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Final mile (also called “last mile”) is a term used to refer to the last leg of a delivery route (it is not a mode of transportation). Businesses can define last mile in different ways, depending on what is most relevant to their business and their customers’ expectations. Final mile delivery falls into two categories: light goods (typically less than 150 pounds) and heavy goods.
Fleet Enable by Imaginnovate is designed to optimize the difficult logistics of last-mile delivery.
A strange situation: Its competitors are also its customers and can plead with government officials to stop the USPS from taking actions it wants to implement
Kirby Fine, principal, ATL Partners, and Gordon Branov, CEO of Pilot Freight Services, talk about trends in the last-mile heavy-duty bulky market during the FreightWaves Last Mile Logistics Summit.
Large-format home deliveries to become most critical part of supply chain, Nick Hobbs says during FreightWaves Last Mile Logistics Summit.
A “dance floor” inside the driver’s cabin for easy movement. Exterior cameras linked to a digital display inside the cabin, giving the driver a 360-degree view outside the vehicle. Those are just two of the features in Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) highly anticipated new custom electric delivery van designed and built in partnership with electric vehicle […]
FreightWaves market expert and analyst Zach Strickland talked with Karen Tyndall, GlobalTranz director of customer solutions, during FreightWaves’ Last Mile Logistics Summit on Thursday.
U.S. Federal Maritime Commission steps forward with notice of inquiry to evaluate alleged ocean carrier abuse of “merchant” definition for bill of lading responsibility.
Shipping, logistics giant expects very strong peak season.
Drayage truckers on the Envase platform have access to an online marketplace that connects them to available parking and storage lots nationwide.
The Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference insists the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has jurisdiction to ensure that ocean container chassis provisioning is conducted fairly.
Forward Air announces another acquisition as it advances its no-wait growth plan. The Greeneville, Tennessee-based trucking company adds intermodal drayage provider Value Logistics to its roster.
Talk of a European supply chain unit sale may put XPO’s Jacobs at fork in the road.
Company redrawing the peak landscape, and is expected to dominate it, Convey says.
Retailers would be crushed by soaring parcel prices, consumers would face hefty hikes,Charles River report says.
Higher costs could cut deep this holiday.
Jacksonville, Florida, employees are offered counseling following the second shooting at the Amazon facility in recent months.
A huge police presence was witnessed outside the Amazon Fulfillment Center Tuesday night.
The logistics warehouse of the future will be heavily automated, purpose-built for e-commerce and ready for tenants to “plug in” and go live almost immediately, a top executive for distribution giant Ingram Micro said Tuesday. Keynoting FreightWaves’ daylong webinar on the future of logistics warehousing, Ken Beyer, executive vice president and president of commerce and […]
Forward Air adds traditional LTL service to more of its facilities as carriers put more assets to work in the space.
JLL projects an additional 1 billion square feet in logistics property demand by 2025. That may be way too low.
