Richard Highet Is An Anomaly...

In an age of information overload, with people jumping in and out of jobs claiming to be "experts" on everything under the sun, Richard has managed to stay focused on one thing; Transportation.

How does one go about becoming an expert in any field?

Expert status is achieved through years of hands-on hard work, and countless hours of observation and study. Years of facing the problems and difficulties that are unique to that field; years of getting knocked-down and beat-up a bit in the process of facing those challenges. And years of staying with it, taking the knocks and continuing to meet those challenges head-on, and little by little, year-by-year, learning what it takes to handle those challenges and learning to mitigate, avoid and prevent the problems.

That's the path to becoming a true expert at anything, and that's exactly how Richard Highet came to be an expert in his field, the shipping industry. For almost Thirty Years, Richard has made it his mission to discover everything there is to know about getting freight from point A to point B Quickly, Effectively, and Cheaply.

Richard learned the freight business literally from the ground up. He got his start in the shipping industry as a boy traveling with his dad making freight deliveries throughout Canada. After earning his Class 1 license when he turned 18, Richard went on to become an owner-operator serving the oil fields of western Canada, and by his early twenties, was the owner of a small fleet of trucks. Richard was already a well-seasoned veteran of the shipping industry by the time he hit his mid-twenties; from Oil Patch Driver...to Long-Haul Owner/Operator Trucker, then during a twelve-year stint with one of Canada's largest transportation companies (Canadian Freightways), Richard held a number of positions from Account Manager to Logistics Consultant to Assistant Terminal Manager and then finally Logistics Analyst. Along the way he learned every aspect of the transportation business and in 1994, Richard solidified his status as a Business Management Expert by earning his Business Management Certification from N.A.I.T.

Over time, Richard learned all the intricate details about the inner workings of freight companies and most importantly he learned what the customers of those freight companies need and want -- knowledge that has become an invaluable asset in helping his customers obtain the very best of rates and services from trucking companies and couriers today. His combination of practical, hands-on experience and academic achievement position him as a true expert in the shipping industry.

The Freightmeister has seen it all and done all there is to do in the transportation business... punched every ticket and unearthed every secret way to streamline and simplify the courier, LTL and Full Load Trucking process.

Now, as "The Freightmeister" at Econofast Shipping Systems and the visionary designer behind SMARTT Shipping Software, Richard uses his hard-earned expertise in helping his customers reduce the costs and increase the efficiency of their shipping operations.