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El NiƱo Hits California Freight, With a Double-Edged Sword

DAT Solutions

California needs rain and the El Niño storm season promises to bring plenty, along with flooding and landslides. California has experienced record rainfall for the past two months, and the ground simply can't absorb any more water. The Tucson market is currently the strongest area, including the border crossing at Nogales, AZ.

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A Common Career Thread

BlueYonder

The nearest public school to their family ranch was over 30 miles away, so she lived with her grandmother in Tucson during the school year and only was home during school breaks and summers. After graduation, she took a job as deputy county attorney in San Mateo, California. The county initially did not pay her for her work.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 11 ā€“ 17)

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The chain is testing the program across 17 locations in Tucson, Arizona from September 9 until November 24. That surge has created the highest differential at that California facility than at any port tracked by Container xChange over the past three years. The cost of the pass ranges from $5 to $10 a month, depending on the location.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 17 ā€“ 23)

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The Save Mart Companies plans to test Simbe Roboticsā€™ Tally shelf-scanning robot at seven California stores to help reduce out-of-stocks and ensure products are where they should be in the aisle. Itā€™s depot-to-depot, from Tucson to Casa Grande, which is 110 miles. Robots in retail stores are nothing new these days.

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7 Most Wheelchair Accessible U.S. Colleges and Universities!

Supply Chain Game Changer

University of California Berkeley. Location: Berkeley, California. Location: Tucson, Arizona. California State University Northridge. Location: Northridge, California. Located in a small city of 70,000 inhabitants, California State University offers a tremendous amount of programs to its prospective students.

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3 Signs that Reefer Rates Could Rise Soon

DAT Solutions

Domestic produce markets in California and Southern Georgia picked up steam. Nogales, near Tucson, has been the top market for reefer load availability in the past two weeks, with 10.6 Reefer freight volume was way up last week in most major markets. Atlanta continued to improve, and the lane to Dallas climbed 15¢ to $1.78/mile

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