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Spot Volumes Steady; Are Rates Ready to Spring?

After a chilly start to 2019, spot truckload volumes and rates look like they’re starting to thaw.

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Delivery Costs Eat Away at McDonald's Profits

McDonald's Corp.

While delivery is critical for future growth, franchisees warn it will drown our existing sales eventually.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port of Oakland Places Order for Giant Cranes

Port of Oakland

Port of Oakland is planning to install three 300-foot-tall gantry cranes to prepare for a new generation of mega-container vessels.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Port Tampa Bay Welcomes New CMA CGM Container Service

CMA CGM Group will begin serving port Tampa Bay in late May 2019.

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Aldi Utilizes Abandoned Retail Stores for Cold Storage

Aldi is looking into vacant retail spaces to transform them into new cold-storage warehouses.

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Budweiser Teams Up with SEWIO to Cut Down Maintenance Costs

Budweiser Budvar replaced RFID-powered forklift tracking with SEWIO RTLS to achieve 99 percent of systems uptime and cut down maintenance costs.

Sewio Rtls Anchor Placements At Budvar

What Can Fleet Managers Expect in 2019?

Industry experts weigh in on what to watch and how it will impact the food supply chain, especially the refrigerated transportation sector.

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RoadRunnerApp.com Enters Delivery Market

Roadrunner Transportation Systems

RoadRunnerApp.com is planning to enter the mobile on-demand delivery market, and is currently in the software development stage.

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Spot Rates Continue Their Seasonal Slide

DAT Freight & Analytics

Spot truckload rates dipped again during the week ending Feb. 9 despite higher freight volumes than at this time in each of the past three years.

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Automation Alleviates Labor Pain

The pressure is on warehouse operators to adopt automation not only for greater efficiencies but to simply survive in the market.

As package types evolve, robotics provides the flexibility to adjust to future package varieties.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

The Rise of Smart Containers

The use of connected shipping containers is growing as the industry continues to fill the visibility gap in the global supply chain.

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Are Autonomous Vehicles the Next Wave of Last-Mile Technology?

Fully driverless trucks are still a way down the road, but they might solve the driver shortage, save money, improve efficiency and help the environment.

Starting in early 2019, DoorDash and General Motors’ Cruise Automation will test the first food deliveries using autonomous vehicles in San Francisco.

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