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Boot Barn Implements Intelligent Warehouse Automation and Control System

Logistics Viewpoints

The company also operates store support and distribution centers in California and Kansas. The Wichita, Kansas facility supports the company’s expanding e-commerce business. The company operates over 200 stores in the US and e-commerce websites consisting primarily of bootbarn.com, sheplers.com and countryoutfitter.com.

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The Backorder, March 20 2024

Unleashed

To relax, I read Adam Gnade : he’s a modern day John Steinbeck out of San Diego and living on a farm in Kansas. “After studying business and managing teams for 10 years, I try my very best to avoid cliche business books. His work is poetic, beautiful, harsh, and sometimes crass. Always full of perspective.”

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Warehousing News Roundup: April 8, 2019

Stord

For example, Kansas City Southern has accepted trains from other lines that it usually wouldn’t have to accommodate. In California, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach released a clean trucks assessment, the next step in their public plan to establish zero-emissions trucking at their facilities by 2035.

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Rates and Demand Are Still High for Refrigerated Freight

DAT Solutions

Reefer rates were up big in Northern California , but the wildfires raging in that area may affect some routes. Chicago to Kansas City also had a big increase at $3.48/mile, Rates below include fuel surcharges and are based on real transactions between brokers and carriers. Be careful out there. Fresno to Seattle was up 30¢ to $2.80/mile.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 12-16, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Baidu receives approval from California DMV to test self-driving cars (Reuters). Google Express, the tech company’s fast delivery service, expands in Kansas City (Kansas City Star). Uber debuts self-driving vehicles in landmark Pittsburgh trial (Reuters). New Transport Mode to Redefine Freight Movement. project44 Raises $10.5M

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Outbound Tender Rejections Increase for the First Time Since March Peak

Zipline Logistics

Covering loads has been easy in the Northeast, except outbound South Texas, Southern California, and Florida as capacity out of these regions is tighter with produce heating up. Refrigerated outbound Midwest to California capacity is hard to find currently because of increased demand from reopened production and produce season.

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Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Zipline Logistics

That is e specially the case for outbound freight in southern states and California where produce season is in full swing. . No issues cover ing loads throughout the market, except for outbound freight from California, South Texas, Georgia, and Florida to the N ortheast as capacity is tighter. California ? .

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