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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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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. These trucks would travel relatively short distances from a factory or warehouse and drop the trailer at the terminal. The author, Steve Banker, after a ride along in an autonomous truck from TORC. What kind of trucks will they be?

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

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The ratio is a sensitive, real-time indicator of the balance between demand and capacity. on Friday, as the re-scheduled freight emerged from warehouses and headed east and north. on Friday, as the re-scheduled freight emerged from warehouses and headed east and north. Blame the weather. Outbound ratios rose from 5.0

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How Will ELDs and Christmas Affect Van Rates?

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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. Just look at this Hot Market Map for Monday, the first day under the new ELD Mandate. In recent years, e-commerce has kept rates high through early January.