Fri.Dec 23, 2022

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How Retailers in the US Can Step Up Their Delivery Game

Locus

Online shoppers are growing in number year after year, and so are their delivery expectations. According to a study, there were 268 million digital buyers in the United States in the year 2022 alone. This number is said to increase to almost 285 million in 2025. Not only this, 62% of online shoppers in the US say delivery speed is what makes for a good purchase experience.

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Women In Trucking calls for 2023 Driver of the Year nominations

Fleet Owner

Applications are open to any female driver who has safely driven at least one million consecutive accident-free miles. Nominations are due by Feb. 1.

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Lion Electric Produces First Lithium-Ion Battery Pack at New Manufacturing Facility

NGT News

The Lion Electric Co., a manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles, has completed production of its first lithium-ion battery pack at the company’s battery manufacturing facility located in Mirabel, Quebec. Final certification of the first battery pack is expected in the first quarter of 2023, followed by a gradual ramp up of production […].

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Cox Transportation Services acquires cross-border specialist Outwest Express

Fleet Owner

Specializing in Mexican cross-border logistics, Outwest Express brings a fleet of more than 400 tractors and 1,200 trailers that serve a diversified group of customers to Cox Transportation’s time-sensitive truckload freight operations.

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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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Pittsburgh Regional Transit Places Order for Up to 157 NFI Buses

NGT News

New Flyer of America Inc., a subsidiary of NFI Group Inc. has received a five-year contract from Port Authority of Allegheny County, d.b.a. Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) for 15 zero-emission, battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE NG 60-foot heavy-duty transit buses (30 equivalent units or EUs), and 54 clean-diesel Xcelsior 60-foot buses (108 EUs), for a total of […].

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Making the Grade: Top Companies for Women in Transportation

Women in Trucking

Many women say they want employers with a corporate culture supportive of gender diversity, flexible hours and work requirements to accommodate family and life balance, competitive compensation and benefits, training and continued professional development, and career advancement opportunities.

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TuSimple to cut 25% of workforce

Fleet Owner

The company’s restructuring plan comes after leadership shakeups and the end of its partnership with Navistar.

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U.S. rail carload and intermodal volumes are down, for week ending December 17, reports AAR

Logistics Management

Rail carloads—at 226,977—were down 3.2%, and intermodal containers and trailers—at 249,255—fell 7.5% annually.

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Handling a Smart Century

Logistics Business Magazine

Part of the Meijer Group, Meijer Handling Solutions has just celebrated its 100th birthday. It’s been a century of innovation, and with another set to follow, the urge to innovate is far from over. Meijer Group started as a one-man business in 1921, founded by Jan Meijer in the Frisian village of Wier, the Netherlands. Like many businesses at that time, Meijer focused on local agriculture.

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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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Backorder: What it Means, Causes, and How to Reduce Temporarily Out-of-Stock Items

GoShip Blog

Backorders are inevitable in business. Learning to manage them while keeping your customers happy is key to running a successful business. What is Backorder? A backorder occurs when a customer orders an item that is temporarily out of stock. Generally, back-ordered items comprise goods that are unavailable in the seller’s current inventory but are either already in production or en route from suppliers.

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Schmitz Cargobull provides help for Ukraine

Logistics Business Magazine

With its internal pre-Christmas initiative ‘Give the gift of solidarity’, Schmitz Cargobull employees have collected almost €19,000 to support their colleagues in Ukraine during the ongoing war with Russia. Most of the money raised will be used to purchase ‘PowerHouses’ for the colleagues, which they can use to charge electrical appliances during power cuts.

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December Team Member Spotlight: Tori Bergantino-McKinnon

Envase Technologies

Get to know this month’s Envase Team Member Spotlight: Tori Bergantino-McKinnon, Product Owner for Profit Tools at Envase Technologies. Don’t forget to check out our previous team member spotlight to learn more about the interesting people who make up the Envase team! How long have you worked at Envase? What is your job & favorite part of it? I’ve been at Envase almost 4 months as a Product Owner on the Profit Tools team.

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