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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

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How Walmart and Alphabet jumped ahead of Amazon in drone delivery. USPS slowing first-class package delivery to lower costs. Quanta Computer, which produces nearly three-quarters of Apple’s Macbooks globally, also shut down its operations, which could impact deliveries for the foreseeable future.

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Transport Drones & Autonomous Vehicles: The Transportation Mode Dance Card is Getting Full

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First off, the video shows the use of machine-to-machine connectivity, a hallmark of the Internet of Things (IoT), and you notice the transport drones do not appear to be currently operated by a human, which implies a preprogrammed effort to allow drones to automatically arrive at their destinations. Full Truckload and Less-Than-Truckload.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 3)

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According to the annual survey by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics, nearly 180 million Americans shopped during the five-day holiday shopping period from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday. Black Friday is in the books, and unsurprisingly, it was a big one. That is a sobering thought.