Knight-Swift – any sign of the longed-for US freight inflection?
‘Kind of a grind or just a slow progression’
It turns out pandemics are such confounding and stubborn things.
They find and exploit that one critical weakness which then brings the whole system crashing down.
There have been so many anomalies, so many paradoxes, twists and turns and even dead ends since this all began.
One of those is driver shortages…
A few years back, you could have easily argued that the claimed driver shortage was mostly a “labour market standoff” (especially in the U.S.). Poor pay and conditions meant that there was ...
European port congestion now at five-to-six days, and getting worse
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