For beverage distributors, handling the influx of SKUs has prompted carts and hand truck manufacturers to take a proactive approach so that delivery personnel can tackle the growing challenge.
Toward the end of the last decade, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recognized the need to boost adoption of advanced driver assistance systems and in 2020 launched the Tech-Celerate Now initiative to promote awareness and implementation of ADAS.
Beverage wholesalers are utilizing DSD technology to streamline orders, browse new products to gain a better understanding of evolving, complex beverage market.
Last year, the EPA unveiled a set of proposals geared toward minimizing the levels of greenhouse gases, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter released into the air. Those standards would apply to light- and medium-duty vehicles and would phase in over model years 2027 through 2032.