The truck packages other innovative details, including an integrated bed-mounted hitch for gooseneck-style trailers.
For example, a product from China will be offloaded from a container ship by an automated off-loader, taken to an e-commerce warehouse on a driverless truck, packaged there by a robot, driven to its destination on a driverless truck and delivered to the customer's doorstep by a drone.
The freight unit, started in 2001, is separate from FedEx Ground, which trucks packages directly to consumers.
Assigned to the Army real-estate division, he worked a couple of deals for himsel the purchase & resale of 50 surplus Army trucks, packaged Army rations, & the importation of Christmas cards.
DAZZLED by the success of financial entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, companies as wide-ranging as advertising agencies, truck makers, package couriers and independent film marketers are racing to set up venture capital arms.
Earlier this year, Google received a patent to develop a self-driving truck for package delivery.
A truck carrying packaged pasta crashed, burning more than a few servings of dried noodles.
With all the climbing in and out of the truck carrying packages, his job is like a gym on wheels.
"There is nothing in the truck but packaging debris and other debris," said Richard J. Sheirer, director of the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management, who was at the scene.
For example, rules can be used to configure a product without explicitly defining all possible configurations, or rules might be used to load a truck with packages of different sizes and shapes.
