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FMCSA Grants $1 Million to Veterans Who Want to Be Trained as Truck Drivers

GlobalTranz

But fortunately, the FMCSA just awarded $1 million in grants to help “train and place veterans in careers as commercial truck and bus drivers,” as part of a larger series of programs to help veterans transition into civilian life. These problems have contributed to veteran homelessness for decades.

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TX Logistik tests 838m train in Sweden

Logistics Business Magazine

TX Logistik AB , Swedish subsidiary of Germany’s TX Logistik AG, has test-run a freight train with a length of 838 meters in Sweden. The rail logistics company, which is part of the Mercitalia Group (Gruppo FS Italiane), operated the fully loaded train on the approximately 500km route between Malmö and Frövi (Örebro province).

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The Dark Funnel with Tom Augenthaler

The Logistics of Logistics

Tom is a pioneer in the space and has been working with influencers since 2007 while with Hewlett Packard, and as a consultant helping corporate clients since 2009. Tom offers full team training on the many different aspects of the process, one on one mentoring, or strategy calls.

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Automation To Help Smooth Singles’ Day Peak

Logistics Business Magazine

Single people mark the occasion by spoiling and treating themselves to gifts and presents, but it wasn’t until Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba chose the date to offer heavily discounted merchandise on its platform for 24 hours, starting at midnight on the 11th November, 2009, that Singles’ Day became a major commercial event.

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Shipping Hazmat? Here’s What You Need to Know.

Trinity Logistics

This ensures best possible safety in transit with trained, qualified drivers, while helping mitigate risk for customers. In 2009, we became part of the Responsible Care ® Partnership Program to further our dedication to the chemical shipping industry. Tanker Endorsement. All states began enforcing this regulation in July 2015.

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The Evolving Supply Chain Skills of the Workforce

Material Handling and Logistics

Training for the Future. “We In fact, a study from 2009 found that nearly 96% of all managers and executives are extroverts. Another push in training future supply chain leaders that MSU is working on is ethics in the workplace. Pero, department chair, Supply Chain Management, with Michigan State University.

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HBR: Managers Think They’re Good At Coaching. They’re Not.

The Lean Thinker

We have been training effective coaches long before 2009 when the original book was published. And there are very effective training and mentoring programs out there that do not explicitly follow the Coaching Kata / Improvement Kata framework. The Coaching Kata framework is certainly not the only way to develop coaching skills.