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Aurora Begins Commercial Driverless Trucking in Texas, Ushering in a New Era of Freight

Logistics Viewpoints

Aurora plans to expand its driverless service to El Paso, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona by the end of 2025. These intensify every year, making the value proposition of autonomy a solution that will offer safe, reliable capacity without an impact to jobs highly attractive to the trucking industry. To learn more, visit aurora.tech.

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Emerge Levels Up with Michael Leto

The Logistics of Logistics

and is transforming the $800 billion transportation and logistics industry with its digital freight marketplace platform. and is transforming the $800 billion transportation and logistics industry with its digital freight marketplace platform. Michael Leto is Co-CEO at Emerge , a company that is reinventing freight procurement (RFP).

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Retailers turn toward private fleets

Cathy Roberson

Supply chains have encountered delivery delays, capacity constraints, and volatile rates since the COVID pandemic began in 2020. The old notion that you can buy the capacity as we need it—and turn the tap on or off—is a thing of the past." The shipper community has a collective sense that control has been slipping away.

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How the Bakken Oil Boom Impacts U.S. Supply Chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

The oil and gas industry impacts freight transportation in four significant areas: Diesel Prices. Rail Capacity. My brother-in-law lives within a half a mile of the main freight rail track in the Twin Cities. With around 30,000 gallons of capacity, each car equates to roughly 700 barrels of oil.

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Warehousing News Roundup: March 25, 2019

Stord

Ulta is closing one of its existing distribution centers (in Phoenix) later this month, shifting product to other locations. This rush of shipments filled storage locations beyond capacity, forcing many companies to store product on chassis throughout Southern California.

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Wanted: Supply Chain Architects!

Supply Chain Shaman

This analysis is ad-hoc is usually stimulated by the launch of a new product or a shift in capacity. This work is typically periodic to accompany a freight bid or an end-to-end project. The focus is where are the right locations for factories and distribution centers? The focus is on the physical flows of supply chain.

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

As the logistics industry reexamines capacity challenges ahead of the 2022 holiday shipping season, SupplyChainDive gathered a group of transportation experts to discuss how shippers should prepare for a potentially tough peak season. port capacity is close to maxing out, potentially forcing ports to invest in costly construction projects.