Accidents Happen: Is Your Transportation Partner Prepared?

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[ad_1] October 17, 2016 | By Chris Cotter Tags: Trucking, Partnership, Risk Management, Transportation When a personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit is brought against a commercial transportation company after a motor vehicle accident, creative lawyers are increasingly including negligence claims. Such claims focus attention on how the transportation company […]

Trends—December 2016 – Inbound Logistics

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[ad_1] December 29, 2016 | By Jason McDowell Tags: Trucking, Security, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain Happy New Year! Time for Your Annual Supply Chain Health Check Throughout the course of 2016, your supply chain was plugging away, receiving and handling new product lines, efficiently fulfilling e-commerce orders during slow times […]

How Driverless Trucks Will Change Supply Chain Strategy

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[ad_1] December 29, 2016 | By Jeff Potts Tags: Trucking, Transportation, Logistics, Technology , Supply Chain In the popular 1985 movie “Back to the Future”, it was predicted that by the year 2015, we would have the ability to fly our cars in the friendly skies. While that version of […]

Leveraging Your Routing Guide – Inbound Logistics

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[ad_1] January 17, 2017 Tags: 3PL, Trucking, Transportation, Logistics, Technology , Third-Party Logistics, Supply Chain A routing guide plays an important role in setting the strategy for carrier selection. It is essentially a shipper’s guide to choosing a carrier to move a particular shipment. While there are many forms of […]

Cloud Collaboration Increases Supply Chain Efficiency

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[ad_1] January 17, 2017 | By Dan Clark Tags: Trucking, Transportation, Logistics, Technology , Supply Chain Defined as the art of working together to produce or create something, collaboration has become a focal point for organizations that want to work smarter, better, and more efficiently in today’s competitive business world. […]

The Slow, Steady Decline Of the Owner-Operator Model

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[ad_1] January 17, 2017 | By Anthony Berritto Tags: Trucking, Legislation, Public Policy, and Regulations, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain Today, we face the slow extinction of independent owner-operators. These self-reliant business owners are dealing with a myriad of regulations that will soon make the owner-operator model impractical, and its survival […]

Baseball Logistics: Hitting a Home Run Every Trip

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[ad_1] January 17, 2017 | By Gary Wollenhaupt Tags: Trucking, Expedited Shipping, Specialized Logistics, Transportation Off the diamond, truckers and clubhouse staff work tirelessly to execute the logistics of Spring Training. Here’s how they achieve this Haul of Fame accomplishment. Once the historic Game 7 of the 2016 World Series […]

Trends—March 2017 – Inbound Logistics

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[ad_1] March 27, 2017 | By Jason McDowell Tags: Trucking, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Transportation Infrastructure, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, Sustainability Freight Rails Make Federal Case for Funding Private funding for infrastructure is a valuable tool that can save money for the American taxpayer, but it isn’t a be-all, end-all […]

Today’s Competitive Supply Chain: Digital, Smaller, More Resilient

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[ad_1] March 27, 2017 | By Sean Riley Tags: 3PL, Ocean, Trucking, Cloud Computing, Transportation, Logistics, Technology , Third-Party Logistics, Supply Chain Sean Riley is Global Industry Director, Supply Chain, Manufacturing & Transportation, Software AG, 630-434-0720 Historically, the supply chain and manufacturing industry has been relatively slow to embrace […]

Alaska: Conquering The Last Frontier

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[ad_1] April 19, 2017 Tags: Air Cargo, Ocean, Trucking, Economic Development, Site Selection, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain Alaska has much to offer. It encompasses nearly 600,000 square miles, is home to one of the largest oil fields in North America, and boasts breathtaking scenery. It also presents logistics challenges and […]

Autonomous Vehicle Revolution Is Upon Us

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[ad_1] July 21, 2017 | By Robert Hooper Tags: Trucking, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain Self-driving or autonomous vehicles are progressing quickly past the testing phase. This technology is a world-changing innovation—a revolution well underway—that may surpass the discovery of electricity and the invention of the automobile. What sets this revolution […]

The Economy Will Grow. Is That Bad News?

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[ad_1] September 21, 2017 | By Keith Biondo Tags: Trucking, Economic Development, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain Keith Biondo is the publisher of Inbound Logistics magazine. For this annual trucking issue, we surveyed both shippers and carriers on important issues impacting the trucking industry. Most importantly, we solicited their views on […]

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