(Source: Washington Post, January 23, 2018)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Should we be concerned? Truckers seem to be running out of room. That seems to be the takeaway from this year’s State of the North American Supply Chain study from transportation company Averitt Express. The report, which polled 1,600 shippers in late 2017, found that diminishing truck capacity is the industry’s “primary hurdle” this coming year. Last year about 20 percent of truckers faced capacity issues, a rate that doubled from 2016.
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