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Guest blog: With the Truck Driver Shortage, How Many More Drivers will be Enough?

CH Robinson Logistics

My preferred measure of demand for truck transportation is an index I’ve developed with my colleague Yem Bolumole at the University of Tennessee that uses data from the Census Bureau’s and Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Commodity Flow Survey to calculate implied demand for truck transportation.

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Dissecting the Transformation: A Critical Examination of Logistics Education in Universities

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

In this blog, we critically examine the transformation of logistics education in higher institutions, comparing past, present, and future developments in this field. The present Presently, logistics education has shifted towards a more comprehensive and integrated approach. Future of supply chain survey.

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Lack of Safe Truck Parking Remains an Issue for 2021

Blue Grace Logistics

While keeping over-tired truck drivers off the road is certainly a worthwhile goal, providing an adequate amount of safe truck parking spaces still presents a problem. Jason’s Law Truck Parking Survey and Assessment was developed and implemented to identify driver safety problems and avoid further tragedy. During this briefing, U.S.

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Do Shopping Trends Drive Singles’ Day Sales?

Locus

Known to have first been celebrated in universities in the 1990s by single men, Singles’ Awareness Day has grown immensely popular with unmarried people all over China treating themselves to presents. A study by Harvard Business Review in 2019 found that products that were marketed as sustainable grew 5.6 Schedule a demo now !

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3 Supply Chain Trends to Keep on Your 2019 Radar

Logistics Bureau

3 Supply Chain Trends to Track in 2019. However, this year hasn’t quite closed out yet (at the time of writing), so in the true spirit of just-in-time delivery, here’s a quick appraisal of three current trends that I believe will come on stronger, and perhaps become some of the most important to supply chain operators in 2019.

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How Southeast Asian manufacturers can use ERP to realign the supply chain

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

In 2019, China accounted for 28.7 According to the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia’s (ACCCIM) business survey report conducted by PWC Malaysia, 48 percent of businesses said improving digital capabilities was a business priority over the next three years. Top leadership support for Industry 4.0.

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Docking defections

Automotive Logistics

Fakhrriyyah Hashim, a Lagos-based business development specialist, says in a blog post that used cars – known colloquially as Tokunbo cars – will continue to be brought in despite the restrictions. . At present around 150 ro-ro vessels visit the port each year, according to the Logistics Capacity Assessment of the World Food Program. .