The coronavirus pandemic is whipsawing the trucking industry, as retailers clamor for delivery of food and household staples while lockdowns aimed at curbing contagion shut other businesses, leaving rigs empty on the return trip.
The spread of the coronavirus has created some division in the freight-hauling sector.
TruckLogics announced that its trucking management software (TMS) is now integrated with the DAT Load Board.
Things look bad and most of us are afraid (or ordered) to leave our homes. As dark as things are right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears one bright spot for the U.S. supply chain may be last year’s trade war with China.
The demand for hospital equipment, groceries and, yes, toilet paper has big rigs rolling and truck stops adapting.
Demand is spiking for inland trucking capacity as grocers and retailers look to restock their shelves with critical goods amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
The broader declaration provides more regulatory relief for commercial motor vehicle operations that are providing direct assistance supporting emergency relief efforts as the U.S. grapples with the potentially biggest pandemic in a century.
DAT noted that February’s decreases were in line with seasonal trends, while not “necessarily attributable to factory closures during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in China.”
The broader declaration provides more regulatory relief for commercial motor vehicle operations that are providing direct assistance supporting emergency relief efforts as the U.S. grapples with the potentially biggest pandemic in a century.
Demand is spiking for inland trucking capacity as grocers and retailers look to restock their shelves with critical goods amid the COVID-19 outbreak.