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Trucking all in the family: Generations of owners leave lasting legacies in Overdrive

Overdrive Online

How a trucking culture was built and maintained through the years with family, past and present. Meet Eddie Karwaski of Pennsylvania, Carl Nyhof of Wisconsin, Carl Rhodes of West Virginia, and others who learned from family, hereditary or not.

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Empowering a Greener, Smarter Future in Logistics Through AI

MTS Logistics

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. Despite its transformative potential, the path to full AI integration in logistics presents challenges.

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Boston University’s Sourcing Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

At a quarterly meeting of the Institute of Supply Management, Kevin Frechette, the founder and CEO of Fair Market, gave a presentation on tail spend management. For example, the University may need to buy five snowplow attachments for the front of its Ford F-150 trucks. This is not a purchase made very often.

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A New Era in Transport Logistics with Big Data and Self-Driving Trucks

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. Autonomous Alternatives to Trucks and Vans On the other hand, we may see a divergence in the types of assets used in distribution fleets.

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TIMOCOM presents shipment tracking for carriers

Logistics Business Magazine

TIMOCOM will be presenting several innovations at the IAA Transportation in Hanover from the 20th to the 25th of September in Hall 13, Booth C40. These innovations are specifically tailored to meet the needs of carriers, in particular smaller companies and mobile device users. “We

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The Cancer of Fear

The Lean Thinker

I am sitting in on a daily production status meeting. The site has been in trouble meeting its schedule, and the division president is on the call. The fact that a shipment of material hadn’t been loaded onto the truck to an outside process is brought up. The actual consequence was a small delay, with no impact on production.

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