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UPS driver helps Danville woman in need – ABC 13

A UPS driver on the Southside assisted a woman in her time of need, potentially saving her life.

Brad Haar was delivering packages along Lake Heron Drive on April 3rd. He’d been to several houses that day and everything was going like normally would, until he heard screams.

When he put a package down at the front of a home along Lake Heron Drive, he heard someone yelling for help from the inside.
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UPS plans delivery routes for 21M packages on Google Cloud – CIO Dive

Dive Brief:

  • UPS is using Google Cloud Platform to design routing software, which saves the shipping company up to $400 million annually, according to a blog post from Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian.
  • The logistics company uses the software to inform the driver where to go “every step of the way” and has cut fuel consumption by 10 million gallons each year. The software directs drivers throughout their 120 pick-up and delivery stops and even accounts for lunch breaks, said UPS CIO Juan Perez, during Google Cloud Next.
  • UPS is also using Google’s BigQuery for comprehensive forecasting with its one billion data points created daily, including the weight, shape, size, facility capacity and customer data, said Perez. The Google platform enables data analytics while running machine learning across the data points.
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UPS Press Release

Half Of Americans Prefer Opening A Small Business To Retirement, According To The UPS Store Survey

Second annual “Inside Small Business Survey” reveals both optimism and fear for owning a small business

New data from the second annual The UPS Store® “Inside Small Business Survey” reveals that the entrepreneurial spirit remains strong. Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of Americans dream of opening a small business, almost identical to the 2018 survey (66 percent). What’s more is that the survey found that age is no indicator of entrepreneurial dreams: 54 percent of Americans say that they would rather open a small business than retire, if money or health were not a factor later in life. Dr. Luke Pittaway, Ohio University College of Business O’Bleness Professor of Entrepreneurship, says this could be attributed to people living longer, healthier lives.

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Industry News

Robots Edge Closer to Unloading Trucks in Amazon-Era Milestone – BNN Bloomberg

RobotAs FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. beef up automation to keep pace with surging e-commerce and a potential threat from Amazon.com Inc., they’ve been stumped at a crucial stage: loading and unloading trucks. Robot makers are getting close to solving part of that puzzle.

Siemens AG and Honeywell International Inc. have built machines that pull packages from the back of a tractor-trailer and place them on conveyor belts, whizzing the parcels off for sorting. Making robots that can load trucks is more complicated, although clearing that hurdle isn’t far off.

“The biggest challenge in our world is: Every single package is different in size, shape, weight, color, material,” said Ted Dengel, managing director of operations technology at FedEx’s ground-delivery unit. “It makes it a very tricky problem.”

 

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UPS spending millions to upgrade customs office in Louisville – Louisville Business First

United Parcel Service Inc. plans to spend millions to update the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office at the company’s Worldport hub at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.

The government agency has design standards for its working spaces, and this project is aimed at making sure its offices at UPS are up to par, said Jim Mayer, public relations manager for the Atlanta-based shipper. The project includes a new conference room, new walls, interior office renovations and an additional storage area, according to a building permit recently filed with Louisville Metro Government.

With this project, the company will install additional conveyors to move packages in and out of the customs area, Mayer said. It also will move people within the building to make way for the upgrades.