Trucking Shortage Hurting US Economy
Major US companies are feeling the effects of the capacity shortage on their bottom lines, as earnings reports from late Q4 2017 and Q1 2018 are beginning to show. One…
This Week in Logistics – courtesy of Logistics Viewpoints
Logistics Viewpoints is a great site to grab a weekly logistics news roundup. This week: home grocery deliveries, mandatory Amazon news, autonomous vehicles (pre-Arizona collision tragedy), and mandatory Trump news.…
TORRENT of STUFF™: The Last-Mile Transportation Future ©
For some time now, e-commerce has been reinventing retail and distribution. Nearly everything consumers can think to purchase is competitively priced, and instantly available at the click of a…
2017 Logistics: Truck Transportation Rates
2017: Trucking rates reached all-time highs for all three major categories- van, reefer, and deck. Robust, consumer-driven economic growth across North America and world markets propelled transportation demand in general.…
2017 Logsitics: ELD Mandate
Reviews are Out, Ballots are In, and Chads are Hung by the Chimney with Care ...That was a Y2K US election joke, for you millennials ;) It\'s time again…
Tesla\’s Electric Truck Live Unveil Tonight 8pm CST
UPDATE 500 mile range, plus additional 400 miles after 30 minute charge 0-60 mph in 20 seconds, @80,000 lbs, and accelerates up 5% gradient to 65 mph $1.26…
Happy Halloween, I\’ll ship you some toothpaste XD
Among holidays, Halloween is fairly minor in terms of consumer spending (if you count Halloween as a holiday). Still, $9.1B is some big chunk of change. The total breaks down…
Scott Galloway – How Amazon is Dismantling Retail
I\'ve just discovered Scott Galloway (for myself, I mean). This talk on Amazon and the future of commerce/retail is from 2016 and one of the more insightful talks I\'ve seen…
Who Needs Cargo Insurance?
Steve Fodor posted a short article on the top 3 erroneous assumptions regarding cargo insurance...AND a great (maybe not if it\'s YOUR freight) photo of a container ship \"incident\" here…
BBC\’s Year in the Life of a Shipping Container
I keep coming back to this one- amazed at our modern consumer economy, how much STUFF travels in containers, how rugged containers really are, and the lengths they travel. Hats…
