Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

A few weeks ago, I revisited the age-old driver shortage question (see Truck Driver Shortage: Getting Better, Worse, or No Problem at All? ). Speaking of data, let’s start with a basic question: How many truck drivers are there in the United States? Number of Truck Drivers: The ATA vs. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 9, 2015

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. What’s Driving the Trucking Rates Increase? told the conference. Reshoring Initiative. Driver Expenses.

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10xLogistics

JANUARY 7, 2018

On July 18, 2015 I wrote a blog post entitled: DOJ Investigates Airlines - Are the Trucking Companies Next? For example, does the statement "disciplined capacity control" state a good business practice to the investors or does it state to the competition "If you don't add capacity I won't add capacity". Something is going on here.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Penske is included on the Women in Trucking (WIT) organization's 2019 list of "Top Companies for Women to Work for in Transportation." Conference & Expo during a special awards program and are featured in the upcoming cover story of Redefining the Road magazine. The winning companies were recognized at WIT's Accelerate!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

I asked Manhattan about recent examples of customers utilizing the company’s WES functionality. The system, expected to reach general availability within the next six months, utilizes Panasonic camera technology that can read markings on containers and the license plates on trucks.

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Women in Trucking

MAY 25, 2020

Conference & Expo. For example, about 14 percent of active Women In Trucking members are male, and five of the association’s board members are men. Championing Professional Development Jim Taber, National Account Manager at Arrow Truck Sales Inc., who addressed the topic in her presentation at the 2019 Accelerate!

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Now, That's Logistics

JUNE 29, 2022

At a recent supply chain-centric roundtable, for example, Jonathan Eisen of the Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference at American Trucking Associations, touted the bill’s long-term focus on freight connectivity.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

. “Not everything possible always makes sense,” states Frank Müller, Senior Vice President Brand Management, during this year’s STILL press conference, held this week at its manufacturing HQ in Hamburg. This may well be the truck without the full package of equipment variants.

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10xLogistics

JULY 18, 2015

A while back I wrote about how I thought executives in the trucking industry were getting dangerously close to collusion as they discussed capacity in the industry. So, for example, an executive says in an interview in a prominent industry magazine something like, "Until we see better ROI we cannot and will not add capacity to our system".

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 2, 2018

In April 2016, a fleet of trucks – some of which had driven almost 2,000km – arrived in the Dutch port of Maasvlakte and made modest headlines around the world. A few months later, a three-strong convoy of Volvo trucks hauled three containers on the interstate highway from the port of Los Angeles , again attracting extensive media coverage.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

David Priestman attended Dexory ’s Supply Chain Fast Track conference. For example, the Dexory View dashboard enables pick face analysis of volumes. His company are piloting self-driven HGV lorries, remote driving of warehouse reach trucks and remote monitoring of assets. Gaps can lead to out-of-stock or over-stocking issues.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

Visibility Enables Faster Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash processes : for example, you can leverage Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD) and geofencing to initiate invoicing and payment process. . The ability to answer “Where’s my truck or order and when will it arrive?” Understand the location the carrier wants a truck to go next.

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Trinity Logistics

MARCH 22, 2023

A few weeks ago, we held our first educational and virtual Agent Conference of 2023. This conference focused on winning sales and growing strong customer relationships as a Freight Broker Agent. I work with ABC Company in your area five days a week and have more trucks and equipment available that I think will help you.”

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2021

On Monday, nonprofit association Women in Trucking (WIT) announced its annual Top Companies for Women to Work For in Transportation. Transportation companies are judged and voted on by fellow Women in Trucking members in areas including corporate cultures, compensation, benefits, professional development and career advancements.

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Trimble

JANUARY 18, 2022

Back in October 2021, world leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, at the United Nations (UN) climate change conference (COP26) to make a pledge to further cut carbon dioxide emissions; the major contributor to climate change. What is being done?

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 8, 2024

There were some very standard questions directed to me, for example ‘what do you know about repairing forklift trucks?’ It wasn’t my job to know how to fix a forklift truck. This was my message at last year’s conference: everybody has an important role to play, some at the front and others at the back office.

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IoT World Today

MARCH 18, 2019

The Internet of Things World conference brings together stakeholders in the IoT space to help advance project implementation and reach ROI. And also this year we’re building out a developers conference at the show for the audience that is designing and delivering the future products in IoT. Welcome, Zach. Zach Butler: Hi Sue.

