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Trucking Rates Looking to Increase: The Driving Factors & What You Can Do About It

GlobalTranz

Since the collapse of the housing market and the economy in 2008, the freight transportation industry has managed to claw its way out of a damaging situation and maintain historically low trucking rates. The Bureau of Labor Statistics asserts courses to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) last anywhere from three to six months.

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The Path to Cost Reduction: The company undertook a supply chain network-redesign program, resulting in the commissioning of intermediate “merge centers” and optimization of cross-dock terminal locations. Deere & Company also began consolidating shipments and using break-bulk terminals during the seasonal peak.

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CBRE research points to expected gains in cold-storage warehouse space

247 Customs Broker

As more consumers continue to buy groceries online, it has the potential to drive up the demand for roughly 35 million square-feet of United States-based cold storage space moving from retail stores to warehouses and distribution centers over the course of the next seven years.

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Trinity Logistics Partners with Truckers Against Trafficking

Trinity Logistics

The truth is, it’s a real, modern-day version of slavery, exploiting an estimated 40 million victims worldwide, and occurring in all 50 states across America, according to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center. In 2008, there were only three truckers who called in to report a potential situation.

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Supply Chain Management:Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Publishing Resources Industries. Human Resources. The implication however is that the physical store becomes a de-facto pick and pack fulfillment center subject to accurate inventory visibility. Of course, my understanding of how this shopping process goes down is very shallow; I am just a student. December 2008.

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

247 Customs Broker

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. Given that Chinese imports account for nearly half of all container imports moving over U.S. But let’s not hit the panic button just yet. In 2017 U.S.