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The Truth About Retreads: Debunking Common Retread Tire Myths

Women in Trucking

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As virus wanes, consumer spending shift could pop freight-heavy spending — and rates

Overdrive Online

We asked forecasters at DAT Solutions to peer through the fog and try to make sense of what lies ahead for freight demand and rates in 2021. The underlying forces in the spot market appear to point to a coming slowdown, though wildcards remain.

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Watch: How One Fast-Food Chain Is Surviving the Pandemic

Supply Chain Brain

Andrea Sordi, clinical assistant professor at the University of Tennessee’s Global Supply Chain Institute, weighs the risk and rewards involved in Taco Bell’s decision to introduce a major new product to its menu during the pandemic.

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Leveraging Data to Drive Operational & Procurement Decisions in Transportation

Talking Logistics

Thanks to ongoing innovation in technology, systems integration, and cloud networks, we have more data available today than ever before. This is particularly true in our transportation networks. But how can companies turn this abundance of data into actionable insights to make smarter and more effective operational and procurement decisions? That is the key question.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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A One-Two Punch: The U.K. Grapples With the Pandemic and Brexit

Supply Chain Brain

The conclusion of an agreement for Great Britain’s exit from the European Union probably couldn’t have happened at a worse time, coming as it did on the heels of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Clean Energy, bp Joint Venture Looks to Develop RNG Projects

NGT News

Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a provider of clean transportation fuel, has finalized a joint venture (JV) with bp Products North America Inc. to develop, own and operate new renewable natural gas (RNG) projects at dairies and other agriculture facilities. Each company will retain 50% voting control in the JV, which will be initially funded with […].

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[WHITE PAPER] How to measure freight data analytics value and why backtesting proves it

FreightWaves SONAR

Volatility has become commonplace in transportation management. According to Dan Weinberger of Supply Chain Brain , “In a time of increasingly unpredictable consumer demand, traditional supply chains are struggling to keep up. In response, businesses need to weed out outdated components and obsolete practices, while moving toward a more agile system.

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Amp Americas Brings Fourth RNG Production Facility Online

NGT News

Amp Americas, a company that specializes in renewable transportation fuel, says its fourth biogas facility producing renewable natural gas (RNG) from dairy waste is now operational and has begun delivering RNG into the Alliance natural gas pipeline to be used as transportation fuel. Located in Morris, Minn., near the state’s western border, the new plant […].

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FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index remains on solid footing to start 2021

Logistics Management

The January 2021 TCI, which is the most recent month for which data is available, came in at 10.37, topping December’s 8.51 reading, nearly matching November 2020’s 10.46 reading.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Transportation Industry

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a feature of everyday life: Using face ID to unlock a phone, communicating with online chatbots, and letting “smart” appliances help manage our homes are just a few of the ways that we interact with AI regularly. Forward-looking businesses are also using AI to transform their operations and gain a competitive edge.

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Bob Costello’s Economic Outlook (Food Shippers of America March 02, 2021 Webcast)

Carter Logistics

Written by Richard Kenney, Sales Manager, Midwest. I have been fortunate over the last several years to be an attendee of the Food Shippers of America Annual Conference, most recently held in Palm Desert, California, in 2019. Since the pandemic, the annual conferences have been on hold. In 2021, the Food Shippers of America did have a virtual webcast event that featured Mr.

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Supply Chain Management: The Key Factors Shaping it Today – Part 1

Morai Logistics

Just as the dimensions of supply chain have transformed, so has supply chain management in response to them—here are the biggest forces influencing it today. . The supply chain landscape has seemingly undergone a seismic shift over the past year. Yet, much of what the pandemic has spurred on isn’t a shift in supply chain trends but rather an acceleration of them.

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Complex Routing Needs Are Simple to Solve With Integrated Route Optimization

WorkWave

Time To Read: 3 minutes. When you think of routing, the tendency is to think of shipping packages from one location to another. This simplified view, however, is far from the only instance that can benefit from efficient routing. Now more than ever, businesses are coming to realize that they need to rethink how they are routing their people, packages, and services.

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Collins Delivers Connecticut’s First Type A All-Electric School Bus

NGT News

Collins Bus, a manufacturer of Type A school buses and a subsidiary of REV Group Inc., has delivered the first Type A all-electric school bus to Connecticut, the first-ever in the state. At the end of 2020, Collins also took orders for 11 Type A all-electric school buses from California, New York and Arizona – […]. The post Collins Delivers Connecticut’s First Type A All-Electric School Bus appeared first on NGT News.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Reuters Events Unveils Key Event for a Sector That Touches 96% of All Manufactured Goods

Supply Chain Brain

Reuters Events today announced details of an event that will be key for a sector that accounts for 25% of US gross domestic product.

