Hello, I’m Paul van der Does, Sales Manager at CargoMatic, and I have 25 years of experience in the automatic loading and unloading of trailers. Today, I’m starting a monthly blog in which I’ll discuss the latest developments in the logistics sector—the opportunities, the challenges, and how customers can respond to them. Let’s take a look back 25 years. When I first started, automatic loading and unloading of trucks was a true revolution. Many forward-thinking and rapidly growing manufacturing companies were no longer able to store their finished products internally and often, in collaboration with logistics service providers, built external warehouses 5 to 20 kilometers from the production site. To efficiently transport the cargo from production to the logistics center, an automatic loading and unloading system was introduced. Forklift drivers would place the pallets on the system, and once a full load was ready, it would be automatically loaded. As a result, loading times were sign...