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Adopting EV Fleets Presents Challenges

Logistics Business Magazine

In fact, many businesses are presented with multiple barriers when they begin to adopt EV that can sometimes halt the process. As with most things, failing to properly plan and prepare is a challenge many businesses will face as this will result in an ineffective EV integration strategy.

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Eclipse Management Strategies: Adapting Operations While Maximizing the Experience

Linxup

For fleet-based field service industries, this presents a unique challenge and opportunity. On April 8th, 2024, the world will witness a rare celestial event: a total (in some areas) solar eclipse.

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E-Commerce Logistics Strategies: The State of E-Commerce Logistics Heading Into Peak Season

GlobalTranz

Successful e-commerce strategies for managing the demands of peak season revolve around how well an organization understands the state of e-commerce itself and its implications for capacity. As the months passed within the COVID-19 pandemic, the trucking industry appeared to make up for its startling declines.

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LHoF presents new humanitarian award

Logistics Business Magazine

Starting in 2023, the Logistics Hall of Fame will present a new international award: the Lynn C. The 80-year-old US businessman transferred industrial logistics strategies to humanitarian organisations in the 1990s. The Euro pallet once cut the loading time of freight cars or trucks by up to 90%. The award is named after Lynn C.

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How to Best Use a Spot Market Strategy During This Market Shift

CH Robinson Logistics

The short answer is “yes,” as long as you have a segmented freight portfolio strategy for both the contract market and the spot market. Every business has a responsibility to develop strategies that take advantage of the best market price and service. Economics of trucking is clear. Segment your freight portfolio.

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Truck Capacity Shortage: The Past, Present and Future

Talking Logistics

From the last half of 2017 through today and beyond, a slew of market forces, some predictable and some unexpected, have combined to create a very real truck capacity shortage in the United States. Market Review: Past, Present and Future. Make no mistake — today, it’s a carrier’s world and shippers are living in it. ELD Mandate.

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Record owner-op income, despite cost inflation, could be longer-term trucking trend with these success strategies

Overdrive Online

It's not possible now, noted presenters in this Overdrive/ATBS seminar, held at MATS. Sit in on the presentation in full via video here. What typically happens when freight's good? Fleets flood the market with new equipment, driving rates down.