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10xLogistics

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Shippers Will Continue To Take More Control of The Assets: We all have seen the stories of big companies leasing ships but who would have thought a large furniture company would buy a large trucking company? It takes a while but supply chains will adjust.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

The most high-profile example of this is the growing adoption of autonomous mobile robotics (so-called AMRs) and modular micro-fulfillment systems. DCs can initially deploy a handful of robots as transporters, or add automated lift trucks for a proportion of inbound full pallet putaway without betting their business on end-to-end automation.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 3, 2018

A few weeks ago at the Descartes Evolution 2018 User Conference , I had the opportunity to interview William Wehrle, Director of Supply Chain at BASF, and David Bazzetta, Business Advisor – Process Optimization at BASF, about the importance and value of having real-time freight visibility.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

Sales of autonomous mobile robots and driverless lift trucks are taking off but the game-changing intralogistics technologies we will see at IMHX 2022 go much further than the simple replacement of man by machine, says event director, Rob Fisher. Across the intralogistics sector sales of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are booming.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 20, 2018

there is a better than good chance that the truck driver shortage would be at the top of the list. It is a topic of daily discussion at every industry trade show and conference, while also getting a ton of attention in the form of commentary or data being issued fairly frequently. Why wouldn’t it be either? It is our job after all.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

I learned that fact (and many more important things) at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference in New Orleans this week. Honeywell software helps trucking firms comply with new Federal Safety Mandates. truck firms accelerate into the merging lane (Reuters). Seeks Restrictions on Mexican Trucking Under Nafta (Bloomberg).

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 18, 2019

We just finished our conference, Descartes Evolution 2019, where the theme was Transforming the Customer Experience. Visibility is such a hot topic today and we clearly see the value in areas such as providing real-time truck tracking.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 20, 2018

OOIDA Leading Fight Against House Bills to Allow Younger Truck Drivers (HDT). A TMS user, for example, can say to the system, “Show me all uncovered loads,” or an inventory manager can ask, “Which stores have less than three days inventory of product X?” Fuel prices soar to three-year high (CCJ). No Clicks Better Than 1 Click.

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Carter Logistics

JULY 29, 2020

Since most individuals are working from home, or a mix of office and home, I let the customer set the preference for the meeting medium (video chats, conference calls, etc.). As an example, I reached out to a company on LinkedIn that made loading and unloading more efficient. Obviously, face-to-face meetings are out.

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Forto

MARCH 17, 2020

In China, trucks are at a standstill, goods are stranded in the country’s transhipment centers, and (refrigerated) containers are missing. The moment we passed on this option to the customer, we learned that almost all truck transports on this route had been discontinued. every morning, including for all our sites worldwide.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Brogan provided an update during the annual CSCMP EDGE conference on Oct. There have been a lot of investments in capacity on the trucking side, but it is easy to remove trucking capacity from the market, according to Brogan. "In The 34th Annual State of Logistics Report was first presented by Penske Logistics on June 20.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

At last week’s SMMT Connected conference hosted by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, speakers from some of the leading truckmakers and fleet management technology providers discussed the latest developments in connectivity and logistics. Use of the vehicle is important, if it is broken down it is not helping anyone,” he said.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 19, 2018

For example, in a poll conducted during an SAP webcast last year, 42 percent of the attendees responded that logistics is viewed as a cost center at their company and 31 percent said it’s viewed as “warehouses and trucks.”. Amazon is the best example today of a company that is leveraging logistics as a competitive weapon.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

The comment caught my attention because later that morning I was going to moderate a discussion with Dan Dershem , General Partner at Supply Chain Ventures, about emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous trucks, and digital freight. Blockchain. Digital Freight.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A 20 percent increase in freight snarled supply chains because of a lack of space on docks and in warehouses as well as a shortage of truckers and trucking equipment. Shipping volumes had surged as consumers spent more on goods during the Covid-19 pandemic. percent year-over-year drop in January container volume.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

Automated Truck Firm Raises $60 Million (WSJ – sub. Turnpike travelers will see semi-autonomous trucks on the road this year (Cleveland.com). Finally, more news this week related to self-driving trucks and vehicles. Omnitracs LLC, a provider of remote monitoring systems for truck fleets, led the new funding round.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Here are some examples from the past few months: P&G : P&G is undertaking “a multibillion-dollar effort to remake an antiquated and inefficient network of factories, warehouses and offices into a new model that gets goods to stores more quickly,” reported Sharon Terlep in the Wall Street Journal this past February. “P&G

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Freight trucking startup Shipwell gets a $10 million boost (TechCrunch). Trucking costs to halve by 2030, study predicts (LLoyd’s Loading List). A TMS user, for example, can say to the system, “Show me all uncovered loads,” or an inventory manager can ask, “Which stores have less than three days inventory of product X?”

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IoT World Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Since the ELD mandate went into effect, every truck now has this device in it with the ability to do compliance, but also can lead you into more safety monitoring, and can be used to help drive fleet efficiency,” said John Sears, senior data science manager at Keep Truckin. “Now, In the near future, cameras could record a range of incidents.

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

As attendees at this year’s SEMICON West conference saw this week, advanced technology is playing a major role in these new “connected” logistics, warehousing, and transportation networks. IoT and blockchain, for example, can facilitate the recording of every transaction across multiple copies of the distributed ledger.

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