While retailers and shippers may balk at the prospect of altering the functional status quo, making concrete changes to protect workers will pay dividends in the long run.
The remaining Yellow Corp properties are expected to be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars over the coming months, said a person familiar with the process.
Amazon has delivered more than 4.8 billion packages in the U.S. this year, and predicts it will deliver around 5.9 billion parcels, up from 5.2 billion last year.
Mike Graves, vice president product management with Pierbridge, a WiseTech Global company, describes the stages of a model that enables shippers to adjust to unexpected ups and downs of demand.
The savings as well environmental benefits of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) vanish when fleet drivers fail to charge and become overly reliant on the gasoline engine.
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