Category Archives: Trucking

How to cash in on ELDs

Posted on January 29, 2018 by | Leave a comment

I saw this thanks to screenshot-www.supplychaindive.com 2018-01-29 09-45-53-153. It makes the point that use of a good ELD in trucks forces everyone– the firm, the trucker, support staff, and customers to focus on hitting the marks for serving the truck supply chain.  This should make customer service improve all around, but also will save considerable money in administrative costs if properly integrated with other systems to make visualization easy. The article below identifies some of the extended cost savings and service improvements that can be made.

screenshot-www.fleetowner.com 2018-01-29 09-44-07-970via How to cash in on ELDs

Leave a comment

Posted in Logistics, Supply Chains, Trucking

Tagged , , , ,

Stifel Top 10 “Game Changers” in Logistics

Posted on January 10, 2018 by | Leave a comment

This is the first  of two articles on the investment firm Stifel’s opinion of the top game changers in Logistics.  It’s a summary of the report Stifel recently issued.

One of their interesting views is that for all the talk of automation coming, actually in logistics people are seeing shortages of blue collar workers to do the jobs that are needed now. the automation isn’t coming fast enough to help firms with a problem getting labor. Their argument points to autonomous trucks and the world wide driver shortage.  Autonomous trucks are coming, but nowhere near fast enough to replace the dozens of folks leaving truck driving now.   It won’t bail us out.

Another point they make is that the e-commerce strategy of placing inventory further forward in the supply chain to be closer to customers may come up against a real shortage of places to put it, particularly in urbanized areas.  This makes Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods look very good indeed as a strategy.

Supply Chain Digest Logo  via Supply Chain News: Stifel Releases Its Top 10 “Game Changers” in the Logistics and Transportation Arena

Leave a comment

Posted in Investing, Labor Economics, Logistics, Strategy, Supply Chains, Trucking

Tagged , , , , ,

CBP’s automated in-bond filings shift into gear

Posted on November 13, 2017 by | Leave a comment

Interesting piece about automated customs bond filings by truckers.  It is starting to be a reality, but there are still issues like airports not accepting them, and adoption issues– resistance from truckers to using the online forms.

Later in the piece it points out that truckers must pay a fee for each transaction on the system.  For larger companies that isn’t maybe a big deal, but for independent truckers it’s one more nail in the coffin.

American Shipper

via CBP’s automated in-bond filings shift into gear

Leave a comment

Posted in Advanced Computing, Logistics, Supply Chains, Trucking

Tagged , , , , , ,