📺 Television sets can be great gifts for truckers.
Oftentimes, tv can be a great addition to a cab for a truck driver turning in for the night. Additionally, television sets can serve as a wide-screen monitor for security cameras outside the truck, protecting the driver while asleep or resting.
A video showing heavy Thanksgiving travel traffic on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles has gone viral on social media, with people expressing both amazement and frustration at the congestion.
Walmart's stock reached an all-time high, hitting $166.30, as investors anticipate the retail giant to outperform its competitors during the holiday season due to its reputation for offering value.
UPS is gearing up for the holiday season by planning to hire more than 100,000 workers, a number consistent with its hiring levels over the past three years.
As the fall season approaches, retailers are gearing up for the peak season.
Amazon.com Inc. is planning to hire 250,000 logistics workers for the upcoming holiday season.
The U.S. Postal Service has announced that it will not impose peak season surcharges during the upcoming holiday season.
Following the resolution of the contract dispute at West Coast ports, BNSF Railway Co. (BNSF) has announced its readiness to handle an anticipated surge in intermodal volumes once freight levels in the region return to normal.
According to the CNBC Supply Chain Survey, retailers are anticipating a challenging holiday spending season, despite a significant drop in inflation.
Freight forwarders remain hopeful for a container demand recovery this year, according to a survey by Container xChange.
With so much loss in package volume this year, FedEx is strategizing to maximize its efforts and make as much money as possible from every single delivery.
With projections to make any delivery driver gulp, the delivery giant UPS is expecting that it will handle up to 70 million packages in retail returns after the holiday season rush - and that’s just their company, alone.
In the holiday weekend airline crisis of the century, Southwest Airlines has canceled 70% of its schedule by Monday and warned that it would likely be extremely limited to about a third for the remainder of the week.
According to CargoNet, a total loss value of $6,033.572 has already been recorded between August 1st and December 14th of 2022.
Peak season is typically a time of stress and profit for the trucking industry.
In a 2022 shopping survey conducted by Supply Chain Brain of 3,138 U.S. adults, 50% said that they did not begin holiday shopping until November.
The massive retailer often is the victim of bad press, but it seems that Amazon would only be hurt by having an unhappy workforce during the busiest time of year - the holidays.
Oftentimes, tv can be a great addition to a cab for a truck driver turning in for the night.
This is a new record, according to the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics.
Warehouses everywhere are being pushed to the brink this holiday season as consumers tire of inaccurate orders and shipping delays.
On a Kenworth T680 Next Gen, Hardy Brothers Trucking carried the 78-ft. tall red spruce called "Ruby” from the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina to the Capitol building.
After previous years provided to be a disaster, the United States Postal Service is more equipped to handle the 2022 peak season rush than years before.
Avery Dennison, a Fortune 500 materials science and digital identification solutions company, published data in a global report in early November.
In the Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates, there has been a steady downhill trajectory since May, when the record amount sat at 2.4 million TEUs.
Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson unveiled the launch of the companies’ partnership on a Q4 earnings call last week, heralding the pilot program as an extremely convent process meant to streamline customer returns and better understand customer preferences on an internal business level.
The National Retail Federation (NRF) is now forecasting strong holiday sales despite sky-high interest rates and growing inflation - which is confounding to some.
During the early days of the Covid-19 shutdowns, Americans were eager to source up their homes and backyards with new furnishes.
Shortages of items from toilet paper to Play Station game consoles checkered the past two years, often causing a line of hiccups right around peak season - historically, the busiest time for the supply chain.
Typically, peak season is an extremely busy time for trucking companies… but also very profitable.
While many of the retailer’s main competitors deal with a near-crippling inventory glut, Macy’s has taken a different approach to its inventory management strategy.
A recent Fox News poll revealed that more than 75% of Americans are worried about the state of the economy.