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The Top 100 Logistics Companies with Seth Clevenger

The Logistics of Logistics

is a native of northwest Ohio. He is a 2005 graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. About Transport Topics Since 1935, Transport Topics has been the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Spot freight demand has softened, and truck capacity has loosened since the frenetic days of the 2021 freight boom.

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Mexico Transportation Risk with Mark Vickers

The Logistics of Logistics

Mark spent over 7 years in leadership with the second largest freight brokerage in North America, Total Quality Logistics. One hundred percent of our customers are in trucking and logistics including ~10,000 motor carriers and ~800 freight brokers. During his tenure, they went from $500M to $3B in sales. Mark earned a B.S.,

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How Exceptional Companies Grow with Sarah Ahern & Jonathon McKay

The Logistics of Logistics

Her unique approach to research and strategy is based on a decade-long career launching successful B2B and B2C programs and products across North America. Sarah is a 40 Under 40 recipient, a certified Innovative Leadership Coach, and an active board member in the Ohio community. The Greenscreens.ai The Greenscreens.ai

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Planes, Cranes, and Barges: How America Is Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos. Rickenbacker International Airport was a bustling hub for air freight well before the pandemic—a day’s truck drive to half of the U.S. International freight being unloaded at Rickenbacker airport. a digital freight forwarder. Businessweek.

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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

GEON, headquartered in Westlake Ohio, has about 1000 employees. The company has 11 production facilities across North America and China. A plant in Ohio delivering a shipment to a customer in Minnesota may well find that the profitability of that order is less than an order for the same product delivered to a customer in Kentucky.

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Ohio Train Crash Puts Spotlight on Heat Sensors Panned as Unreliable

Supply Chain Brain

million freight cars in North America would cost huge sums. The railroad industry has defended the devices, saying they have helped reduce accidents. Deploying better monitoring equipment to the more than 1.6

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

Transportation and freight costs are reduced. Premium freight capacity improves. Ford, second only to Walmart in reshoring over the past five years, brought 3,250 jobs from Mexico to Michigan and Ohio to build F-650 and F-750 trucks, Fusion cars, and engines. for example, compared to shipping state-to-state.