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Why the Great Driver Shortage Is Now Top of Mind for Shippers & a Driver of a Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

The Great Driver Shortage was already starting to weigh on the minds of carriers and shippers early this year as experts predicted tightening capacity, said William B. It is the top concern for shippers, and you need to know what it means for the capacity crunch. percent by the end of the third-quarter in 2017.

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Where Have The Drivers Gone?

AFFLINK

Those "things" need to be transported via truck, yet the industry lacks the capacity to do so. According to another recent report from the American Trucking Association , the shortage of drivers was expected to hit 50,000 by the end of 2017 - a trend that equates to more than 174,000 drivers by as soon as 2026.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 28 – June 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

Existing technology for EV batteries can only create cells that last up to 20 years or around 200,000 miles before their capacity drops too low to power a vehicle. Shipping companies added capacity, but now containers are stuck in port. And now on this week’s logistics news. How Shanghai’s lockdown is dampening Port of Oakland volumes.

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Guide to warehouse robots: types of warehouse robots, uses, navigation & more

6 River Systems

between 2017 and 2022, reaching $6 billion in value by 2022 , with the U.S. Warehouse robots are also classified by payload capacity. Depending on the nature of the industry and the warehouse’s needs, warehouse robots with certain payload capacity are often used more frequently in some industries than others.

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Catalog Management Systems market trends

Vinculum

The forecast period is from 2018 to 2023, whereas 2017 is the base year for estimating the market study. The retail segment is likely to continue to flourish in the catalog management market between 2018 and 2026, followed by the e-commerce segment. million by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.0% CA Technologies.

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Time to Reimagine STEM Education from Bottom to Top

Enterra Insights

” The Huffington Post , 23 January 2017. [3] The point is: It’s time to reimagine STEM education from bottom to top. The importance of STEM education. Footnotes. [1] 1] Jay Bayne, “ STEM education needs revision ,” Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel , 30 April 2016. [2]

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

The capacity crunch and technology are reshaping ?the Kearney and sponsored by Penske Logistics for CSCMP, vividly depicts a supply chain struggling under the twin demands of constrained capacity and the need for significant technological investment to help service providers and their customers keep up with soaring growth.