However, not all carriers have been affected equally. In the crisis, demand has been volatile, spiking or plummeting by mode and customer profile. Compared with last year, trucking volumes initially increased by about 30 percent in 2020 as a result of panic buying, then dropp...
In the wake of the COVID-19 virus, our highest priority is to do our part to help ensure the health and safety of our employees, customers, and suppliers while meeting our service commitments. From the outset, Express Freight has maintained delivery services except where limited by government...
Freight tonnage is expected to keep on growing steadily in the future according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA, 2019). Although the COVID-19 outbreak has greatly affected the global supply chain, it has not yet changed the trend of freight demand increase year by year (Barua, 202...
Due to the ongoing effects of COVID-19, it is not yet possible to distinguish between transient and long-term impacts on freight trucking activity. Nonetheless, a future expansion of the study area and the incorporation of other complementary data sources may provide further insights into the ...
Trucking employment is still significantly below where it was pre-COVID. Source: FTR Looking just at trucking jobs, on a seasonally adjusted basis, Vise said, in June we added back 8,100 payroll jobs. “That is a fraction of the jobs we lost in trucking in April and March.” ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted supply chain operations globally. The crisis placed an unprecedented strain on transportation and logistics resources. Due to the implementation of lockdowns in various countries, the shippers had to face uncertainty in the transportation of goods. The sup...
Is the Canadian border open to trucking? Canada is beginning to reopen its borders for nonessential travelafter a 16-month shutdown in response to COVID-19. ... Even though trade has been exempt from the restrictions — allowing trucks to move freely between Canada and the U.S. — the ...
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Urgent delivery for a windmill park project Our Rotterdam office had to urgently move three 40 ft containers with windmill equipment to a windmill park project in the Netherlands. There was no time to waste, since the project had a deadline that was almost due. ...
Autonomous Delivery, EV, and Trucking Data Standardization Dive deeper into freight data that matters Learn More The accelerated pandemic-driven pace of VCinvestmentin and adoption of logistics technology is normalizing, though – like the demand forfreight market intelligence– many strides made in tec...