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Parcel Fulfillment Forum Boasts Leg-Up Strategies for the Amazon Age

Blue bins choking on Amazon cardboard are a sign of the times.

Podcast | A Plan for Slashing Infrastructure Costs

Infrastructure costs are soaring. But what if there was a way to slash them by more than a third?

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Perspective | Amazon’s ‘Worker Cage’ Has Been Dropped, But Its Staff Are Not Free

The company’s dystopian patent is shocking — and shows how blue- and white-collar workers are controlled at every turn.

The Key to the Trucking Capacity Crunch and Driver Shortage: Shippers

There are a number of steps that a shipper should take to improve workflows, thus making a truck driver’s job less difficult, and earning it the status of “preferred shipper.”

A driver walks toward a truck at a loading dock. Photo: Shutterstock.

Anheuser-Busch Pauses Beer Brewing to Ship Cans of Water to Hurricane Florence Victims

Hurricane Florence, this Bud’s for you. Anheuser-Busch is sending six truckloads of canned drinking water, more than 300,000 cans, to North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

Airbus Is Using Sails to Cut Shipping Emissions at Sea

Airbus has announced it will attach sails to one of its transport ships to increase fuel efficiency.

Hurricane Florence: Auto, Packaged Food Supply Chains at Risk

Heavy rains assaulted North Carolina’s Outer Banks early Thursday as Hurricane Florence continued to lumber toward the East Coast, still carrying the threat of a deadly 13-foot ocean surge and flooding rains that will drench the state.

Photo: NASA

Four Forces Transforming Supply Chain, Logistics and Transportation Today

Few industries or business functions are experiencing as much disruption as logistics, supply chain and transportation.

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Self-Driving Technology Threatens Nearly 300,000 Trucking Jobs, Report Says

Autonomous driving technology could replace some 294,000 long-distance truck drivers over the next 25 years, a lighter impact than some have predicted but one that could still significantly reshape freight-industry employment, according to a new research paper.

Mid-Atlantic Ports Brace for Hurricane Florence

The U.S. Coast Guard has ordered merchant ships and ports in the mid-Atlantic region to prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Florence, which is expected to reach shore on Friday.

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Ford Will Not Build New Focus Cars in U.S., Despite Trump’s Tariffs Tweet

Ford will not be moving production of a hatchback to the U.S. from China — despite Donald Trump’s claim on Sunday that his taxes on Chinese imports mean the Focus Active can be built in America.

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Five Tips for Building Driver Loyalty

To trucking industry executives, there’s just one certainty: You can never be too certain about your drivers. With industry experiencing a crippling shortage in that area, it’s crucial that companies take action to retain their current workforces.

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