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’Tis the season for giving. Here are a few examples of how companies in the
transportation and logistics sector are helping others:
▪ Employee volunteers from Menlo
Worldwide Logistics visited the Philea
Charity Home in Klang, Selangor Darul
Ehsan, Malaysia, to provide residents with
gifts and one-on-one educational sessions
on basic computer and other IT skills. The
Philea Home provides shelter and services
to underprivileged children.
▪ The South Carolina Ports Authority has awarded $30,000 to nonprofits
and the Charleston County School District as part of its annual Community
Giving program. This year’s winners are engaged in projects to protect
Lowcountry habitats, engage at-risk students, and support the arts.
▪ The Paralyzed Veterans of America’s Mission: ABLE campaign has
received a donation of $255,157 from Penske Truck Rental. Mission: ABLE
helps paralyzed military veterans obtain physical and health care, benefits
they’ve earned through military service, and job training and employment
opportunities.
▪ Tucker Co. Worldwide Inc.’s president and co-owner, Jim Tucker, ran the
Philadelphia Half Marathon to raise money to fight Alzheimer’s disease.
Tucker and the 2013 Run to Remember team collectively ran over 1,500 miles
and raised over $130,000.
▪ International Business Systems employees raised and donated some
$10,000 for relief efforts in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan.
▪ FedEx Corp. delivered more than 200,000 pounds of pharmaceuticals and
medical supplies to communities in the Philippines on behalf of Direct Relief
and Heart to Heart International. FedEx also delivered two water-treatment
systems for Water Missions International.
▪ The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association raised more
than $46,000 for Truckers for Troops, a campaign that sends care packages to
military personnel stationed in combat zones. ;
Logistics gives back
“Exchanging Supply Chain Perspectives,” DC VELOCITY’S newest blog, offers
advice and insights about supply chain management best practices and current issues. Author Thomas F. Pettit, senior vice president and general manager of Ryder Supply Chain Solutions, draws on more than two decades of
experience in operations and supply chain management to comment on such
subjects as the unique requirements of medical device supply chains, how to
become a “shipper of choice,” and the benefits of participating in environmental initiatives like the Carbon Disclosure Project and the Environmental
Protection Agency’s Smart Way program.
Pettit leads the operations of Ryder’s supply chain industry groups in such
areas as automotive, high tech and electronics, consumer packaged goods,
and retail. Read his posts at http://blogs.dcvelocity.com/supply_chain_
perspectives/. ;
New Ryder blog debuts on DCV website
We receive a LOT of press releases
about new products—tens of
thousands of them a year. So we
could be excused for thinking
we’ve seen every possible way to
pitch products … until we
received a message in our inbox
titled “Ten Must-Have Products
to Survive the Walking Dead.”
The e-mail turned out to be a
product roundup from Larson
Electronics, a supplier of industrial
lighting for warehousing and other
applications. Beneath the headline
“What are your chances of surviv-
ing a ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE?”
were descriptions of various light-
ing products that would offer pro-
tection in case of an invasion like
those in some recent horror films.
Just two examples:
▪ “The HL-85-HID is an
extremely rugged and powerful
spotlight designed to provide maximum output with high reliability,
making it the perfect tool to spot
zombies before they see you in the
distance. It has an adjustable light
head that can be turned to produce
a flood beam to see what’s near or
a spot beam to see at a distance.
With a beam reaching distances of
over 2,800 feet, hopefully you will
have plenty of time to run! The
HL-85-HID plugs into any abandoned car or truck you find.”
▪ “Make sure to equip your
prison home with our HALP-
EMG-48-3L-LED emergency
light fixtures. When the generators fail, these emergency battery-backup lights will provide light
for 90 minutes after the power is
lost. This gives all current survivors over an hour and a half to
take cover and exit the building
without fear of meeting face-to-face with a zombie in the dark.” ;
“Must have” lights for
zombie apocalypse
