19 Jun Idaho Cold Food Storage Facility Design Will Cut Loading, Unloading Time The tallest building in Burley, Idaho, contains millions of pounds of frozen french fries and other potato products. At 14 stories, it’s one of the largest cold storage facilities in the country. Read more...
19 Jun Shopify Sets Up Fulfillment Network in US, Just Like Amazon Shopify Inc. plans to spend $1 billion to set up a network of fulfillment centers in the United States to help merchants using its e-commerce platform deliver products more quickly and cheaply, much the way Amazon.com does. Read more...
19 Jun Medium-Duty Sales Rise in May, Top 22,000 Units U.S. retail sales of medium-duty trucks in May stayed the course and topped 22,000, slightly higher than a year earlier, WardsAutomotive.com reported. Read more...
19 Jun Rookie Competitor Julie Hjelle Becomes North Dakota’s First Woman Qualifier for Nationals Julie Hjelle has made history as the first woman to qualify for the National Truck Driving Championships from North Dakota, as well as the first woman from the state to win Rookie of the Year. Read more...
19 Jun US Logistics Costs Rise 11.4% in 2018, Report Says Businesses spent $1.64 trillion on transportation and logistics services in the United States in 2018, a jump of 11.4% from the prior year, as companies retooled supply chains in response to the growth in online sales and tight capacity drove up freight rates. Read more...
19 Jun Perspective: The Movement of Goods Can Be Eased by Technology Companies must consider tools that can improve control over the distribution process and maximize efforts that contribute to the bottom line, says Brian Hodgson of Descartes Systems Group. Read more...
19 Jun GM Plots Temp-Worker Push With Union Still Seething Over Doomed Plants General Motors Co. wants to hire more temporary workers at U.S. plants and trim its health care costs, said people familiar with the automaker’s thinking. Its union — still steaming over the carmaker’s plans to close four U.S. factories — has little interest in obliging. Read more...
19 Jun UPS Seeks FMCSA Exemption From 2020 Driving Instructor Requirements UPS Inc. has requested an exemption from a federal regulatory requirement that its driver training instructors have two years’ minimum experience as trainers and have held a commercial driver license for at least two years, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced June 19. Read more...
19 Jun Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman Gives Oxford University $189 Million for AI Studies LONDON — American billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of the private equity firm Blackstone, has given Oxford University $188.6 million for a new institute that will study the ethical implications of artificial intelligence and computing technologies. Read more...
19 Jun Walmart Targets Automated ‘Middle-Mile’ Delivery to Cut Shipping Costs Walmart Inc. came to dominate retailing through its mastery of logistics. But even the world’s biggest store doesn’t make money selling its wares online in the United States, largely due to runaway shipping costs. So the retailer is turning to robots. Read more...