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Emergency Freight: What Harvey Tells Us About Irma

DAT Solutions

Less than ten days after Hurricane Harvey, trucks are already moving freight out of Houston, with almost the same volume as before the storm. Houston is also a major freight hub for rail and sea traffic, as well as trucking, including trade with Mexico by land and with South America and other regions by sea. It's just not safe.

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LTL Carrier Profile: YRC Freight

The Logistics of Logistics

LTL Carrier Profile: YRC Freight. YRC Freight is the third largest less than truckload (LTL) carrier with approximately $3.2B YRC Freight has 9.2% YRC Freight is the largest subsidiary of YRC Worldwide Inc. Reddaway became a part of YRC Worldwide in 2005. Reddaway became a part of YRC Worldwide in 2005.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Dale Rogers, a business professor at Arizona State, gave a presentation with his son Zachary Rogers, a business professor at Colorado State, during which they said that winter-holiday returns in the United States are now worth more than $300 billion a year. “So The field is large and growing.