Fuel theft in the USA reaches $8 Billion in 2008

In 2005 I wrote an article relating to the high risk of fuel theft and waste that is impacting US haulers over $2 Billion annually.

Based on a cost of almst $5 a gallon for diesel, my estimates for 2008 have increased to over $8 Billion of the $100+ Billion fuel spending for 2008. Read more

What is the cost of not serializing food?

Hallmark beef is billed $67 million by the US school lunch program for improperly processed beef and an additional $50 million bill is coming in 2008. When will food processors realize that serializing food can save them Billions in food recall exposure?

For almost a dozen years we’ve advocated that serializing food on an item level will save food processors Billions of dollars in recall expenses. Read more

When great plans take time to implement

This afternoon I read an excellent article in RFID Switchboard that brought to mind how important it is to put time and time management in perspective in our industry. The article, written by Carl Brown, President of SimplyRFID, discussed the timeline of implementation for the DoD (U.S. Department of Defense) RFID rollout. (Read the article here) The DoD recently announced a timeline of 2015 before the full rollout of RFID is complete and it seems the concern was by some people in the industry that the timeline was too slow. Read more