Aluminum platform trucks are one of the most convenient, efficient, and cost-effective ways to move small loads through your business. But using aluminum platform trucks improperly can result in tip-over accidents and other disasters that can result in damaged or ruined products and the potential for employee injuries. Here are five things NOT to do … Read more
Women comprise 44 percent of the US labor force, but only 6 percent of the nation’s truck drivers. Now a group called Women in Trucking (WIT) wants to change all that. One of the ways they plan to do that is to introduce the concept of women truck drivers to young girls at an early … Read more
Workplace accidents involving spilled gasoline, diesel, waste oil, engine fluids, and other potentially explosive fuels can put your employees, products, and workplace at risk. For bigger spills, the best response is to call 911 and have the local fire department handle the situation. But for smaller spills, it may be possible to control the spread of spilled … Read more
Wal-Mart has submitted a patent for robotic shopping carts that don’t require you to push them as you shop. Actually, the devices — which apparently resemble “Roomba” style robotic floor sweepers — will fit on the bottom of the retail giant’s existing shopping carts and will automatically guide the carts to follow you around as … Read more
In one of the most unlikely business pairings in recent memory, Google’s parent company Alphabet is teaming up with the Chipotle restaurant chain to delivery burritos and other items to college students at Virgina Tech University via pilotless drone. Many businesses, including Google, Wal-Mart, Amazon, and others are experimenting with robotic drones as a way … Read more
Improved severe injury reporting requirements among US businesses has revealed a disturbing trend: On an average workday in the US, seven employees suffer amputations of their fingers, toes, hands or other body parts. In 2015, new regulations enacted by the US Department of Labor required US companies to report any serious workplace injury, such as … Read more
A growing US economy means more trucks on the nation’s highways and roads. Unfortunately, it also means more traffic fatalities involving trucks, according to a new report. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that truck-involved crashes resulting in fatalities increased by 4.4 percent in 2015. And at least part of that increase was attributed … Read more
In recent years we have seen most aspects of warehouse operations evolve into the use of new equipment and technologies, but it seems that the dock has been immune to the changes, at least until now. Focus on making warehouse operations more efficient and safer has finally been turned toward the dock. For example, new … Read more
For years now, high-tech companies like Google, Vuzix, Ubimax, and others have promised that wearable technology will make our lives better and easier. But how will it actually work? Look no further than a pilot program from global package delivery service DHL to understand the answer. DHL Supply Chain, a subsidiary of the German company … Read more
Anyone who has worked around docks or delivery vans, at some point or another has probably seen some pretty sketchy materials used as dock boards: Cracked and splintery pieces of old plywood, wooden 2X4 beams, and even old metal advertising signs have been used to span the gap between where the dock ends and the … Read more
