However, DC Velocity notes that the company has resorted to traditional brokerage services to keep bringing in revenue while it waits for its app to catch on. But the brokerage segment is crowded and competitive, especially with recent sluggish freight demand. “It has also alienated some brokers...
Demand for freight transportation continues to go down while hidden unemployment rate is at 14.5 percent. For four years, trucking has been in recession with more than 3,000 companies closing in 2008. Forecasters believe that the stimulus package will sink the country into depression.Plume...
trucking companies often get into serious trouble. So it is a very bad sign that“one of the country’s oldest and largest trucking businesses”is literally on the brink of collapse…
Despite all these, some people suspect that lockdowns may be lifted in the first week of May. Trucking and shipping companies will then cope with their backlogs and lulls in production. Kentaro Yoshida, general manager of Yasuda Logistics, said it would be in July that international logistics ...
But many shippers complain that for heavy bulk commodities traveling long distances, such as coal, chemicals, and grain, trucking is too costly and the railroads therefore have them by the throat. The vast consolidation within the rail industry means that most shippers are served by only one ...
Towards understanding the impacts of congestion pricing on urban trucking Understanding policy impacts on freight is essential for planners who have overlooked this transport group in the past and must evaluate new congestion all... JM Waliszewski - 《Massachusetts Institute of Technology》 被引量: 1...
GDP in the first quarter of 2012 stood at an annual rate of 2.2 percent. The road behind: ReCession The trucking industry, as linked as it is to the construction industry, took a big hit in the recent recession. Demand for shipping dropped when demand for building materials dropped. ...
A slowdown in trucking and transportation is causing some on Wall Street to worry about an impending deceleration in the U.S. economy. The Cass Freight Index, a broad measure of freight shipment activity, fell 3.2% in April from the previous year. That drop was before President Donald ...
He says at a time when foreign conflicts, rising freight costs, and supply chain constraints are raising the cost of living globally, the efforts to ensure Fijians are paid fair wages is too important for any organisation or individual to ignore. ...
The potential benefits of autonomous cars and trucks include increased safety, reduced CO2 emissions, more leisure or work time for motorists (with hands-off driving), and increased productivity in the trucking industry. 7 8 Energy storage Ener...