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Level Up: Freight-Tech for SMB Freight Brokers with Andy Tomka

The Logistics of Logistics

He got his start during college dispatching trucks for Hills Brothers Trucking in Omaha, NE. Focus on domestic truckload shipping: MVMNT’s core business centers around managing domestic truckload shipments within the United States. Andy is a graduate of Iowa State University’s Supply Chain Management program.

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Veterans Day with Gratitude

BlueYonder

My dad went through 13 weeks of basic training, had a short furlough and was shipped to Scotland. On June 6 he boarded a Higgins Boat (landing craft), circled for 45 minutes and then proceeded to land on Dog Red Beach part of Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. Once again, he got very sea sick.

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Lest We Forget

Kinaxis

The only story I ever remember hearing was about the night he thought they were about to be attacked by an enemy ship – only to find out they were preparing to go to war with an iceberg. He had been part of the Normandy invasion, the ship he was stationed on involved in the seaborne attack at Omaha Beach.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 1.14 - 1.18

Freight Plus

parcel shipping. FedEx Freight Direct will offer heavy and hard-to-handle item delivery to last-mile destinations in Atlanta, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Dallas with a two-hour delivery window. Ecom causing urban planners to face final-mile delivery challenges. strain areas not designed for the elevated traffic. billion by 2016.

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Early winter storms could cause freight schedules to slip

DAT Solutions

It also snowed in Chicago, Omaha, and Kansas City, but nobody gets quite so worked up about that. Major e-commerce providers have promised free shipping on all orders, and some of their delivery commitments are pretty aggressive. Ten inches of white stuff covered Lubbock, Tex. There are black ice warnings for Alabama and Georgia.

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Veterans Day with Gratitude

BlueYonder

My dad went through 13 weeks of basic training, had a short furlough and was shipped to Scotland. On June 6 he boarded a Higgins Boat (landing craft), circled for 45 minutes and then proceeded to land on Dog Red Beach part of Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. Once again, he got very sea sick.

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4 Ways To Save On Trucking Freight in 2018

Freight Plus

a large Omaha-based trucking company, reset its guidance on rate increases at between 6% and 10%, up from 4% to 8%. Audit your shipping activity for the past year or three and start getting an idea of what is going where and when. The Wall St. Journal reported. this week, Werner Enterprises Inc.,a Negotiate. –