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Farelanes: Real Time Lane Pricing for Everyone with Neal Huffman

The Logistics of Logistics

Neal has over 40 years in software development, innovation, and product management rollouts spread across the telecommunications and enterprise software industries. He played a role in the first Fiber to the Home technology deployed in Loudon County, Virginia in 1999.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain shortages have caused prices to rise globally on just about every consumer good imaginable. Add in soaring air freight costs, and the fruit will not only be hard to find, but incredibly expensive. Descartes acquires XPS Technologies. And mangoes are no exception. That’s a tough break for the industry.

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Walmart Looks to Expand Drone Deliveries to Five Cities

Supply Chain Brain

As part of its partnership with drone company Wing, the retail giant intends to bring drone deliveries to Houston, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta and Charlotte by June of 2026, and will expand existing services in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. This is real drone delivery at scale,” said Wing CEO Adam Woodworth.

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Texas: It Ain’t Bragging, If It’s True with Jason Giulietti

The Logistics of Logistics

Texas is booming and in this podcast, Jason Giulietti explains why so many supply chain, logistics, and freight tech companies are expanding in the Lone Star State. The Texas Triangle , which is the area between Dallas / Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio already has more people that 46 states and it is growing fast.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

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. New research suggests that a misunderstanding of what was happening with global supply chains might be part of why.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 7-11, 2018)

Talking Logistics

My wife often jokes that she is the VP of Supply Chain and Logistics in our family. Whether it’s preventing out-of-stocks of critical household items or making sure the kids are delivered on time in full to wherever they need to be, she keeps our supply chain running as efficiently as possible — while doing her day job too!

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Trucking Stocks Tumble on Downgrade, Pricing Outlook (WSJ- sub. Descartes Showcases Logistics Technology Platform Innovations at Global User and Partner Conference. MercuryGate Launches Global, Omni-modal Freight Procurement Solution.