Zipline Logistics

JULY 28, 2020

Menards services 12 distribution centers throughout its territory with facilities in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Missouri, and South Dakota. Booking freight without a deliberate plan can undercut your relationship with the retailer.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2020

It was a good year for shippers as freight rates plummeted for the majority of 2019, substantially backing off the historic highs the industry witnessed in 2018. An overall economic sluggishness hit freight particularly hard in 2019 leading to what many have labeled as a “ freight recession.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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. The restaurant features what the company calls an Order Ahead Lane, which serves mobile-order customers their food through a conveyor system.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2023

I have yet to jump on the metaverse bandwagon, but I see more and more companies offering “virtual experiences” to the masses. And now, more companies are trying to use the metaverse to make interactions as lifelike as possible. This will certainly be an interesting trend to watch. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The company went with the lowest bidder and switched logistics service providers in the UK from food delivery specialists Bidvest Logistics to DHL. Just when you though the Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) mandate was a settled matter, legislators in South Dakota, Missouri, Tennessee and Idaho are still fighting the battle.

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