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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

Logistics Viewpoints

Currently, most driverless opportunities are limited to secure private zones or closed environments, such as warehouses, campus environments or last mile runs from depot to front door. The Curious Case of the Headless Driver. Make no mistake, driverless vehicles are here to stay, driver shortage or not. To learn more, visit [link].

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

At the conference, I joined a roundtable led by Nikos Papaioannou, who manages returns of Amazon’s house-brand electronic devices, including Kindles, Echos and Blink home-security systems. In fact, America’s true refund pioneer was born a century before Hsieh, on a farm in Oklahoma. That rarely happens. It’s minimal,” he said. “If

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This Week in Logistics News (March 3-7, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Con-way Freight Introduces Drive Safe Systems™. FedEx Freight to Increase Shipping Rates. Supreme Court agrees to hear Amazon workers’ security check case. Meanwhile, Con-way Freight announced the full deployment of Drive Safe Systems™, a suite of advanced on-board “monitor, sense and alert” technologies.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 17-21, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Postmates Secures $300M In Venture Funding Led By Tiger Global Management And Announces Record-Breaking Year Of Growth. Digital Freight Startup Convoy Raises $185 Million, Surpasses $1 Billion in Value (WSJ – sub. million round, backing Freightos’ global freight platform. Singapore Exchange leads US$44.4