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If analyst Chuck Clowdis seems unusually familiar with the ins and outs of the trucking business, there's a reason for that. He spent the first 16 years of his career on the inside.
He's stared down the Russians and Vietnamese during face-to-face market-opening negotiations. Now, Bruce Carlton faces the comparatively easy challenge of steering NITL through some rough economic seas.
No manager anywhere in a global supply chain has much, if any, influence over the price of fuel. But that's not to say managers are left without options.
According to a Sept. 17 e-mail communiqué from the T. Boone Pickens organization, Wal-Mart Stores CEO H. Lee Scott has commissioned a study to determine the feasibility of converting the retailer's 8,500 trucks from diesel to natural gas.
We all realize that the world's supply of fossil fuels is finite and that we must wean ourselves off those fuels. But it will take time to kick the habit.
For nearly 20 years, leaders in the logistics community have been wondering just what it would take to convince politicians that America faces an infrastructure crisis. Now we have the answer: Minneapolis.