Lately, there seems to be a growing uptick in the number of working adults in the U.S. who desire a chance to change careers. That would seem, potentially, to open up an opportunity to bring fresh blood into the arteries of the trucking industry &ndash…
Category: Trucks at Work
How Amazon is changing supply chain thinking … and mayhap trucking too.
So now that that the initial hoopla surrounding Amazon’s purchase of high-end grocery store chain Whole Foods for $13.7 billion – a company with 431 supermarkets and 91,000 employees in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom that is also A…
How Amazon is changing supply chain thinking … and mayhap trucking too.
So now that that the initial hoopla surrounding Amazon’s purchase of high-end grocery store chain Whole Foods for $13.7 billion – a company with 431 supermarkets and 91,000 employees in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom that is also A…
Targeting trucks as energy gluttons
It’s one of those by-now almost unsurprising policy stances when it comes to energy consumption and freight movements: the portrayal of trucks as “bad apples,” despite their critical role in delivering everything that keeps our modern…
Targeting trucks as energy gluttons
It’s one of those by-now almost unsurprising policy stances when it comes to energy consumption and freight movements: the portrayal of trucks as “bad apples,” despite their critical role in delivering everything that keeps our modern…
Robots in trucking: Friends or foes?
It’s a question being asked with more and more frequency today not only within the freight industry but the business world at large: Are robots going to help us do our jobs better? Or replace human workers altogether?
The question is particularl…
Robots in trucking: Friends or foes?
It’s a question being asked with more and more frequency today not only within the freight industry but the business world at large: Are robots going to help us do our jobs better? Or replace human workers altogether?
The question is particularl…
Tackling the challenges faced by trucking CFOs
There are all sorts of issues bedeviling motor carriers these days – the ongoing driver shortage, downward pressure on freight rates, a perhaps mythical capacity crunch; go ahead and take your pick – and most bring significant financial cha…
Tackling the challenges faced by trucking CFOs
There are all sorts of issues bedeviling motor carriers these days – the ongoing driver shortage, downward pressure on freight rates, a perhaps mythical capacity crunch; go ahead and take your pick – and most bring significant financial cha…
The mother of all trucking mirages
For many years now, we’ve awaited the arrival of what’s been dubbed the “mother of all capacity shortages” in the trucking industry: that “magical combination,” in the words of John Larkin, managing director and head of transportation capital markets research for read more