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How The Driver Shortage Can Impact The Industry’s Most Vulnerable Cargo

How The Driver Shortage Can Impact The Industry’s Most Vulnerable Cargo There has been a silent and consequential shortage of drivers in highway transport. This is a particularly critical challenge for business-critical and pharmaceutical freight, as successful deliveries require experienced drivers who are not only familiar high-tech vehicles and monitoring equipment but are also seasoned and vigilant shepherds of their cargo. The problem doubles when a shipment is best safeguarded by
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Mission-Critical Shipments Require a Higher Standard of Quality

Mission-critical shipment values are orders of magnitude higher than what have traditionally been called “high value” shipments. The categorization includes precious cargo whose failure to arrive on time and intact puts businesses in jeopardy, and, at their most critical, can be a matter of life and death. From life-saving drugs and organs for transplants to components for assembly lines or retail items that are essential to a manufacturers’ bottom line
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The Four Critical Aspects for Reducing Cargo Theft Risk

In the movies, the super hero stops it. You know the scene. A dark alley. A truck filled with something valuable, often guns, is emptied while the guards are tied up with ropes in the back. In swoops the masked crusader to save the day. We always wonder: where are the alarms? The armed back-up? What crummy cargo operation is this? That’s not to belittle the threat. Cargo theft of
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CargoNet Best in Cargo Security Award

DeSpir Logistics is a 2017 Best in Cargo Security Award Winner   DeSpir Logistics has been announced as a winner of CargoNet’s 2017 Best in Cargo Security Award.  CargoNet, the cargo theft prevention and recovery network, encourages its members to strive for best in class cargo security protocols. Factors examined when considering 2017's nominees included: The willingness and ability to commit resources to security Standard operating procedures and best practices Utilization of the CargoNet
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On-highway Diesel Fuel Prices Feb. 27

Diesel fuel prices Feb. 27 stay flat U.S. diesel prices climb for the third week straight, but rate fluctuation continues to have relatively little variance, with cost per gallon up less than two cents since the beginning of the month. The countrywide average of on-highway diesel fuel prices Feb. 27 rose to $2.577, up just half of a cent from last week, as the Energy Information Administration reported in their Gasoline and
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Cargo theft bills advance in Mississippi and New Mexico

Pending cargo theft bills will impose harsher penalties for crimes New cargo theft bills have been proposed in Mississippi and New Mexico to deter thieves from stealing container, rail, and truck freight with more severe penalties and fines. Cargo theft is a major concern within the logistics industry, as the total cost of stolen goods is on the rise year-to-year and the methodology of thieves continues to evolve.  In the United States
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February 15-21 cargo theft reporting summary

February 15-21 cargo theft incidents decline Cargo theft is down this week, with nine domestic events reported, half as much as the previous week.  This is contrary to the trend that was threatening to develop in the first half of February, which saw forty-two cargo thefts recorded, two-thirds of the total amount of activity that was reported in January. Only one more incident from the week of February 7th through February
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On-highway Diesel Fuel Prices Feb. 20

Diesel fuel prices Feb. 20 continue to stay even Diesel prices in the United States climbed higher for the second week in a row, but with a marginal gain of less than a cent, price fluctuation in early 2017 have stayed relatively flat. The national average of on-highway diesel fuel prices Feb. 20 went up slightly to $2.572, up seven-tenths of a cent from last week, as was reported in the Energy
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February 8-15 cargo theft reporting summary

February 8-15 cargo theft incidents continue to rise Cargo theft is trending upwards again this week, with eighteen domestic incidents registered, which is three more than the week prior.  Every day had at least one event reported, but the majority of thefts occurred on Thursday and Friday, the ninth and tenth.  Nine more incidents from the week of January 31st through February 7th were received by CargoNet, the industry authority
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Growing e-commerce demand is directly impacting 3PL providers

The e-commerce market is booming and traditional retailers are adopting new business models to accommodate the growth.  In the past four quarters, the U.S. Commerce Department has reported that retail e-commerce sales have outperformed the previous year’s numbers by more than 15%.  In comparison, retail sales during the same period rose just over two percent. In a recent article from truckinginfo.com, it was reported that “UPS projects that business-to-consumer parcels will
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