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Home Furnishings Business recently gave some very valuable insight into the relationship between election years and furntiure industry growth. We've included a synopsis below. For the full article click here. Is an election year partly responsible for a healthy economy? Are furniture sales higher and unemployment rates lower? Looking back over the past 20 years and the elections those years encompassed yields interesting results. With the exception of the Great Recession in 2008, a possible heightened sense of confidence and hope for the future during election years may partly be responsible for higher furniture sales growth, consumer confidence, gross domestic product and lower unemployment rates.

An amendment set to come to the Senate floor this week would, if made law, bring back regulations requiring truckers’ 34-hour restart to include two 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. periods and limit the restart’s use to once a week.

If you are a retailer of big ticket merchandise, you understand that the selection of a partner for your third party logistics solutions is an integral decision for the profitability and health of your business.

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Home Furnishings Business recently wrote a fantastic article on home delivery. We highly recommend reading it in it's entirety but if you only have a few minutes you should at least read the section below-

“Every battle is won before it is fought.” ― Sun Tzu

A drone has successfully delivered a package to a residential location in a small Nevada town in what its maker and the governor of the state said Friday was the first fully autonomous urban drone delivery in the U.S.

Online retailer Amazon has big plans and much of it involves a very complex logistics operation. It's been rumored for some time but now plans are coming to fruition.  "Amazon is now officially going into the air freight business with the announcement that the Seattle online retailer has signed a five to seven year lease for 20 cargo planes.

Congratualtions to award recipients of the annual Bob's Discount Furniture Partner in Progress GALA. 

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual Brake Safety Week is scheduled for Sept. 6-12. The annual outreach and enforcement campaign was created in partnership with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and involves law enforcement agencies across North America. Inspectors will conduct roadside inspections of commercial trucks and buses to look for missing, loose or worn parts, air or hydraulic fluid leaks, and other issues with brake systems. Vehicles will be placed out of service if they have defective or out-of-adjustment brakes.