Algoma, Wisconsin — a sleepy town on the shores of Lake Michigan, about a half hour east of Green Bay — is known as one of the premier Midwest destinations for freshwater sports fishing. In fact, at the peak of the summer fishing season, Algoma has so many sports fisherman cleaning their catches of king … Read more
Among the high-tech agricultural equipment featured at this year’s annual farm show held in Decatur, Illinois, this fall included gear that allowed farmers to monitor the quality of their stored grain via their smartphone and a high-powered grain vacuum. Farmers from all over the Midwest and throughout the US gathered in September for the 2015 … Read more
Here is a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find coming soon on the Bahrns blog: Every business has garbage cans. But garbage cans need to be cleaned and sanitized periodically to prevent contamination. We’ll tell you how often you need to clean your trash cans and how to do it … Read more
The truck driver shortage has gotten so dire that a trucking company in Utah has installed 100 channels of satellite TV in its fleet of trucks in order to attract new drivers. The trucking industry currently is undergoing an unprecedented shortage in drivers. Some blame the low pay, long hours, and the requirement that truckers … Read more
A cemetery on Long Island was fined more than $123,00 by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration last month after one of its employees was accidentally buried during a cave-in at a grave he was digging. The incident occurred May 7 at the St. Charles/Resurrection Cemeteries in Farmingdale, New York, about an hour west of … Read more
Just hours before the funding for the nation’s highway and infrastructure was set to expire, President Barack Obama on Friday signed a new five-year, $305 billion transportation bill. The new law calls for the federal government to spend $205 billion on highway projects and $48 billion on transit projects between now and 2020. The money … Read more
Here is a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find coming up soon on the Bahrns blog: A Utah trucking firm has come up with a novel way of attracting new drivers: Offering on board satellite TV in all of their truck cab. We’ll tell you how it works and whether … Read more
Amazon recently introduced a new service that automatically reorders and delivers products related to common household devices, such as clothes washers, coffee makers, and even dog food dispensers. The Amazon Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) currently can be connected to a handful of devices that monitor usage of particular products then automatically reorders them through Amazon … Read more
Companies have a vested interest in knowing where cargo containers filled with their products or supplies are located at any given time. But given the fact that ships carrying thousands of cargo containers are constantly circling the globe, it’s often difficult to know exactly where each particular container is located … until now, that is. … Read more
There are such a wide variety of issues on which a warehouse manager must focus. The fact that managers have to wear so many different hats in the day-to-day grind of coping with so many potential problems may be intimidating to some, for a good manager it’s a walk in the park. Elements on which … Read more
