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Sears – Achieving Home Delivery Excellence

Talking Logistics

Home delivery is a hot segment of omni-channel retailing and one of the best customer presentations at last year’s Descartes Evolution 2015 conference was from Sears. Every day our last orders came in at 3:30 pm and the team had to quickly develop the routing solution by 6:00 pm. It was a one-time shot of getting the routes right.”

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ArcBest touts results from EV semi pilot

Freight Waves

The three-week test was conducted through its less-than-truckload subsidiary, ABF Freight, using a Tesla ( NASDAQ: TSLA ) semi on routes between ABF terminals in Reno, Nevada, and Sacramento, California. The truck averaged 321 miles per day (4,494 miles in total) with a 1.55

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Another broker liability case knocks at Supreme Court door, this one involving C.H. Robinson

Freight Waves

Robinson had hired to move a load from Sacramento to Salt Lake City for Costco. Only when a plaintiff can establish that the broker’s conduct implicated the state’s safety regulatory authority will a claim survive preemption per the present ruling.” The amicus brief and the Cox decision were published within a day of each other. “The

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Freight Brokerage 'Booking Structures': Opportunities to Streamline Your Operations

Parade

In California, for example, they are focused on three main subregions; San Francisco/Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Sacramento. That means whenever a load opportunity presents itself, carrier sales reps can all attempt to match that load with one of their carriers. Typically, this means better carrier utilization and lower carrier churn.

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Freight Brokerage 'Booking Structures': Opportunities to Streamline Your Operations

Parade

In California, for example, they are focused on three main subregions; San Francisco/Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Sacramento. That means whenever a load opportunity presents itself, carrier sales reps can all attempt to match that load with one of their carriers. Typically, this means better carrier utilization and lower carrier churn.

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5G and the Future of Smart Cities

Enterra Insights

Kalyan Parbat explains, “5G or ‘fifth-generation’ is a fast, wireless broadband technology that will transcend smartphones and connect anything from cars, machines and home appliances at speeds 50-to-100 times faster than present 4G networks. Dallas; Denver; Houston; Miami; Sacramento, Calif.; Bernardsville, N.J.; Brockton, Mass.;