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Ballard Provides Wrightbus with Fuel Cell Modules to Power U.K. Buses

NGT News

Ballard Power Systems has received follow-on purchase orders from Wrightbus, a bus OEM headquartered in Northern Ireland, for a total of 50 fuel cell modules to power fuel cell electric buses (FCEBs) planned for deployment in a number of U.K. cities. The buses will be partially funded under the Joint Initiative For Hydrogen Vehicles Across […].

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Ensuring Fleet Driver Protection in the Era of COVID-19

Supply Chain Brain

Major enterprises that employ hundreds of thousands of delivery drivers have a legal and ethical obligation to ensure the safety of these employees, contractors and the customers with which they may interact.

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Konecranes to Deliver 7 Tailored Forklifts

Logistics Business Magazine

La Cisa Trasporti Industriali S.r.l. ( La Cisa ) ordered a total of seven tailored forklift trucks from Konecrane for their operations in northern Italy, with four 25-ton trucks going to Padua and three 33-ton trucks destined for Dalmine, Bergamo. Customized for use in special industrial applications and steel handling, the tailored forklifts will be delivered in July 2021.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Who’s Right in the U.K. and EU’s Spat Over Vaccine Exports?

Supply Chain Brain

The U.K. and European Union are trading blows again — this time over coronavirus vaccines.

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SoCalGas Funding Clean Fleet Transition through Carl Moyer Program

NGT News

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas), the largest gas distribution utility in the U.S., has opened its annual initiative to assist fleet owners operating within the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) apply for incentive funding to replace diesel trucks with new near-zero emissions natural gas trucks through the Carl Moyer Program.

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Navigating Peak-Season Tailwinds: Four Trends to Watch

Supply Chain Brain

This year, the focus is on determining what broke down across supply chains during 2020, and figuring out what changes need to be made to drive success in 2021.

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Amazon 3rd party FBA sellers face new inventory limitations

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) is the sale of goods from Amazon warehouses. Amazon has introduced new restrictions on the supply of goods. Starting August 16 2020, sellers can send up to 200 units of a product with the new ASIN (An Amazon Standard Identification Number is a 10-character alphanumeric unique identifier assigned by Amazon.com and its partners for product identification within the Amazon organization) to Amazon.

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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Penske Truck Rental Implements Avaamo’s AI Virtual Assistant to Enhance Reservation Process

Penske Move Ahead

Penske Truck Rental has selected Avaamo 's voice-driven Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) for its phone-based truck rental central reservations call center. The goal is to further enhance Penske's truck rental reservation process by phone and drive efficiencies in its call center operations. The IVA relies on Avaamo's Conversational IVR technology to automate and streamline the truck rental reservation process, enabling Penske's customers to easily confirm, change, or inquire about existing re

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Airforwarders Association’s top exec calls on White House to consider various legislative priorities

Logistics Management

Late last month, Brandon Fried, Executive Director of the Washington, D.C.-based Airforwarders Association (AfA), a diverse coalition comprised of more than 275 companies with more than 500,000 employees focused on moving cargo efficiently and quickly throughout the supply chain, penned a letter to President Joe Biden. In the letter, Fried addressed, on behalf of AfA membership, that the White House consider various priorities, as agencies within the new administration set their legislative agen

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Residential vs. Commercial Freight Shipping

Freightera

Why do residential freight deliveries cost more? In the LTL shipping industry, business to business shipments are the norm. This means that carriers usually ship dock to dock or dock to tailgate and vice versa. . Carriers will consider shipments from or to locations that are not businesses in commercial areas an extra service, and these will require additional equipment or have certain restrictions.

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New Gateways for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Logistics Business Magazine

Two high-performance ports are scoring this year as new gateways for on the island of Rügen: The industrial port “Mukran Port” as well as the “City-Port Sassnitz” Mukran Port is virtually predestined as an industrial port with the fastest catamaran connection for travel between Sweden and Germany, especially for day trips to Ystad, southern Sweden.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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Why Trimac? Q&A

Women in Trucking

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Why omnichannel is Proving Key to Retailers’ Survival in the Digital First Era

Logistics Business Magazine

A series of challenges over the last year have brought with them a wealth of era-defining moments for retail. Within a brief and turbulent window of time, we have seen some of the biggest hallmarks of the changing retail landscape. Most notably, the already wavering high street was hit hard after accumulating lockdown measures, and Arcadia’s recent sell-offs to ASOS and Boohoo have proven major milestones in the ongoing shift towards a new breed of retail giant.

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The time has come for a more serious approach to infrastructure

Logistics Management

Now is the time for supply chain managers and related voices to make themselves heard. Both Democrats and Republicans seek to create jobs through construction programs and improve America's competitive advantage.