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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

Logistics Viewpoints

To demonstrate, one California autonomous vehicle company, TuSimple, tested the efficacy of long-haul driverless vehicles in a recent trek from Nogales, Arizona to Oklahoma City, shaving 10 hours (42%) off of what would otherwise be a 24-hour trip. Keep Your Eyes on the Road.

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Quality Improvement in Manufacturing: Relief for Operations Manager

ThroughPut

Nothing was really in our control, and we had to make it work with existing teams & existing resources in our existing situations (during invasions, offshore on a ship, knee-deep in Oklahoma mud & the usual). The only real metric that ticks for an Entrepreneur is burn rate. Entrepreneurship was and is no different.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

Nothing was really in our control, and we had to make it work with existing teams & existing resources in our existing situations (during invasions, offshore on a ship, knee-deep in Oklahoma mud & the usual). The only real metric that ticks for an Entrepreneur is burn rate. Entrepreneurship was and is no different.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

Nothing was really in our control, and we had to make it work with existing teams & existing resources in our existing situations (during invasions, offshore on a ship, knee-deep in Oklahoma mud & the usual). The only real metric that ticks for an Entrepreneur is burn rate. Entrepreneurship was and is no different.

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How to Track Driver Hours Without Drowning in ELD Reports

Freight Waves

A three-truck fleet in Oklahoma switched to a simpler ELD and cut their log review time from 2 hours to 20 minutes a day. Zero In on Metrics That Keep You Legal ELD reports spit out enough data to fill a book, but you don’t need it all. Avoid systems that cost $100 per truck or push features you’ll never touch.

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Earlier TQL victory on broker liability overturned by Sixth Circuit; SCOTUS next?

Freight Waves

” The crash occurred on interstate 40 in Oklahoma. Brokers) are required to conform to that standard in their hiring practices, for example, by dedicating time and resources to evaluating the safety metrics of prospective motor carriers.” But Khaira did not, plowed into Greta Cox’ vehicle, and she was killed.

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Rules and Regulations for Cargo Moving

American Global Logistics

Percent ' Foot (Feet) " Inch(es) & And $. 027062 NAMING LOCAL AND THROUGH COMMODTIY RATES AND CHARGES AND GOVERNING RULES AND REGULATIONS APPLYING THERETO BETWEEN PORTS AND POINTS IN THE U.S.A.

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