OCTOBER 2016
VOLUME 14 NO. 10
inside
28 Opening up the roads:
interview with Ellen Voie
BY MITCH MAC DONALD
3Women looking to enter the trucking
industry have long faced physical and
cultural barriers. Ellen Voie aims to change
all that.
33 We heard it through the
grapevine …
BY MARK B. SOLOMON
We bet you’re wondering how we knew,
but there are reportedly plans afoot to turn
Detroit into a regional logistics hub. But
don’t go dancing in the street just yet.
38 Technology keeps UPS
drivers on pace
BY BEN AMES
DC VELOCITY rides along with a UPS driver
to learn the ropes of today’s technology-enabled parcel delivery business.
45 RFID earns MVP honors
for asset tracking
BY BEN AMES
It has yet to fill its promise where inventory
tracking is concerned, but RFID is proving
to be a heavy hitter in the growing area of
warehouse asset management.
48 A hot new system for
cold storage
BY DAVID MALONEY
When it outgrew its main production and
distribution facility, Mydibel, a Belgian
producer of frozen potato products, built
an automated high-bay warehouse with a
state-of-the-art storage and retrieval system.
