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Trucking Market Update and 2020 Q1 Freight Outlook

Zipline Logistics

The trade war, started in 2017, resulted in a threatened 25 percent tariff rate on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. According to an article published in the Guardian on Dec. The possible thawing of tense relations could spell an eventual welcomed change from the logistics world.

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Low unemployment is great for everyone, right? (Not so much in logistics…)

NC State SCRC

The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted that in May 2017, unemployment rates in seven states were at their lowest levels since the state unemployment data series began in January 1976. percent, followed by North Dakota, 2.5 Average hourly pay increased 2.5%. Colorado had the lowest unemployment rate in May, 2.3

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15 – 21)

Logistics Viewpoints

According to Dr. Myles Dyson, Chief Scientist at Cyberdyne, the technology will be live by late 2017, or “Judgement Day” as they have named the project timeline. Nestle has partnerships with ADM and Ardent Mills, the two primary wheat flour suppliers for DiGiorno products, to support wheat farms in Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota and Indiana.