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Severe weather causes freight rates to slip

DAT Solutions

Near Amarillo, TX, high winds tore across the highway at 80 miles per hour, toppling 40 tractor-trailers, according to news reports. Out west, Sacramento to Salt Lake City picked up, possibly replacing the Denver to Salt Lake City lane. Lanes with big price increases included: Sacramento to Salt Lake City skyrocketed 40¢ to $2.35/mi.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 11-15, 2017)

Talking Logistics

California looks at dumping gas tax for per-mile fee as cars use less fuel (Sacramento Bee). As reported by the Wall Street Journal : Shipt, like rival Instacart, uses thousands of contractors to buy products at retail stores and deliver them to customers. and Costco Wholesale Corp.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Robinson Reports Fourth Quarter Results. Reports 2012 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results. Cass Freight Index Report – January 2013. Robinson and Con-way both reported Q4 and full-year 2012 results this week. Con-way : For the full-year 2012, Con-way reported net income of $104.5 Con-way Inc. million, up 18.2

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Customer-Obsessed Businesses are Upping Their Last-Mile Game

Logistics Viewpoints

A report published by IBM states that the pandemic has powered the shift away from stores to online shopping by close to five years. Last year, Raley’s converted its closed store in Sacramento, California to a dark store — an e-commerce fulfillment center to meet the spiraling pick and on-demand deliveries. Data from the U.S.

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Amazon Leasing Air Cargo Space, Delivering by Drone

Multichannel Merchant

Amazon, facing a continued slowdown in its ecommerce business and under pressure to boost flagging sales, is looking to sell excess capacity on its commercial cargo jetliners used to move goods among its network of warehouses here and in Europe, Bloomberg reports. ” According to a March 2022 report from McKinsey & Co.,

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Tens of Thousands of New Jobs, and One Worry: Robots

BlueYonder

This year alone, Amazon announced new fulfillment centers in Eastvale, Redlands, Fresno and most recently Sacramento, where the Seattle company said it would hire 1,500 workers. Walmart is eliminating “a few dozen” corporate positions , mostly in merchandising and replenishment, according to a Talk Business and Politics report. “As

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Tens of Thousands of New Jobs, and One Worry: Robots

BlueYonder

This year alone, Amazon announced new fulfillment centers in Eastvale, Redlands, Fresno and most recently Sacramento, where the Seattle company said it would hire 1,500 workers. Walmart is eliminating “a few dozen” corporate positions , mostly in merchandising and replenishment, according to a Talk Business and Politics report. “As