corporate sponsor feature: burns logistic solutions, inc. in shoemakersville.

in 2016, this poetry project had its first two corporate sponsors to help support this community effort working with seniors, poetry, and local manufacturing history. one of these sponsors is burns logistic solutions, inc., which is based in shoemakersville. 

this business recently relocated into the historic train station building on the main street of its borough. renovations, plus brightly new yellow paint on its exterior, keep sunshine in the picture even on cloudy days. and this will be a nice perk by the time winter rolls around with more white-sky kinds of mornings and afternoons. the building's eye-savvy interior spaces are being used for meetings with clients and other business connections as well as office areas for staff.

ed burns is the founder and president of burns logistic solutions, inc., alongside his wife marianna burns who serves as vice president. they often describe their operation as the e-harmony of the freight business. they facilitate long-term business relationships between shippers, carriers, and warehouses within the freight transportation industry. this sector of society is often easily taken for granted by the general public because the people doing the hard work to keep our consumer goods moving are a bit like the wizard of oz in that they're behind the scenes managing a lot for us as we are out living and handling our own daily responsibilities.

while people sometimes become quickly frustrated in sharing road space with tractor trailers, they often forget that these drivers are the ones making sure food and whatever else we need gets to the stores where we shop. and even as online arenas like amazon.com continue to take more of a hold in our modern world of internet-everything, it still takes commercial trucks on the road to ensure that we get or have access to what we order online or purchase in local stores. these truck drivers keep our lives filled with what we want and expect to always have in terms of the most basic resources like milk, meat, waffles, mangos, bottled water, jeans, sneakers, cans of paint, oil filters for cars, and plenty more.