Quotes About Logistics

He responded with a tale about how, after spending hours in late 1937 queuing at a Jersey City pier to unload his truck, he realized that it would be quicker simply to hoist the entire truck body on board. From this incident, we are meant to believe, came his decision eighteen years later to buy a war-surplus tanker and equip it to carry 33-foot-long containers.

On no trip before or since have I carried more alcohol than undergarments.)

I will not move my army without onions.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

We'd do better-if it were possible-just to eat the oil directly. For example, it takes 127 calories of fuel to fly in each calorie of iceberg lettuce from the United States to the UK. According to one estimate, the US food system consumes ten times more fossil energy than it produces in food energy. With

Never have more children than you have car windows.

DHL, the courier service, had already stopped delivering to the area, but would still drop off packages to war zones such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

Typical categories include the 6 Ms: manpower (personnel), machines, materials, methods, measurements, and Mother Nature (or environment)

Each man needed about 2 lbs of flour a day to make chapattis. Over the course of ten days, that meant 500 men would consume around 10 tons. In

planners hauled out their

An army marches on its stomach.

Thirty million bricks were needed for the project, of which two and a half million had already been ordered.

90,000 artillery rounds, 32,000 reserve muskets, 30,000 separate items of engineering equipment

It was a mammoth undertaking, throwing an army across the Channel,

The Canopus was on her way back from Gibraltar with 300 tons of water for Nelson's fleet.

Often and again, the troops around Richmond were without beef — once for twelve days at a time; they were often without flour, molasses or salt, living for days upon cornmeal alone! and the ever-ready excuse was want of transportation!

Thousands of bushels of grain would ferment and rot at one station; hundreds of barrels of meat stacked at another, while the army starved because [of] 'no transportation!

The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.