News / US trucker shortage eases – but brakes are on in the market

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Logistics professionals are returning to the corporate sector. Truck drivers who struck out on their own during the pandemic are signing up with trucking firms again, and operations staff are applying for jobs at forwarders.

The labour shortage that hobbled many firms over the past couple of years is abating, as the market is facing a slow run.

The shortage of truck drivers, widely seen as one of the biggest bottlenecks in logistics over that period, has eased and the American Trucking ...