Last-Mile Delivery

FedEx Custom Critical VP Ramona Hood says support system was vital to her success.

This means that customers can ship or drop off packages while they shop for yarn or Halloween decor.

The Motley Fool discovers last-mile logistics. IMO 2020 will impact logistics warehousing footprint, JLL says

Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden said that for the past year, positive unit economics has been Bird’s top priority for a sustainable long-term business. This is an ideology that departs from that of many startups and emerging companies whose focus seems to be on top line growth and revenue building.

Enter Uber Works – an app that connects shift-workers with shift jobs. The app officially launched in Chicago on October 2.

Company insists contractors are held to “high standards.”

Gur Kimchi talks about Amazon’s approach to delivering packages to your doorstep via drone.

USPS faces big revenue, volume erosion from loss of big Parcel Select customers, ShipMatrix says

Postmates just announced a partnership with Walgreens and Duane Read stores – all 174 of them – in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Salesforce drew on three years of data from 4,500 e-commerce sites to generate its forecast.

Like Lyft, Uber is also decentralizing car-sharing in an effort to defy categories and shift user perception.

First-of-its-kind FAA approval allows company to expand beyond medical deliveries.

Imagine if Uber and public transit had a baby.

Agency envisions using trucks as launch point for last-mile customers.

A shortage of nickel may stall EV battery production’ car haulers cry the driver shortage blues; where will the value-added warehouse jobs come from?

Blackstone puts money where mouth is by buying US last-mile assets of Colony Industrial

Australian logistics continues to be dangerous for workers: a man was tragically crushed to death last week. In corporate Australia, companies are winning contracts. Meanwhile, trucks might get bigger in Australia, following an official recommendation.

Michael Welch dies. Had co-founded forerunner firm to what is now XPO Logistics

XPO Logistics may be getting back in the M&A game

Lyft wants to be a one-stop-shop for all urban transit options, which might turn Google Maps into more of a competitor than Uber.