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Article: Driving up costs: escalating fuel prices, HOS and driver shortages are placing a tremendous amount of pressure on shippers, according to GMA's survey.(GMA 2005 LOGISTICS SURVEY)
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- Food Logistics
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- July 1, 2005
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This is certainly an interesting time to be in logistics," says Pat Johnson, the manager of logistics at Land O'Lakes, the dairy company based in Arden Hills, MN.
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"In addition to challenges like rising fuel prices, changes in hours-of-service regulations and driver shortages, there are rail constraints and years of carrier attrition. They are really straining capacity as well as budgets."
That's how the manager of logistics reacted to the findings in the Grocery Manufacturers Association's (GMA) fifth benchmark survey on logistics. The survey of 32 consumer products manufacturing companies was conducted by IBM Business ...
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