Will Technology Destroy Logistics Companies?

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(12-20-2017, 11:13 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: What you're proposing can only be done with LTL services. 

Oversized loads are a completely different animal.

For example, my company manufactures industrial material handling equipment.  We have a crane heading to Arizona that, after disassembly, will require 5 loads.  4 of the loads will only need 5 days to get there, even though 2 of them will be roughly 100 feet in length each.  The trolley is both oversize and overweight, requiring 14 days to make the journey.  Local restrictions and regulations along the way require different things along the way.  Permits are required everywhere, but some places will have prohibitions on the route or times of travel.  Some places will require police escort.

Those types of things will never be able to be automated.  They need the human outreach to coordinate among all of the localities, etc.

Ba careful using the word "never", if there is a need it can be programmed. Everything you mentioned are just operator's that will trigger further actions with it's own subset of rules to determine proper handling of situations.