Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It will be difficult to fill all these positions as the profession isn’t very attractive: There is very little flexibility in the working life of a truck driver, and the pay is bad. Which truck should be used for transportation? Massive potential – thanks to big data combined with self-driving trucks.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 6, 2022

How do truck drivers eat healthy while over the road? Truck drivers can have jam-packed schedules with little time to think about their food choices. While truck stops and fast food joints are often full of food loaded with sugar, sodium, or to-go greasy food. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Skip ahead to the sections you want to read most!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 2, 2022

The author, Steve Banker, after a ride along in an autonomous truck from TORC. There is no doubt that autonomous trucks will change the face of logistics. What kind of trucks will they be? When will we see autonomous trucks on the road? TORC is an autonomous truck company and an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck.

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The Lean Thinker

MAY 27, 2020

A typical rental box truck is about 12 feet high (3.65 The result: The more astute of you may have noticed the “OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN” sign just above the smashed truck. Well before the truck approaches the intersection, it passes under a height sensor. And still they miss it. But over a dozen a year do.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2022

What would most revolutionize trucking over the next few years? The most obvious answer is autonomous trucking. Autonomous trucks in truck yards? Autonomous truck conveys? Or autonomous trucks moving on the Interstate? Safety should always be a concern for a trucking firm. Will it take decades?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This article is from Emerge and offers tips for trucking companies to decrease their insurance premiums. The number of accidents in the trucking industry is up, and so are insurance premiums. As an industry, trucking associations are advocating tort reform. Agencies Advocate Tort Reform. By 2018, the average grew to $22.3

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

For example, he wanted a better way to manage tail spend. For example, the University may need to buy five snowplow attachments for the front of its Ford F-150 trucks. Last year, the company saw $3.5 million in savings from early payments. For certain purchases, representing 2% of their total spend, “it was the Wild Wild West.”

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2023

Finding available trucking capacity is often a challenge, especially when demand is high. We see this, for example, in the number of empty backhauls that happen every day. Finding available trucking capacity is often a challenge, especially when demand is high. The sad truth, however, is that a lot of capacity gets wasted too.

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CH Robinson Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Robinson Director of Research and Market Intelligence: The truck driver shortage is top of mind for many as supply chain disruptions continue, port backlogs persist, and the gap between inventory supply and sales demand widens. How many more truck drivers are needed to balance demand for truck transportation with the supply of capacity?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2024

Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication systems are revolutionizing road safety, especially in the freight, trucking, and logistics industry. For example, if a vehicle ahead brakes suddenly, the following vehicle receives an instant alert, enabling timely braking and preventing rear-end collisions.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Self-driving trucks and drones, a rapidly developing facet of AI in logistics, streamline delivery operations, addressing labor shortages and reducing reliance on human drivers. From autonomous vehicles to predictive analytics and advanced tracking, AI technologies are reshaping how goods are moved, monitored, and managed across the globe.

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Freightera

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Electric Trucks Are The Future, But How Close Is That Future? While passenger electric cars have seen widespread adoption, transitioning the freight industry to electric trucks has proven to be very challenging, for multiple reasons. Battery Weight and Size One of the most significant hurdles for electric freight trucks is the battery.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Innovative Lithium-Ion Solutions Previewed A highlight of Impact Live 2024 was the preview of lithium-ion battery-powered trucks, emphasising the company’s commitment to delivering Clean Power that Means Business.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 5, 2023

If your company operates a distribution fleet, you’ll know that the costs of running trucks for customer deliveries are continually increasing. The following tips should prove helpful in getting those truck running costs down. But do you know how to operate your fleet for the maximum economy?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 28, 2022

TuSimple Holdings (NASDAQ: TSP) – in its most recent call with financial analysts – reaffirmed that they expect to have fully autonomous trucks on the road in 2024. Autonomous Freight Trucks. That would make autonomous trucks too cost prohibitive for most shippers.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

The Emergence of Regionalized Freight Networks Why Regional Networks Are Growing Cost Efficiency in Freight Movement Shorter shipping distances within regionalized freight networks reduce costs associated with long-haul trucking, fuel, and warehousing. Electric and alternative-fuel trucks for short-haul deliveries.

