I wanted to let people know that we are experiencing the worst Refrigerated Truck shortage in California in many years and it has caused a significant increase in rates for truckload shipments. The reasons for this are multiple but the …
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June 23, 2011 | Tags: california, reefer, truck capacity, truck shortage, truckload | Category: General
With the down turn of the economy there has been a surplus of available employees but there is a common theme, and that is the lack of work ethic. It’s common to hear employers complain about how hard it is …
June 9, 2011 | Tags: work ethic | Category: General
In college I learned about the Just-in-Time supply chain model in regards to Toyota and how it was far superior to the massive build up of inventory that was standard in the early days of Ford. After the crisis in …
May 26, 2011 | Tags: just in time | Category: General
In the May 2, 2011 issue of Transport Topics newspaper there is an interesting article “Truck Order Backlog Grows; OEMs Impose New Surcharges” by Frederick Kiel and it talks about how there is the largest backlog of orders for new …
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As tight as capacity has been over the last 60 days, it will grow even tighter over the next six months with the up turn in the economy and the normal seasonal surge of freight movement. Simply put, there is …
Slashdot reports of a interesting article at Singularity Hub about how 10,000 shipping containers are lost at sea each year; “Right now, as you read this, there are five or six million shipping containers on enormous cargo ships sailing across …
May 1, 2011 | | Category: General
