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Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
Showing 992 posts in Warehouse and Logistics Newsletter.
The National Retail Federation expects retail sales in November and December, excluding autos, gas and restaurant sales, to increase a solid 3.6% to $655.8 billion. NRF notes that this would be higher than last year and significantly higher than the 10-year…
Recruiting and retaining truck drivers isn’t an impossible task – just make sure you do it the right way, a panel of industry professionals told attendees at the Intermodal Association of North America’s 2016 Intermodal Expo in Houston. The single biggest…
Richard Griffin, General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, opened a new front in the war against independent contractors by directing his regional directors to assert that contractor status is by its very existence an unfair labor practice. Last…
Total spending for Halloween this year is expected to reach $8.4 billion, an all-time high, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics. U.S. consumers are expected to spend an average of $82.93, up…
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports should be at near-peak levels this month even as retailers work to cope with the Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker released by the National Retail…
According to the latest survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors by the Smith Leonard accounting firm, new orders in June were 5% higher than they were in June 2015. June 2015 new orders were 10% higher than June 2014. But the results…
Most state workplace safety programs don’t measure up and need additional taxpayer dollars to make sure they do, according to federal OSHA. In its fiscal year 2015 survey of 21 state work safety programs the agency found most did not meet performance goals,…
Top transportation industry analysts expect that the economy will continue in a weak recovery until the end of next year, when it will once more stumble into a recession. Those are some of the predictions were made during the 2016 Intermodal Expo, an annual…
Two candidates for running for Teamsters national office debated recently at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, presenting calm, well-reasoned descriptions of their differing positions on the issues of concern to union members. Nah, not really. What…
We’ve heard of hot cargo before, but ACWI-member Prism Team Services (A.K.A. Prism Logistics) found itself in a situation where that turns out to be literally true for one of its customers. Prism provides warehouse logistics, order fulfillment and product…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced a new safety-focused campaign called “Our Roads, Our Responsibility” designed to raise public awareness about how to operate safely around large trucks and buses. “Trucks and buses move people and…
Major highway grant programs designed to help move freight are not doing what was intended when Congress passed them, according to a freight industry advocacy group. The Coalition for America’s Gateways and Trade Corridors says the Tiger and Fastlane highway…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
Showing 992 posts in Warehouse and Logistics Newsletter.
The National Retail Federation expects retail sales in November and December, excluding autos, gas and restaurant sales, to increase a solid 3.6% to $655.8 billion. NRF notes that this would be higher than last year and significantly higher than the 10-year…
Recruiting and retaining truck drivers isn’t an impossible task – just make sure you do it the right way, a panel of industry professionals told attendees at the Intermodal Association of North America’s 2016 Intermodal Expo in Houston. The single biggest…
Richard Griffin, General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, opened a new front in the war against independent contractors by directing his regional directors to assert that contractor status is by its very existence an unfair labor practice. Last…
Total spending for Halloween this year is expected to reach $8.4 billion, an all-time high, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics. U.S. consumers are expected to spend an average of $82.93, up…
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports should be at near-peak levels this month even as retailers work to cope with the Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker released by the National Retail…
According to the latest survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors by the Smith Leonard accounting firm, new orders in June were 5% higher than they were in June 2015. June 2015 new orders were 10% higher than June 2014. But the results…
Most state workplace safety programs don’t measure up and need additional taxpayer dollars to make sure they do, according to federal OSHA. In its fiscal year 2015 survey of 21 state work safety programs the agency found most did not meet performance goals,…
Top transportation industry analysts expect that the economy will continue in a weak recovery until the end of next year, when it will once more stumble into a recession. Those are some of the predictions were made during the 2016 Intermodal Expo, an annual…
Two candidates for running for Teamsters national office debated recently at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, presenting calm, well-reasoned descriptions of their differing positions on the issues of concern to union members. Nah, not really. What…
We’ve heard of hot cargo before, but ACWI-member Prism Team Services (A.K.A. Prism Logistics) found itself in a situation where that turns out to be literally true for one of its customers. Prism provides warehouse logistics, order fulfillment and product…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced a new safety-focused campaign called “Our Roads, Our Responsibility” designed to raise public awareness about how to operate safely around large trucks and buses. “Trucks and buses move people and…
Major highway grant programs designed to help move freight are not doing what was intended when Congress passed them, according to a freight industry advocacy group. The Coalition for America’s Gateways and Trade Corridors says the Tiger and Fastlane highway…