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

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Cargo ships were re-routed or delayed en route to and from ports from Savannah to Baltimore. Ships in and near Hong Kong were delayed, which caused a disruption of traffic at the top U.S. The ratio is a sensitive, real-time indicator of the balance between demand and capacity. Denver to Albuquerque got a 7¢ increase, to $2.18/mile.