Colm Kelly Sales Director

A day in the life of a dairy logistics planner

dairy logistics planner

A Dairy Logistics planning specialist plays a crucial role in ensuring the efficient and timely collection of dairy products from farms and their transportation to processing plants. It requires a great deal of planning and coordination to overcome the various challenges that may arise in dairy collection logistics.  In this article, we will discuss the …

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The dairy industry & OptaHaul – why we care

Which challenges in the dairy industry make OptaHaul care so much about protecting it and do all we can to the support dairy community? At OptaHaul, we believe that the dairy industry is an important industry for many reasons.  Dairy is nutritionally vital to our health throughout our entire life.  Dairy provides millions of jobs …

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Challenges of implementing a route optimisation software

Implementing route optimisation software

As we meet more and more dairy processors and hauliers, we are surprised at the number of companies struggling to modernise their milk collection planning, even though they have procured the services of a route optimisation company to do just that. We are often met with sceptical ears when we bring up the topic of …

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Reducing carbon footprint in the dairy industry – Part 3: Dairy Processing

carbon footprint farming

In this third and final part of our 3 part series on reducing carbon footprint in the dairy industry, our attention turns to dairy processing. Research for this series has led to many fascinating discoveries in what the dairy processing industry is doing to reduce its carbon footprint. Some initiatives are quite obvious, like applying …

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Reducing carbon footprint in the dairy industry – Part 2: Milk Transportation

carbon footprint farming

In this second part of our 3 part series on reducing carbon footprint in the dairy industry, we focus on the milk transportation from the farm and delivering it to the processing plant, and then from plant to market.  There are 2 areas of particular focus in reducing carbon footprint in dairy transport.  Emissions from …

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Reducing carbon footprint in the dairy industry: part 1 – Farming

carbon footprint farming

The dairy industry is comprised of three main areas, farming, milk transportation and processing and they can all emit carbon into the atmosphere. There are many ways those in the dairy industry can reduce their carbon footprint or become carbon neutral.  In our 3 part series of “Reducing carbon footprint in the dairy industry” we …

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