Driver Networks and The Future of Last-Mile Delivery Operations
Rob Howard
January 22, 2015
My smartphone now allows me to order and receive almost anything within an hour or two — from a bottle of wine a dinner guest
Addressing a Legal Threat to Local Delivery Operations (The FedEx Ground Case on Driver Classification)
Rob Howard
October 30, 2014
The recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that FedEx misclassified its Ground drivers as independent contractors is “a shot across the bow”
Time for Companies to Rethink Their Customer Delivery Strategy
Rob Howard
August 28, 2014
While couriers have long been used for local or “last mile” business-to-business deliveries in the U.S., and for consumer deliveries in densely populated areas of
Debunking the Myths of Same-Day Delivery (Or What Amazon Learned from a 90-Year-Old Distributor)
Rob Howard
April 15, 2014
What do both Google and eBay do wrong that a 90-year-old industrial supply distributor does right? I’m talking about same-day delivery. And I’m also talking
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