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COLUD Break

Adecade ago or so, the transport and logistics industry was looking for efficiencies by getting to grips with handheld devices – to run baseline tasks.

This was for urban truck and van drivers, mostly but not entirely for delivery purposes, and for warehouse operations.

But such is the speed of technological and IT development that a germ on an idea could develop in that time into using one much higher up – to operate the whole company!

Welcome to the world of Melbourne port logistics service provider Norman Carriers, the cutting-edge incarnation of which is run by Gareth Hearnden.

“It all began with a dream to be able to run the entire business off a smart phone,” Hearnden tells Deals on Wheels.

“The first step was conducting a

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