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Digitized Trucking: Turning The Logistics Value Chain Upside Down

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Imagine that you own a truck and you receive an order from a soft drink manufacturer in Missouri to transport around 5000 kilograms of freight. By 2025, 63.5 Welcome to the Grand Era of Digitized Trucking! . As the old saying goes: products cost money [while] services make money.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15 – 21)

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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. Women make up 12 percent of commercial drivers nationwide, according to the 2023 Women in Trucking Index , released this month.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 27 – March 5)

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The governors urging the change are from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas, South Carolina, Alabama, and Missouri. Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle was crowned the best performer on plastics use for its commitment to eliminate all single-use plastics by 2025.