Although the cost of license fees, user fees, and tolls is considerable, these expenses are directly related to the number of over-the-road units and miles operated. The variable cost per mile for motor carriers is high because a separate power unit and drive are required for each trailer ...
“Who else would think of putting something going into an obscure port in Washington, and then trucking it down to L.A.? Most people are thinking, well, just bring the ship into L.A. But then you’re experiencing those two-week and three-weeks delay. So Amazon’s really taken advantag...
The company's latest offering is a small vessel that operates on the surface or underwater. Paired with additional units, therobots can be controlled in a swarm by a single operator as if they were an individual entity,enabling them to capture useful data across wide swaths of water efficient...
The snake trail starts from the eastern entrance of Masada and ascends 1.7 miles and 1,148 feet in elevation to the fortress located at the top of the mountain. My wife and I walked up that trail and arrived as the sun rose in the East over the Dead Sea. The top of this high plate...
What are the uses of GPS? GPS is a powerful and dependable tool for businesses and organizations in many different industries. Surveyors, scientists, pilots, boat captains, first responders, and workers in mining and agriculture, are just some of the people who use GPS on a daily basis for ...
Are Self-Driving Cars Safe?Experts believe self-driving cars can achieve higher levels of safety than human driven vehicles. In fact, when we analyze and compare accident data of self-driving cars versus traditional cars and adjust it to “Crash rate per million miles driven,” self-driving ...
airplanes, trucks, trains, vans, cars, bicycles and, increasingly, aerial drones can be part of getting materials and goods from their origin into the hands of the consumer. More miles and more modes of transport don’t just elongate timelines, it introduces challenges and bottlenecks, as well...
Are ELD’s good or bad for business Businesses everywhere are looking to keep operational costs low. But for smaller trucking companies, fluctuating costs of fuel, driver shortage, and regulatory compliance makes it difficult to even stay in business. The Council of Supply Chain Management Professio...
Indeed, a coal-fired electric plant spews more radioactive pollution into the air than a nuclear plant. Oil and natural gas are too scarce to meet our electrical needs now, let alone in the next century. We already import over 40 percent of our oil from abroad, and that will likely ...
1. Air transport Air freight refers to a logistics mode in which the freight forwarder directly transports the goods to the destination country by air through its own channels, and then the freight forwarder's cooperative delivery agency in the destination country delivers the goods on its behalf...