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Earlier this month FedEx Freight made waves when it announced that it would be closing more than two dozen of its freight locations Shared via an e mailed statement the announcement has generated headlines across the country not to mention considerable noise within the LTL community But how big really is this news Is it honestly hellip
When Charles Dickens penned his famous line It was the best of times it was the worst of times he might have been talking about the past few years for import export supply chains On the one hand we ve faced a barrage of health environmental and labor contingencies that have challenged even the best run of businesses hellip
As we write this the NCAA basketball tournament also known as March Madness is about to begin So is the country s annual obsession with building brackets We can t tell you how to fill out a perfect bracket although we do have a few solid theories about who s going to be in this year s Final Four But we hellip
Knock knock Here s your opportunity to find out how much you really know about parcel carriers GRIs and how they re impacting your overall transportation spend Spoiler alert They re no joke What does GRI stand for A Gordon Ramsey International B General Rate Increase C Global Reporting Initiative D All of the above Answer D Depending hellip
Late last month we wrote a Viewpoint about the possibility of a rail strike only to have it rendered moot before we could get it out to you At first we thought about killing the story altogether After all what s less newsworthy than a major supply chain disruption that didn t wind up happening But then hellip
Do you need glasses to read articles like this If so you re not alone Approximately 194 1 million people in the United States rely on some form of visual assistance like bifocals readers or contact lenses In fact for a lot of us these devices spell the difference between being able to merely see and being hellip
There are a lot of great scenes in A Christmas Story But one of our favorites is when Ralphie envisions getting a perfect grade for his holiday essay only to wind up with something much more disappointing Take away the quaint setting and the burning desire for a Red Ryder BB Gun and hellip
Less than a year ago members of the media were hailing the logistics industry as a vital cog in the massive cooperative effort required to get a COVID 19 vaccine rapidly distributed to most of the world nbsp Our industry is still making COVID 19 headlines today but for a different reason In a nutshell many of hellip
Fall football season may have just kicked off However it s already starting to feel a lot like Christmas for many eTailers According to research from Creditcards com 27 of consumers have already started their holiday shopping and 51 will have done so before Halloween nbsp But you probably knew that already didn t you nbsp After all you ve probably hellip
