Three aspects of COVID-19 truck impacts were explored: drayage, long and short-haul movements, and payload characteristics. This analysis revealed disparate impacts of this pandemic on freight trucking activity because of local and foreign policies, supply chain bottlenecks, and the dynamic changes ...
Shipping and delivering vaccines adds to the complexity, especially as distribution rolls from large urban areas to more remote locations with smaller populations, warned Susan Beardslee, ABI Research’s principal analyst for freight transportation and logistics, in a Wall Street Journal article titled, ...
It’s the question on everyone’s mind — and has been for over a year. The trucking industry is still grappling with the long-lasting effects of rebalancing supply and demand after the wild surges in COVID-19-era consumer spending. Declines in freight volumes, inventory gluts...
Ongoing driver shortagesand high freight rates have stalled the return to normal shipping operations. At worst, these obstacles halt cargo delivery, harm vendor relationships, and subject carriers and shippers to catastrophic losses. But the future of trucking is still bright. By 2026, the...
This change, however, brings with it challenges and opportunities which is the focus of this dissertation.;In this dissertation, we give a broad introduction to the freight spot-market; we identify the challenges and the opportunities. Spot-market dispatching problem is formulated as a dynamic ...
trucking respondents—busy shipping essential goods during COVID shutdowns—were already feeling optimistic about economic trends. Forty percent said they thought the economy was heading upward, and only 9% predicted a downturn. In 2021, a lot more truckers—59%—say the economy is moving in a...
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When motorists switched to Diesel powered pickups to get better fuel economy, the price of Diesel fuel spiked to more than $4 per gallon, doubling the cost of shipping freight by truck. Efficiency improvements in container ships, such as steam turbines that generate additional power using waste ...
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