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Overtime Rules Face Challenges in Courts and Congress

DAT Solutions

New Overtime Rules "A Slap in the Face" to Freight Brokers. Regarding the Texas lawsuit, it’s unclear whether the court will hold a hearing or issue any decision before December 1, according to Will Sehestedt, government affairs manager for the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA), a trade organization for freight brokers.

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Webinar Recap: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Resilinc

We need to start putting the ingredients in place today,” Linton said in a July 15 webinar: The Case for a Pan American Manufacturing Ecosystem. The live discussion, moderated by Resilinc CEO Bindiya Vakil, also included Arizona State University Professor of Supply Chain Management Dale Rogers.

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3 Logistics Technology Trends in 2016: Automation Leads the Way

GlobalTranz

In fact, autonomous vehicles are already being used by a logistics provider in Arizona. 2016 will an increase in the use robotic technology in more warehouses, when loading shipment and freight on tow trucks, when unloading shipment at distribution centers, and possibly when the item is delivered at the doorstep.

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The Best Practices of LTL Shipping

GlobalTranz

Unfortunately, carriers have made figuring out best practices and freight pricing difficult, but you can simplify the process if you know how to distinguish different modes of shipping, when to use less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping, and how combining LTL shipping with other modes of shipping will provide the greatest benefit.

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6 Future Transportation Technologies That Will Change Transportation (and the Trucking Industry) Forever

GlobalTranz

Unfortunately, Uber recently suspended their tests after one of their vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona in March 2018. The Freight & Transportation Management Trends to Know in 2018. Download White Paper.

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Top Supply Chain Articles of 2015

GlobalTranz

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. When I was Materials Manager at Maricopa County, Arizona, the second largest county in the country, I introduced Vendor Managed Inventory.