Dan M A Lansing, Illinois, commercial tank trailer company has been ordered to pay a former manager more than $190,000 in back wages and damages after he was demoted and eventually forced to resign for reporting dangerous safety violations. Polar Service Centers was the target of a US Occupational and Safety Administration investigation after a service manager … Read more
Last holiday season, drones were one of the most popular gifts. Now businesses are discovering new uses for the remotely piloted flying machines. Online retail giant Amazon already has said it wants to use robotic drones to support its proposed same-day package delivery. Now Wal-Mart — the world’s largest real-world retailer — says it plans … Read more
Mark your calendars: Tuesday, June 16th is National Forklift Safety Day. The third annual event is sponsored by the Industrial Truck Association and its purpose is to bring more focus to the safe use of forklifts and the importance or providing the appropriate training to forklift operators. According to the ITA, National Forklift Safety Day … Read more
Sears Roebuck & Co., once the largest retailer in the US, has been among the hardest hit by the rise of online shopping. During the first three months of this year, sales have slipped 8.3% to $5.39 billion — a loss of $471 million. — during the three months of 2016. Now company officials are … Read more
Here is a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find coming up on the Bahrns blog: Mark your calendars: Tuesday, June 16th is the third annual National Forklift Safety Day, the one day of the year set aside to bring awareness to the importance of forklift safety. We’ll tell you what’s … Read more
By 2030, warehouses worldwide will have feature products that “talk” to the driverless forklifts that transport them, vehicles that generate more energy than they use, and integrated self-reliant facilities that operate autonomously with practically zero human workers. That’s what the future is going to look like according to a new 3-D holographic display in a … Read more
Less than five months after it began making runs between Asia and the US, the largest cargo ship ever to make port in North America has been redirected to the Asia-to-Europe port. One reason France’s CMA CGM SA cargo shipping company’s shifting the mammoth CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin was due to US ports being unable … Read more
Here is a special sneak preview at some of the stories coming soon on the Bahrns blog: Just five months ago, West Coast port officials were ceremoniously welcoming the world’s largest cargo container ship. Now the giant vessels are no longer being welcomed at US ports. We’ll tell you what happened and how it could … Read more
If the US economy hopes to remain competitive globally, it needs to spend an additional $1.4 trillion on infrastructure improvements between now and 2025, and another $5.2 trillion by 2040, according to a report issued last week by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The report, called “Failure to Act: Closing the Infrastructure Investment Gap … Read more
Does it seem like there are a lot more drones buzzing around overhead lately? Well, get ready because there’s about to be a lot more. Thanks to improved technology and lower prices, pilot-less drones were one of the most popular gifts last holiday season. Go to YouTube or any other video-sharing site and you are … Read more
