Don Wilson

Responsibility for fleet safety and regulatory compliance can be one of the toughest jobs in a dairy or ice cream company. It’s often not viewed as an important component in making a company successful or profitable. It is quite common to see these functions as second-tier management functions that are handled at the supervisor level.

Wikipedia defines “telematics” as “any integrated use of telecommunications and informatics, also known as ICT (information and communications technology).” Today, I would add “command and control” to that as well.

To be certain we are all on the same page, let’s look at my list of truck, tractor and refrigeration fuel choices. My list includes: ethanol, methanol, bio-diesel, clean diesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), propane (LPG) and methane gas. That is a list of eight possible choices.

What are your largest distribution, fleet operations, logistics and management challenges? Could it be scarcity of qualified drivers, internal competition for adequate capital investment dollars, regulatory compliance, finished-product storage capacity,

Oh the word games and buzzwords we seem unable to do without. In only a few short years, we’ve gone from “green logistics” to “sustainable logistics.”

Based on past industry experience, I suspect that many in the dairy and ice cream industry are not paying as much attention to security against purposeful product tampering and dangerous contamination as they probably should.

The continuing evolution of alternative transportation fuels, combined with new hybrid motive power and refrigeration system alternatives, reinforces the idea that there is no one best answer. However, not unlike

I’m no “tree hugger,” nor a believer of impending climatic disaster.Indeed, I have major doubts about many of Mr. Gore’s “the sky is falling” pronouncements. But we can most certainly

My definition of modern marketing-logistics management’s umbrella of responsibility and authority encompasses all tasks between the point of finished product in the package to retail point of purchase. In addition,