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This Week in Logistics News (November 25 – December 1)

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For the first time, personal care or beauty items also cracked into the top five most popular gifts. The company is boasting its quickest delivery time yet, saying that packages are being prepared for dispatch within 11 minutes of an order placement at same-day facilities. In fact, to kick off the holiday shopping season, a record 200.4

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Autonomous Truck Company Torc Robotics Aims to Scale

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Steve Banker, after a ride along in an autonomous truck from TORC In 2022, Torc Robotics – a provider of autonomous trucks for the middle mile – and Daimler Truck, who is the majority owner of Torc, held an event for journalists and financial analysts at a Torc facility in Albuquerque. That just wasn’t the case five years ago.”

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The “Race” to Win the Autonomous Truck Market

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TORC and Daimler Truck held an event for journalists last week at a TORC facility in Albuquerque. There are different types of trucks and different types of routes used in hauling freight. The author, Steve Banker, after a ride along in an autonomous truck from TORC. What kind of trucks will they be? How fast will the rollout be?

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L.A. freight gets a tailwind from hurricanes and typhoons

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West Coast van freight heated up last week, especially in the Los Angeles market. In mid-September, we were focused on evacuating the Carolinas and diverting trucks and freight away from Hurricane Florence. The ratio is a sensitive, real-time indicator of the balance between demand and capacity. Blame the weather. lost traction.

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How Will ELDs and Christmas Affect Van Rates?

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Late pushes to get freight in place before Christmas led to higher rates rose out of Buffalo and Allentown, PA. The distribution centers and warehouses in those markets serve the big population centers of the Northeast, so a lot of retail freight is being hauled to its final destination now. RISING LANES. FALLING LANES.

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Extra capacity takes a bite out of prices

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Of course, for a lot of trucking companies, the work week can easily last six or seven days, but either way, one thing that the activity on the DAT Load Board told us last week was that pretty much everyone was back to working full time. Plus, freight moves are less urgent at this time of year, so prices down were across the country.

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How Long Will Van Rates Stay This High?

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mile, which is way higher than usual for this time of year. Retail freight is expected to be more plentiful this year, and port traffic is way up. One of the few head haul lanes out of Denver is to Albuquerque , but even it was down 13¢ at $1.96/mile. For more than a month now, rates have averaged above $2.00/mile,