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This Week in Logistics News (August 26 – September 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

And when Mark Goodson and Bill Todman began shopping a modernized revival of The Price Is Right, Bob Barker joined on as the host, a role he would hold until his retirement in 2007. in unincorporated Adams County in a former distribution center. The Last Mile Delivery Academy is at 6150 N. Downing St.

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Capacity Issues? Collaborate! Aggregate! Don't Stagnate!

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I am up in Toronto today and tomorrow participating in a course for Transportation and Logistics' professionals. In the rail sector, the labor fallout from early retirements has restricted train crews, while track and speed constraints limit the ability to run additional capacity across existing rail networks.

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Trinity Logistics Partners with Truckers Against Trafficking

Trinity Logistics

We’re proud to have partnered with the efforts of Truckers Against Trafficking, to ensure that the more than 70,000 carriers Trinity Logistics works with are trained on how to spot trafficking and how to report it. What are TAT’s training initiatives? TAT has made its training easily accessible.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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• The growing army of robots used in distribution. It’s not even really that clean just in robots for manufacturing and distribution. Distribution is a different matter. We are approaching, I believe, an inflection point in distribution robotics. In comparison, in 2000-2007 the U.S.

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How will the tariff war with China affect U.S. container ports?

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port volumes are at great risk—as are the logistics and transportation jobs associated with moving Chinese imports from the port of entry to distribution centers and on to final demand markets. That said, there is an outside possibility that a full-blown trade war could unleash the “animal spirits” that last spooked markets in late 2007.

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Battling a perfect storm

Automotive Logistics

The purpose of a port is for the direct intermodal exchange of people or freight,” he said, adding that ports should have the infrastructure to allow vehicles and trains to come alongside ships. Duncan said GM had also invested in providing options to the customer when it came to dealer pickups from its distribution centres and the ports.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

Jim Shephard, president, Shephard’s Industrial Training Systems. ? Al Will, president of PWG Distribution Solutions. As the phenomenon of Big Data has taken hold in the private sector, many firms which as recently as 10 years ago devoted minimal resources to large scale database mining and analytics have reversed course.