He fills us in on Nashville Transportation Club’s big forthcoming educational event. We get on the horn with Brandon Bay of Traffix. Wayfair, the e-commerce furniture and home goods company, which employs 6,000 employees between its two Back Bay offices, has made some deep cuts in what they’re calling moves to increase efficiency. Some had seen this coming as their hiring seemed to be outpacing their sales growth. To date, Triangle has not returned the equipment. It accuses Triangle Recovery Services of falsely advertising itself as a surrender site for equipment belonging to Celadon. If Celadon didn’t have enough bad news, it now finds itself tangled up with a North Carolina towing and repossession company. In both cases, the owners decided to shut down and retire. Earlier this week, Tennessee-based Howard Baer Inc. Alan Osofsky, safety and compliance manager of Rodgers Trucking, told FreightWaves on Thursday that the high cost of doing business in California, as well as the financial challenges of being a union carrier vying for loads against low-cost nonunion companies, finally proved too much. Rodgers Trucking Company of San Leandro, California, announced it will cease operations after 48 years in late April. Only post-show did he get balanced with Dooner’s gravitational pull.Īs for the headlines, it’s not good news, but it’s essential. Prevost first broke Dooner’s orbit by placing the broom against the wall. Just look at how we demonstrate the power of gravity with the NASA broom challenge. It’s a tough balancing act, getting it all in a single live episode of What the Truck?!?, but if anyone can do it, Dooner and Prevost can. To further prove it to ourselves, we gave it the ol' college try.This week we make a clean sweep of the headlines and all the freight and logistics action. In fact, you can actually stand your broom up pretty much any time you want. There's nothing significant about February 10 and the earth's gravitational pull that would make a broom stand up. "Honestly, it's not more mysterious than standing a brick up." "It's actually a simply matter of center of mass and flat bristles," he wrote. Plait actually penned an article in Syfy in 2012 about this whole myth. But it has nothing to do with Earth’s gravity in balance or whatever." Astronomer Phil Plait also refuted the claims on Twitter, saying, "As for the #BroomChallenge itself: If the broom stands up, it stands up. While the broom challenge might seem like a revelation, NASA has not said anything to support any of the challenge's claims. Of course, there were also skeptics mixed into the slew of amazed and entertained broom challenge takers. The replies were flooded with other users posting their own broom challenge videos, along with plenty of bemusement at the brooms all standing without any interference.Īnd yes, even a few celebs got in on the broom challenge action, including pop stars (and former Fifth Harmony members) Lauren Jauregui and Ally Brooke, among others. A video on Twitter went viral on Monday showing a person making a broom stand up on its own, claiming NASA said it was the only day anyone could do this because of a strange phenomenon involving the earth's gravitational pull. The #BroomStickChallenge appears to be the first major one to strike in 2020. The internet loves a viral challenge, doesn't it?
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