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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Will Monday Morning, July 1, be Y2K All Over Again?

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The fear mongering that has gone on about the hours of service (HOS) changes taking effect on Monday remind me a lot of the Y2K fear.  Fo...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

What Can Logisticians Learn from Emergency Room Doctors - The idea of "Thin Slicing"

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I have read a lot about " control towers " and " big data " lately as I am sure many of you have.  This has led me to as...
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Monday, June 24, 2013

More on Crude By Rail

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As I said on my last post I would come back to this topic as it truly has become the most interesting transportation topic to come up in a w...
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Act Expo 2013

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I will be using twitter a lot more than the blogging site as I will be attending the ACT EXPO 2013 this week. Please follow me at: my logis...
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Awakening the Sleeping Giant - Crude by Rail

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I am short on time as I am heading to the Alternative Fuels Conference ( ACT 2013 ).  I wanted to give the light of day to this article on ...
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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Why Benchmarking In Its Current State for Transportation is Dangerous

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I hear a lot about benchmarking in my travels and it makes me think about this idea, why it is used and what it really is.  What also fascin...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Applying My One Big Thing in 3PL Management to The "Capacity Crisis"

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Yesterday I blogged about the " One Big thing " for managing your 3PLs.  This was essentially ensuring the incentives and goals of...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

When Selecting a 3PL Ensure Your Goals and Incentives are Aligned

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As I travel and speak to industry leaders I am always asked about strategies for shippers to manage their 3PL relationships.  There are many...
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The Business of Supplying The Transportation Business - Tires and Trucks

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The Wall Street Journal reported on two major industry suppliers today - Navistar and Michelin .  For Navistar, the story continues to be b...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Macroeconomic Monday® - A tale of Two Economies

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There are two economies developing and it is very important you do not confuse the two.  The first economy is the financial  economy.  This ...
Friday, June 7, 2013

More Signs of a Financial Economy; Not a Production Economy

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On June 3 the Institute for Supply Management issued their May ISM index and it came in at 49.  Unfortunately, this means the manufacturing...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

CASS Freight Index for May - Volumes and Expenditures Roughly Steady

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The May Cass Freight Index is out and it is clear that rates are staying flat and volumes are a bit behind where they were last year.  Despi...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Amazon Fresh - Amazon Groceries to a Door Near You

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A fascinating discovery occurred the other day on my way to Chicago from Michigan.  As I was driving down I-94 I saw a delivery truck coming...
Monday, June 3, 2013

Crude By Rail is The New Hot Thing

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Many have always said crude by rail was just a "stop gap" until new pipelines are built out to support the new finds of oil all ov...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

The Boom Box Replaced By The iPod

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The anchoring continues by many transportation executives where they publish all sorts of comments that say "if" this happens and...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Vacation Got the Best of Me - Maersk Looks into A Dim Future for Containers

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Ok, just for my regular readers, I am back.  Took a bit of a vacation and toured around Europe for a while.  Sorry for the lack of posts and...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Reshoring - New Balance - Who Kept Significant MFG in US - Has Thoughts

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I just listened to a fascinating Podcast from Bloomberg with President and CEO of New Balance Shoes, Robert DeMartini.   He maintains a sign...
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Sustainability is Good Business - Global Companies Sign on To A Climate Declaration

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Be careful if you think demanding action for climate change is just the purview of the crazies; many Fortune 100 companies are taking this v...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

The Incredible Shrinking Freight

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PCs replace mini and mainframes,  Laptops replace desktops, tablets replace laptops, smartphones replace tablets...  and so the saga goes.  ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Is The Failure of Ron Johnson at J.C. Penny a Sign Anchoring Wins?

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I posted an article about Anchoring a while ago .  For a refresher, anchoring is all about the seller trying to establish a starting price f...