Dakota Free Press: Tales of Trucker Shortage Drive Real Surge in Driver Numbers, Decrease in Freight Rates
Back in April 2021, I mentioned that low pay might have a lot to do with the apparent shortage of truckers. Various courses noted then that the trucking industry’s real problem was retention and that the driver shortage was just a fiction of trucking lobbyists angling for deregulation.
CDL 4 Life: A breakdown of how the ‘driver shortage’ narrative has pretty much ruined the trucking industry (for now)
The idea that the trucking industry is facing a severe shortage of drivers has driven the industry from a lucrative boom to a frustrating bust, truckers and industry leaders say.
It was hard to escape the narrative, during the pandemic, that there was a severe shortage of truck drivers who could move goods from one place to another.
American Journal of Transportation: Redwood Cross-Border Index: Shippers and LSPs are experiencing nearshoring growing pains
As nearshoring efforts continue to ramp up south of the United States border in Mexico, the demand for affordable trucking capacity continues to climb.
In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Dr. Chris Caplice, Chief Scientist at DAT Freight & Analytics.
Overdrive: Convoy launches proactive fraud defense to fight double-broker networks
Reps from both DAT Freight & Analytics and, now, the Convoy brokerage and its generally open carrier platform describe a fourfold increase in double-brokering complaints around the spot market.
Journal of Commerce: US truckload sector picks up pace to meet rising threat of cargo theft
A sharp increase in truckload cargo theft this year has prompted a range of transportation entities to offer solutions to a growing problem that includes nefarious activities such as load board fraud and the physical pilferage of freight.