To the uninitiated, America's trucking industry might appear as it always has to casual observers — trucks and trailers, rumbling down the interstate highways carrying loads of freight hidden inside a trailer, or covered beneath a tarp, or sealed inside a tanker's polished sides. Looks, ...
A new era: Trends shaping China’s heavy-duty trucking industry September 20, 2024 | ArticleAs the heavy-duty-truck market begins to stabilize, what does it mean for OEMs strategizing their next moves?(7 pages)The Chinese heavy-duty-truck (HDT) market has faced ...
Using information from the Economic Census, Motor Carrier Financial and Operating Statistics, and the Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey, trends are examined in specialization and in vehicle use in the truckload (TL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) segments of the for-hire trucking industry. The VIUS...
Jacob White, Peterbilt’s director of product marketing, says the OEM, “like most everyone in almost every industry, is navigating through the shortages as best as possible. Our team has put together a good plan and we continue to deliver Peterbilt trucks to our customers as quickly as possi...
(Mercedes-Benz’s Level 3 autonomy mentioned above amounts to a “traffic jam chauffeur,” limited to autonomy in specific driving conditions.) AMcKinsey surveyestimates that Level 4 robo-taxis will be viable at scale by 2030 and that fully autonomous Level 5 trucking could be ready between ...
Q3 trucking spot & contract rate recap Economic outlook: indicators that drive freight demand Trucking trends impacting the market Q4 truckload market forecast New to the Curve? Theseessential truckload market resourceswill give you foundational industry knowledge and teach you how how we build our pro...
We investigate the relationship between technology and drivers' work using data from the Sloan Trucking Industry Driver Survey. We find that the largest firms are most likely to equip their trucks with satellite based systems (SBS), prov... KA Monaco,DL Belman - 《Research in Transportation Econ...
We’re coming to the end of a period of oversupply that will likely feature drivers and/or trucking companies leaving the market. As a result, the supply/demand balance will flip from what we saw in 2023 and rates will rise as capacity becomes harder to secure — this transition is known...
ByAlessandro Pasetti Wake up call: What follows isn’t rocket science but it was worth flagging, it being a classic, tasty (food for thought) case from the freight industry, for trucking junkies. Ok, so This week, you may have read this: “Trucking conditions crashed to pandemic lows thi...
Here are some of the most common and challenging current labor trends in the transportation industry impacting positive employee relations in the industry.