearer and operator verification standard, started arsenic a cargo information request alternatively than a ineligible one.

"We person immoderate enactment contiguous that we absorption connected successful high-value, high-security freight. And due to the fact that of that, we built Sentinel due to the fact that it's conscionable a requirement," Turner said. "When you're dealing with cargo values successful the millions, you request to person a existent protocol for however you grip concatenation of command."

The modular applies to each shipment Mariner coordinates, and it asks for much than a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration standing pulled astatine booking. "It's not conscionable a check-in and FMCSA information rating," helium said. Sentinel timestamps owed diligence crossed the beingness of the load alternatively than astatine the constituent of sale.

Where Automation Ends and Human Judgment Begins

Mariner scores carriers and lanes continuously alternatively than erstwhile astatine signup. "We're pulling unrecorded information from aggregate quality sources. So a bearer oregon a lane isn't scored erstwhile and forgotten. It's a changeless update," Turner said.