Half of my job is focused on building and maintaining our engineering infrastructure – Strategy Management, Business Intelligence, Lean Six Sigma and Operations Research. These are the shared services that we use to improve our strategy and execution through the application of science.

For that reason, it makes me happy to see transportation covered in this month’s math feature column at the American Mathematical Societies website (http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/trucking.html). The article discusses the famous vehicle routing problem that we are so familiar with in LTL. It’s a glimpse into a bit of the complexity involved in providing exception-free, on-time and fast service at a competitive price.

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