Hair Follicle Drug Testing for Trucking Industry
By Sandy Long – / N2N / – There has been a debate going on among trucking companies for several years over whether hair follicle drug testing should be adapted industry wide instead of the usual urine testing. Some companies such as Schneider and CREngland have adapted hair follicle testing as pre-employment and random testing [...]
White House Releases Global Supply Chain Security Strategy
DOWNLOAD NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY The White House has released a report entitled NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY. – / N2N / – International trade has been and continues to be a powerful engine of United States and global economic growth. In recent years, communications technology advances and trade barrier [...]
VIP’s (Very Important Pandas) Arrive in Paris on the FedEx Panda Express
PARIS – / N2N / – FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world’s largest express transportation company, safely delivered two three-year-old giant pandas from Chengdu, China, to Paris, France. The pandas, Huan Huan and Yuan Zi, arrived on a specially-chartered Boeing 777F flight known as the “FedEx Panda Express” and [...]
World Trade Organization Issues Formal Invitation to Russia
- / N2N / – On December 16, 2011, trade Ministers approved the terms of Russia’s accession and issued a formal invitation for Russia to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) as its 155th Member, culminating Russia’s 18-year effort to join the multilateral trading system. Russia’s WTO membership will directly benefit U.S. economic interests by [...]
Are Transportation Companies Notorious for Cheating One Another?
- / N2N / – I have an acquaintance who owns a small, non-asset third party logistics (3PL) company. He is constantly complaining to me about how cutthroat the transportation business is and how his customers and vendors are always cheating him out of money. He spends a great deal of time trying to collect [...]
7 Myths About C-TPAT Certification
- / N2N / – As a C-TPAT (Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) consultant I find there are a number of myths, or misconceptions about C-TPAT Certification. It seems that these myths continue to float around the industry because I keep running into them. Here’s a few of the myths: 1) My company is too small [...]
Download Free PDF – All About C‐TPAT Portal Release 65
DOWNLOAD C-TPAT_PORTAL RELEASE 65 UPDATE – / N2N / – On November 12th, 2011 a new release of the C-TPAT web portal will be deployed. The new release adds many new functions for the trade including a rewrite of the “Validation Response” page. Also included is an adjusted scorecard which is viewable after the completion [...]
