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This Week in Logistics News (July 29 – August 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

Of the 176 local unions with UPS members, 14 affiliates did not show up to a meeting in Washington DC to review the agreement. Walmart puts its students up in a hotel and transports them back and forth to the training center while they continue to be paid. O’Brien. Graduates earn their commercial driver licenses.

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The Big Miss: The Critical Success Element Most Retailers and Industry Analysts Are Overlooking When Talking about Surviving and Thriving in the Age of Retail Disruption

BlueYonder

Rainer Strack’s popular TED Talk on the workforce crisis of 2030 shows how much job seekers’ preferences are changing. Retail has a far bigger problem that is rapidly coming to the surface, and they need to look no further than the transportation industry and the rideshare phenomenon to grasp it. Just how many gig workers are there?

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The Changing Grocery Landscape

Enterra Insights

Washington Analysis, a research firm in Washington, D.C., Consider this: in December 2019, the percentage of e-commerce grocery sales in the US market was slightly under 4 percent; it’s now in the low teens and is expected to reach roughly 25 percent by 2030. ”[3] Why all the fuss about the merger?

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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

17 states stand by plan to electrify 30% of trucks and buses by 2030. A coalition of 17 states, as well as the District of Columbia and Canadian province of Quebec, plan to electrify 30 percent of new trucks and buses in their jurisdictions by 2030. Cargo begins clogging Port of Los Angeles amid railroad worker shortage.

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Eric Beckwitt Selected as a Keynote Speaker at CleanTech Innovation Showcase in Seattle on June 24th

Freightera

From the press release by CleanTech Alliance: “One of this year’s keynote speakers for the Showcase include Eric Beckwitt, the Founder and CEO of Freightera, the North American platform for automating and reducing emissions from freight transport.

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The Big Miss: The Critical Success Element Most Retailers and Industry Analysts Are Overlooking When Talking about Surviving and Thriving in the Age of Retail Disruption

BlueYonder

Rainer Strack’s popular TED Talk on the workforce crisis of 2030 shows how much job seekers’ preferences are changing. Retail has a far bigger problem that is rapidly coming to the surface, and they need to look no further than the transportation industry and the rideshare phenomenon to grasp it. Just how many gig workers are there?

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This Week in Logistics News (June 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Most of the Washington, DC, metro area is now experiencing hazardous air conditions. It’s part of the drink brand’s initiative to become carbon neutral by 2030. The figure released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there were 1,609,200 seasonally adjusted jobs in the truck transportation sector in May.