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This Week in Logistics News (August 26 – September 1)

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Before an Amazon delivery driver ever drops a package on someone’s doorstep in metro Denver, they have likely gone through a three-day course developed locally, one that could eventually serve as a model of delivery driver training across the country. The Last Mile Delivery Academy is at 6150 N. Downing St.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 30 – June 3, 2016)

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DAT Launches Streamlined TMS for New Freight Brokers. In a blog post published today, Michael Bender, EVP and Chief Operating Officer, Walmart Global eCommerce, writes: Walmart will start with tests of grocery delivery through Uber and Lyft, which we expect to start within the next two weeks in Denver and one other market.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 3)

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Robots outnumber human workers in this autonomous truck yard north of Denver. The trucking industry moves an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s freight tonnage every year, and over the next decade, ATA projects that trucks will need to move 2.4 billion more tons of freight than they do currently.

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Next-Gen Supply Chain Management

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His specialties include supply chain solutions, transportation management, freight capacity sourcing and optimization, transportation technology, shipper and carrier relationship management, fleet and linear asset management, and network operations. Two significant benefits stem from this.