Dan M Consumers love buying products online because of the convenience of push-button shopping. But the transaction becomes more complicated when items have to be returned because they are the wrong size, they don’t work, or the buyers simply don’t like them. FedEx, one of the leading package delivery companies serving the e-commerce customers, simplified the way … Read more
Martin Engineering — a global materials handling company headquartered in Neponset, Illinois — is sponsoring two teams of Illinois high school students in a national robotics competition. For the second consecutive year, the company will sponsor teams from Kewanee and Peoria in the FIRST Robotics Competitions, an annual robotics engineering contest created by Dean Kamen … Read more
This week’s Video of the Week comes from the popular CBS-TV program “Undercover Boss” which originally aired Sunday, December 14, 2014. John Hartmann, the chief executive officer of True Value Hardware, visited one of the chain’s distribution centers in Springfield, Oregon, where he was paired with a veteran True Value forklift operator named Terrell. ‘Undercover … Read more
Here’s a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find this week on the Bahrns blog: FedEx is having its busiest week of the year, but it just invested $1 billion in a company that will make it easier to return packages you don’t want. We’ll give you the details … What … Read more
Fans are such a big part of our indoor environments that most of the time we hardly ever know they are there. Yet without fans to cool, ventilate and circulate fresh air and remove odors, many of the spaces where we live and work would be uninhabitable due to a buildup of noxious pollutants and … Read more
Using cave-in protective equipment when working in trenches deeper than five feet isn’t just a good idea. It’s the law. That’s what the owners of A. Lamp Concrete Contractors — a construction company in Morton Grove, Illinois — found out the hard way last week when they were fined $69,300 by the US Occupational Safety and … Read more
A first-of-its-kind panoramic camera for heavy duty trucks that may one day become standard equipment on heavy duty vehicles has been successfully tested in the UK. The Brigade Backeye 360 Elite System will enable truck drivers to see cyclists, pedestrians, other vehicles and other potential collision dangers while maneuvering dense urban streets. It uses four … Read more
The average price per gallon of diesel fuel fell 7 cents to $3.535 last week, the steepest drop since the week of October 29, 2012. And the average price per gallon was at its lowest level since the week of February 14, 20111, when it was at $3.534/gallon, according to the US Department of Energy’s … Read more
The BNSF railroad will spend nearly $500 million next year expanding its operations in the Northern region, the company announced. The railroad — which is the second largest freight railway system in the US after the Union Pacific — currently is experiencing its fastest growth in the North, where it services the agriculture, coal, crude … Read more
A total of 108 older forklifts have been exchanged for newer ones as part of a Texas program that seeks to replace older diesel, gasoline and propane forklifts with newer, cleaner propane- and natural gas-fueled vehicles. The Railroad Commission of Texas authorized incentive payments averaging $10,703 per replacement to about 38 companies doing business in … Read more
