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The Transportation Revolution: Takeaways from CLX Logistics’ 6th Annual Customer Conference

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Last month, I had the opportunity to speak at CLX Logistics’ 6th Annual Customer Conference in Philadelphia. Mark Chrencik, Director of Operations at CLX Logistics (a Talking Logistics sponsor), kicked off the conference with a market update where he covered various trends in the industry, including fuel prices and linehaul rates.

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Is the Transportation Market Heading into Unprecedented Territory?

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If you’ve attended any logistics conferences lately, or just tried covering a load in recent weeks, you know that the tide is turning in the transportation market. At the CSCMP conference in late September, I heard a lot of speakers talking about the aggregate equipment loss — 50,000 to 70,000 units were taken out of service.

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Penske Logistics Receives U.S. EPA SmartWay Excellence Award

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The awards were handed out at the 2019 American Trucking Association’s Management Conference and Exhibition in San Diego. Drew Cullen, Penske senior vice president of fuels and facility services: “On a daily basis, we continue to optimize customer shipments in a variety of manners, and operate and maintain cutting-edge trucks.

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Penske Logistics Receives U.S. EPA SmartWay Excellence Award

Penske Move Ahead

The awards were handed out at the 2019 American Trucking Association’s Management Conference and Exhibition in San Diego. Drew Cullen, Penske senior vice president of fuels and facility services: “On a daily basis, we continue to optimize customer shipments in a variety of manners, and operate and maintain cutting-edge trucks.

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Penske Logistics Receives Freight Carrier Excellence Award from U.S. EPA SmartWay

Penske Move Ahead

We take pride in operating a highly modern and highly efficient truck fleet that reduces the carbon footprint of our customers each and every day.”. Penske received the accolade at the 2018 American Trucking Associations (ATA) Annual Management Conference & Exhibition in Austin, Texas. Over the past 14 years, the U.S.

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Keynote: McAfee stresses power of platforms and the crowd

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The business rules and thinking of the industrial age won’t serve us well in the digital age, Andrew McAfee, co-founder and co-director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy, said at Tuesday’s keynote at the MODEX conference in Atlanta. He has been a contributor to MMH since 2004. He can be reached at [email protected].

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U.N. agency sees 4 percent growth in maritime trade

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But it noted the individual carriers that belong to the alliances “continue to compete on price while operational efficiency and capacity utilization gains are helping to maintain low freight rate levels. “In an oversupplied market, consolidation is expected to continue,” the report said. However, this was not a broad-based trend.