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The Overlooked Advantage in Trucking with Blake Grolmus

The Logistics of Logistics

He assumed his current role leading Ruan’s safety and compliance teams in 2022. Blake was raised in Williamsburg, Iowa and earned his undergraduate degrees in Finance, Real Estate, and Marketing from the University of Northern Iowa.

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Give Your Sweetheart Something Expensive This Valentine’s Day: Eggs

Enterra Insights

in November [2022], up from $1.72 More than 43 million of the 58 million birds slaughtered over the past year to control the virus have been egg-laying chickens, including some farms with more than a million birds apiece in major egg-producing states like Iowa.” 4] Greg Iacurci, “ Here’s why egg prices surged in 2022.

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Logistics Viewpoints

They have asked they value chain partners to take four actions: Report their scope 1 and 2 emissions by the end of 2022. Develop an action plan for sustainable ingredients and share their plan for developing regenerative agriculture acres by the end 2022. These are hyperlocal organizations like Practical Farmers of Iowa.

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[AI]griculture

Enterra Insights

” That problem, according to Soumik Sarkar, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University, is that “precision agriculture is not that precise.” John Deere unveiled its first fully autonomous tractor at CES [in January 2022]. ” Fix Solutions Lab from Grist, 13 January 2022. [5]

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The Best States to Buy a Car In!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Iowa: $1,071. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on August 13, 2022. . – Wisconsin:998/yr average. – Idaho: $1,010/yr average. – North Carolina: $1,018/yr average. – Vermont: $1,063/yr average. – Indiana: $1,068/yr average. The post The Best States to Buy a Car In!

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This Week in Logistics News (January 2 – 8)

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Hy-Vee is also administering the Moderna vaccine to frontline health care workers in Iowa and Minnesota. The four WestJet planes are being converted to cargo jets and will join the Amazon Air fleet this year, while the seven Delta planes will be added in 2022 after their conversion.

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Driver Shortage in Trucking: Time for Plan B

Talking Logistics

If freight demand grows as it is projected to, the driver shortage could balloon to nearly 240,000 drivers by 2022.” According to the American Trucking Associations , “the industry needs to find an average of roughly 96,000 new drivers annually to keep pace with demand. The driver shortage story is not new, but it’s arguably getting worse.

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