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The days when heavy trucks idle away the evening at truck stops and freight yards may be numbered. States and municipalities are cracking down on the practice, and DCs may be forced to follow suit.
They may look indestructible, but jumbo rolls of paper are highly vulnerable to damage?even from equipment expressly designed to handle them. How one DC perfected the art of damage-free paper handling.
This book excerpt chronicles the history of supply chain fraud from the Trojan Horse (which the authors cite as an object lesson in the need for inbound inspection) to the shenanigans of two middle managers who circumvent a security program that the TSA would envy to divert truckloads of high-tech equipment into so-called "alternative channels."
Safety-conscious motorists tend to fixate on the trucks with the scary hazmat danger warnings. But hazardous goods haphazardly stowed in unmarked trucks could pose a far bigger threat.
In a ruling many shippers have awaited for over a quarter of a century, the Surface Transportation Board terminated its approval of the agreements among 11 motor carrier bureaus to collectively determine and set truck rates.
One of the ironies of modern supply chain management is that the rush to global sourcing boosts demand for energy even as world petroleum output may be peaking.