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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Wing and Zipline are drone delivery providers and will allow Walmart to cover 75 percent of the Dallas-Fort Worth population as stores in 30 towns and municipalities will now offer drone delivery service. DHL Group does not operate ships but it uses them to transport containers.

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The Kodiak Story with Don Burnette

The Logistics of Logistics

Don is the Co-Founder & CEO of Kodiak Robotics , a company that is building the trucking industry’s most advanced self-driving technology. After over five years at Google, Don left the company to co-found Otto, the first self-driving truck startup, which was acquired by Uber. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2017

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Conferences are a great example of peer-to-peer learning in action, but with so many supply chain and logistics conferences available, how do you decide which ones to attend?

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Walmart First to Deliver Driverless Middle Mile

Multichannel Merchant

Through our work with Gatik, we’ve identified that autonomous box trucks offer an efficient, safe and sustainable solution for transporting goods on repeatable routes between our stores,” said Tom Ward, senior vice president of last mile at Walmart U.S. We’re thrilled to enable Walmart’s customers to reap the benefits.”.

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Ryder Acquires Whiplash, Expands Network

Multichannel Merchant

Steve Sensing, president of global supply chain solutions for Ryder, said the company had co-bot capabilities in place at some of its facilities through a partnership with Locus Robotics, but the Whiplash acquisition “drastically increases it.”. Before both acquisitions, Ryder had 63 million square feet of space in its supply chain network.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

At the beginning of the year, the global chip shortage had become so dire that large industrial companies were taking scarce chips out of washing machines to plug them into industrial modules. And now on to this week’s logistics news: McDonald’s is testing a new drive-thru concept. Walgreens takes its delivery service round the clock.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Logistics hiring slowed in May amid shifts in retail sector. As a result, logistics hiring in May has slowed down. Trucking companies added 13,300 jobs last month and have boosted employment by more than 70,000 jobs over the past year. That’s a tough break for the industry.