In the increasingly competitive logistics industry, for us third-party logistics enterprises, how to build a stable and efficient transportation system is the key to achieving sustainable development. Among them, whether to maintain one's own fleet or use platforms to find cars has always been a focus of discussion in the industry, and it is also an important issue that we repeatedly weigh in our operational decisions. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages.
 
1、 Own fleet
 
-Advantages: Unified management and scheduling of vehicles and drivers can better ensure service quality and transportation efficiency, enhancing the enterprise's control over the supply chain; In the long run, if the business is stable, the purchase and operation costs of vehicles and equipment can be shared, and the unit transportation cost may be reduced; Helps to build corporate brand image, enhance customer trust, and form differentiated competitive advantages.
-Disadvantage: Requires significant investment in capital costs, labor costs, and high financial pressure; When the business volume fluctuates, there may be situations where vehicles are idle or there is insufficient capacity, resulting in resource waste.
 
2、 Platform for finding cars
-Advantages: Enterprises can flexibly allocate transportation capacity as needed, without the need for a large amount of fixed asset investment, reducing financial risks; Can adjust the number of vehicles at any time according to business volume, avoid idle vehicles, and improve resource utilization efficiency; The platform integrates a large number of social vehicle resources, provides diversified vehicle models to meet different transportation needs, and introduces competition mechanisms to reduce transportation costs.
-Disadvantage: Relatively weak control over the transportation process, poor stability of vehicles and drivers, which may affect service quality; If the platform malfunctions, it will affect logistics operations; In long-term cooperation, platform fees may increase and there may be a lack of long-term transportation capacity guarantee, which may lead to tight transportation capacity and price increases during peak seasons and other periods.
 
3、 Dual pronged approach to achieve optimal allocation of resources
 
After long-term exploration and practice, we have found that the model of combining our own fleet with platform car search is the most suitable path for the development of our third-party logistics enterprise. Ensuring core business and basic transportation capacity with our own fleet, ensuring the stability and high quality of services; Utilize the platform to find vehicles to cope with temporary peak hours and special needs, achieving flexible allocation of resources and effective cost control.
 
In the future development, we will continue to optimize this dual track transportation mode, continuously improve our operational management level and service quality, provide customers with better, more efficient, and flexible supply chain solutions, and continue to move forward in fierce market competition to achieve sustainable development of the enterprise.