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DoorDash is paying people to load its delivery robots. It points to a shortcoming of automation
4+ hour, 53+ min ago (520+ words) DoorDash’s delivery robots need a hand. Some workers in areas where DoorDash is using its Dot delivery robot are receiving offers through the DoorDash app to load them up. While the vehicles can navigate miles to delivery destinations, it’s the…...
Organized crime is building an AI hardware cargo theft economy: ‘The economics have become just crazy from the criminal opport
4+ week, 2+ day ago (293+ words) With the data center boom projected to swell into a $7 trillion market by the end of the decade, organized criminals are centering on a particular shadow economy: hijacking AI supply chains and selling their spoils on the foreign black market…...
Cargo thieves have set their sights on data center supplies
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (246+ words) Cargo thieves have a new target. Investigators with the Cook County Sheriff’s office in Illinois said last week they recovered a pair of trailers with $1.3 million worth of data center supplies at a Chicago-area truck yard. Officials said the organized…...
Walmart truckers are getting a shorter drive home thanks to one manager’s AI project
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (599+ words) Leo Garcia is serious about getting his drivers home on time. As a regional load manager for Walmart, Garcia is responsible for hundreds of semi-trailers hauling merchandise through the Chicago area. He also knows what it’s like to be in…...
This startup wants to bring driverless freight trucks to California’s roads, but drivers are pushing back
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1116+ words) A Bay Area startup is trying to reinvent the semitruck by making the gas-guzzling giants electric, autonomous and designed for efficiency. Humble Robotics, founded last year in San Francisco, has raised $24 million to develop a cabless freight truck that lacks…...
The management lesson behind FedEx Freight’s break from FedEx
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (292+ words) At what point does a business need a different operating model? FedEx Freight CEO John Smith believes his company has reached that point. The newly independent company, which spun off from FedEx earlier this month, generates roughly $9 billion in annual…...
Truckers Kill More Than 5,000 People a Year. Regulators Are at Fault.
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (675+ words) The American trucking industry, which moves nearly three-quarters of the nation’s goods, has devolved into a dangerous, dysfunctional system that threatens every driver on the road, whether you’re in an 18-wheeler or the family S.U.V. Consider a tragedy that…...
A New Study Found Something Disturbing About the Way Delivery Workers Drive to Get You Your Burrito
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (395+ words) To conduct the study, researchers combed through the subreddits associated with the top three delivery app companies, DoorDash, GrubHub, and UberEats, to collect thousands of comments mentioning or referring to the choice to speed, and sorting each comment based on…...
From lobster to laptops, organized crime is targeting U.S. freight
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (547+ words) Donna Lemm is chief strategy officer for the trucking and intermodal company IMC Logistics, based in Collierville, Tennessee. If you opened The Post in early March, you didn’t have to read far to understand the growing threat facing the U.S....
I help manage one of the world’s most constrained supply chains, up close to the defining energy bottleneck of the decade
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (249+ words) The limiting factor in corporate growth isn’t capital or talent, its access to the equipment and energy infrastructure that make modern operations possible. Here’s what other leaders can learn from how Hitachi Energy shifted operations to improve one of the…...