Every year at the annual conference for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), three to five sessions are offered that focus on modeling or optimizing logistics, transportation and/or supply chain networks. Quite often these conference sessions expressly, or in passing, address the issue of vehicle routing. Against this backdrop a new class of metaheuristics quantitative tools has emerged that is capable of providing solutions closer to optimality, and often in less time. This article focuses on one of these emergent metaheuristics, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), that models the seemingly intelligent behavior of swarming insects, and compares it against one of the classic workhorse vehicle routing algorithms, the Clark-Wright Savings model, in a logistics focused environment. Overall, the results of this research indicate that the performance of ACO is superior for generating solutions to logistics-oriented VRP's, and should cause practitioners and academicians to reevaluate the techniques being used to generate vehicle routing solutions.