Package sorting and scanning is already automated in many UPS Inc. facilities, but loading trucks is a completely ... A robotic arm sorting Amazon containers onto pallets in a districbution ...

Monday marks the highest global pickup day for UPS Nearly 34 million packages will ... A 767, for example, can carry up to 24 package containers weighing a maximum of 132,000 pounds.

The initiative, called Preload Smart Scan, uses Bluetooth beacons that connect to package scanning devices worn by UPS employees loading packages. Here's how the beacons work: The scanner ...

Since the system has a 20 percent redundancy, packages are dynamically rerouted to the right loading ... an aircraft, containers lock into place to avoid moving about in flight. UPS crams up ...

Some experts are not as optimistic as Jindel or Eisner about the ability to find a home for UPS’s normal 20 million daily packages. “You’ll end up having shipments stuck on the loading docks ...