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The Lean Thinker

MAY 28, 2020

After yesterday’s post about trucks crashing into the famous 11foot8 bridge and mistake proofing, I got the feeling I should drive home my key point that the problem isn’t with the driver, it is with the environment. “Making an example of someone” might well work for a group for a short time.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For example, less-than-truckload shipping requires 12 linear feet and pallets ranging from one to six, with a maximum of 10 pallets per truck. Small Business Friendly: Not every firm, especially small or starting businesses, has a large enough inventory to fill a whole truck. It works in the same way that LCL does.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Mobile robots use camera data, while autonomous trucks use truck sensors, LIDAR, and camera data. The platform has thresholds that say, for example, “If the dollar value of orders changes a little, that doesn’t matter. Short-term forecasting relies on POS and other forms of downstream data.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

We went into tracking the actual assets, vehicles and trucks. The device is connected to either a canvas or some sensors in the vehicle and the truck. We play with the class 1 through 5 vehicles, which are primarily the delivery truck, the standard delivery vehicle or the fleet. It is knowing where that truck is.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 3, 2020

This cargo is usually dropped or poured, with a spout or shovel bucket, into a bulk carrier ship’s hold, railroad car, or tanker truck/trailer/semi-trailer body. Container ships are cargo ships that carry their entire load in truck-size containers, in a technique called containerization. Transportation Service #7 – Intermodal.

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GoShip Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

LTL shipping allows businesses to share truck space with other shippers. This makes it ideal for smaller loads that dont require a full truck, helping you save on costs while still moving goods efficiently. Flexibility: Perfect for smaller, recurring shipments that dont justify the cost of a full truck.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 20, 2024

Lucas Systems, a seasoned player in the industry, is a prime example. Kyle Franklin, a senior solution consultant at Lucas, gave a simple example. Assume that a FedEx truck is scheduled to arrive at noon, a UPS truck at 3:00, and a United States Postal Service truck at 4:30.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

For example, most people expect free next-day delivery for online purchases as a result of Amazon Prime. Looking at the example of route optimization, as a company takes more trucks off the road, or reduces the number of miles driven, it is better for carbon emissions, but also for profitability.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

He then led Power2Ship as it pioneered digital freight matching in the trucking industry in the early 2000s. Example: A shipper or broker posts a load on multiple load boards and then the load is covered by a carrier. In this example, the covered load is now a ghost load, yet dozens of companies don’t know it yet.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For example: we have the traditional warehouse and the cold storage warehouse. Using automated picking systems, for example, can speed up the product-picking process compared to manual picking, reducing the time needed to prepare shipping orders. Which Type of Logistics Warehouse is Right for Your Business?

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Talking Logistics

JULY 20, 2023

Finding available trucking capacity is often a challenge, especially when demand is high. We see this, for example, in the number of empty backhauls that happen every day. The sad truth, however, is that a lot of capacity gets wasted too. There is another form of wasted capacity, however, that many shippers overlook — that.

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 12, 2025

For example, numerous ports are still severely congested today. In Antwerp, just in February, export truck gates got restricted, and the terminal temporarily stopped newly additional import and transshipment cargo. Gulf exporters that are shipping pretty much anywhere that goes via transshipment.

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Conger

MARCH 14, 2024

Are you familiar with forklifts but interested in learning about clamp trucks and what they can do? If you are involved in transporting materials such as hay, paper rolls, or other irregularly shaped items, a clamp truck could be the ideal solution. Table of Contents Toggle What is a Clamp Truck? Let’s dive in!

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 6, 2022

Running more efficient routes, with more fully loaded trucks, saves money and reduces emissions. For example, Oracle is using average emission from a 5-ton truck, or a bulk tanker. A company, for example, could model the operational impact of shifting the lead time for deliveries to customers from 4 days to 6 days.

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Truck News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Trucking has an undeniable role in the journey toward a greener world, and you don’t have to look very far to see examples of changes in the works. And each day we learn about advances in trucks powered by batteries and fuel cells alike. […].

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

For example, if a promotion plan has not been correctly modeled for the warehouse, there may not be enough storage capacity, dock doors, or workers to execute the days work. The logic behind how many pallets it takes to fill a truck is similar to pallet-building logic. If you put product B on the bottom, those cartons will be crushed.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 21, 2023

An example: Autonomous vehicles are becoming more active in trucking. Robotics and artificial intelligence are changing more than the warehouse, says Ray Roberts, enterprise sales executive at Logiwa.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

Now imagine doing that with a whole fleet of trucks, each one needing to make 20 or 30 deliveries in a day – that’s essentially what route optimisation is. A good KPI dashboard can show you for example, the difference between planned and actual kilometers for each route. Let me break down what you really need to consider.

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GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Automation and Digitalization Automation is becoming increasingly prevalent in the trucking industry, revolutionizing dispatching, load matching, and fleet management. The trucking industry is continuously improving fuel efficiency, reducing idle time, and optimizing routes to lower costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2025

For example, ARC was recently briefed on SAPs transportation management product. This manufacturer has about 1000 trucks per day arriving at their biggest plant. These truck shipments did not use an advanced shipping notice like they were supposed to. SAP is, and has been, actively creating agents.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 18, 2023

Multimodal transport, also known as combined transport, is a transport system that involves the movement of goods using multiple modes of transport such as trucks, rail, air and ships. For example, after a cargo shipment starts by road, it can continue by sea or air. Some common examples include: 1. Truck-Railroad.

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