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

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon’s outsize growth combined with strategy shifts at FedEx and UPS have changed the balance. Department of Transportation has a plan to overcome supply chain issues, and it appears the Albuquerque metro could be a key ingredient. Before Thanksgiving this year, Amazon had already delivered more than 4.8 billion packages in the U.S.,

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Mining Mountains of Data for Insights

Enterra Insights

The problem with big data is that drawing valuable insights from the mountains of data produced by your business, as well as external data, defies efforts to collect, organize, analyze data leading to valuable insights that optimize your business for success.”[2] Alexandrov and Vesselinov are trying to make those challenges easier.

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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.

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The Top Logistics and Supply Chain Journalists & Thought Leaders to Know for 2020

Shipchain

His works have been published in The Cincinnati Enquirer, the Albuquerque Journa,l and Sun-Sentinel. . His works commonly include an analysis of global logistics trends, distribution strategies, best practices, logistics outsourcing, integrating systems and more. Dave Blanchard. Russell Goodman. China trade relations, and much more. .

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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. Finally, there are large numbers of drivers just a few years from retirement age; training a new crop of drivers will be an issue. When will we see autonomous trucks on the road? How fast will the rollout be? And who will win the race?

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‘Truckemon Go’ trucking software app

Tailwind

I don’t like it at all,” said Sheriff Wally Locker of the Albuquerque police department. “We ’ We thought that if we give them some incentive… like a weightless load…then they could pick them all up and optimize their fuel consumption”. I don’t like it. They seem to be all over the place.’