Brookings has a great article about new research on economic mobility (preferably upward) and friends. If people tend to be willing to make friends across economic classes it’s a big boost to chances of economic mobility.
One great thing is the links to interactive maps showing what drives social capital. You can see them here.
Richard V. Reeves and Coura Fall Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Seven key takeaways from Chetty’s new research on friendship and economic mobility
Here we see a day in the life of a package delivery driver for Veho, which seems to be an enlightened last-mile delivery company that is actively trying to make work friendlier to the driver. The system they have developed tries to take into account driver needs as well as those of the customer and the shipper.
One of the major factors involved in keeping a workforce today is giving workers input and making the workplace friendly for them.
Veho seems to be using that principle to drive their business. Let’s hope it is successful for them.
One downside of this approach is the need for a depot where the packages are brought before the routing is done. That’s a capital expense that not all services will want to implement. It also slows up expansion into new markets, since the warehouse sites must be found and built out. However, the depot is key to the optimization for all the involved parties, including the driver.
Brian Straight Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Gig driver for a day. Here’s what we learned making deliveries for Veho | Modern Shipper
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Tagged gig economy, innovation, labor relations, last mile, Logistics, package delivery, supply chains, transportation
Port Authority of NY and NJ have announced a new container fee payable by ocean carriers. The fee will be levied when the outbound containers don’t exceed inbound containers by 110% in the same period. The port authority also plans to find additional space to store containers near the port, and already has identified 12 acres on the port.
It seems that these two measures are what works to reduce congestion. The same two kinds of measures were invoked at the Port of LA and Port of Long Beach to get ocean lines to start moving empties out. In California, though, the container fees were just threatened; they never were begun. that alone was enough for ocean carriers to start moving containers out.
Perhaps we have found a credible set of options to get container carriers to move those boxes.
Kim BiggarAugust 3, 2022
Port Authority of NY and NJ announces new container imbalance fee to minimise congestion due to excess empty containers – Splash247
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