Logistics Management - May 1, 1999

* For a quick update on issues important to manufacturers, visit Manufacturing Central, the Web site of the National Association of Manufacturers (www.nam.org).

• Best Practices
• Virtual Taskmaster

• Business Issues
• Logistics myths and misconceptions

• Export Operations
• Exporter, protect thyself!

• Global Supply Chains
• Web browser brings product demand into focus

• Industry Awards
• LTL and parcel carriers earn NASSTRAC honors

• International
• Mexican railroads face a long, uphill climb

• International Insights
• To reconcile or not to reconcile? That is the question

• International News
• Conference Focuses on Technology in Global Logistics
• U.S.-China Aviation Pact to Increase Flights
• International News Notes
• FMC Report Chronicles Illegal Practices in Pacific

• Logistics Online
• Fear of buying

• Market Watch
• Tires
• Fuel Costs
• Recent Price Trends in Transportation Services
• Water
• Rail
• Trucking
• Air

• New Products & Services
• HEAVY-DUTY TRUCKS
• New Volvo 660 Designed for Safety, Comfort
• Heavy-Duty Trucks
• International 9000i Series Focus on Comfort
• Sterling Offers 8500 Series
• Peterbilt Unveils Model 387 Conventional
• AccuLoad Provides Accurate Positioning
• Mitsubishi's Class 6 and 7 Trucks Feature New Options
• GMC/Chevrolet's T-Series Trucks Feature New Engines
• Truck Dealer Directory Available
• Progistics Suite Provides Seamless Transportation Solution
• awp Offers Steel Bulk Containers
• Mack's "Vision" Designed for Reliability
• Kenworth Enters Class 7 Market With K37
• Livingston Helps Goods Cross U.S./Canadian Border
• QuickLift Designed for Safety
• ATA Publishes Analysis of U.S. Trucking Trends
• Welch Allyn Introduces Cordless Scanners

• News & Analysis
• Shipper-friendly ocean service in the offing
• Border Lines
• Border Lines
• Border Lines
• Border Lines
• Doing Business
• AUTO ID
• Logistics applications to spur RFID sales?
• Augello on Law & Regulation
• The most common errors in shipping and receiving freight
• Bohman on Pricing
• What to watch for when shipping to trade shows
• Copacino on Strategy
• The value of a "10-minute cup of coffee"
• Currie on HazMat
• Downsizing, rightsizing, resizing, ... capsizing?
• Logistics Briefing
• Services
• Services
• People
• Services
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• People
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• MANAGEMENT
• Technology will play larger logistics role
• MARITIME
• FMC, Congress to tighten the screws on antitrust immunity
• News Capsule
• Trains, planes, and so on:
• OCEAN SHIPPING
• Shipping conferences crumble on eve of deregulation
• Public policy
• Private truck exec urges rails to lighten up on heavier trucks
• RAILROADS
• Preparing for Day One
• REGULATION
• Shippers group endorses heavier trucks
• TECHNOLOGY
• Retailers want better WMS to maintain distribution edge
• Average ERP installation said to be a two-year ordeal
• THE WEB
• Logistics Online
• THIRD PARTIES
• Survey finds bottom line drives outsourcing
• USF Logistics acquires reverse logistics specialist
• WAREHOUSING
• Computer model picks Terre Haute as best DC location

• Parting Shot
• Don't mistake a handshake for a peace movement

• Technology News
• Symbol, Qualcomm Team Up to Create Mobile Computer
• Vendors Back Proposed Trailer-Tracking Interface Standard
• FedEx Parent Invests in Software Company

• Transportation Spotlight
• Air Freight weathers the storm

• Up Front
• An executive summary of industry news
• It's not too early to begin making plans
• The 1999 edition ofAmerican Trucking Trends,
• The U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA)
• Birds of a feather?
• Another sign of logistics' growing significance:
• The feds have not been ignoring transportation research completely, however.
• Research also is the focus of another recent initiative.
• Intermodal transportation has come a long way
• Should HOV become a HOT congestion solution?
• Diesel prices fell slightly in mid-April after seven weeks of increases,
• The Transportation Research Board has issued its 1999 Catalog of Publications.
• What's up with for-hire trucking?
• Congress has shortchanged national transportation research and development needs,

• Viewpoint
• The hard road to freer trade

• profiles in excellence
• Chain Reaction