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What Collapsing Orders for Heavy Trucks – Down 71% from a Year Ago – Say about the U-Turn in Trucking
What Collapsing Orders for Heavy Trucks – Down 71% from a Year Ago – Say about the U-Turn in Trucking “When times are tough, the thinking switches to the short-term. Many fleets are just fighting for survival.” Orders for Class-8 trucks – the heavy trucks that haul a large part of the goods-based economy across […]
Grocery stores would run out of food in 3 days if long-haul truckers stopped working
Grocery stores would run out of food in 3 days if long-haul truckers stopped working Your favorite products wouldn’t be available for too long if truckers stopped working.AP Photo/Matt Rourke Trucking moves 71% of the freight in the United States. Most of the basic functions of society wouldn’t be effective if truckers were to stop […]
What Truckers & Railroads Are Saying About the US Economy
What Truckers & Railroads Are Saying About the US Economy They’re a measure of the goods-based economy. Freight shipment volume across all modes of transportation – truck, rail, air, and barge – rose 8.2% in September, compared to a year earlier, according to the Cass Freight Index. While this is still a big jump, it’s […]
What’s Going On with Trucking and Rail?
What’s Going On with Trucking and Rail? Everything is spiking, setting off “inflationary concerns.” When consumer products companies, retailers, oil-and-gas drillers, manufacturers, and other companies complain that shipping goods within the US is confronting them with soaring costs, capacity constraints, and delays, they’re not making this up. Trucking companies and railroads – an infamously cyclical […]
In Just 5 Days Without Trucks, Chaos Would Erupt in America
In Just 5 Days Without Trucks, Chaos Would Erupt in America Have you ever thought about how fast things could go sideways in America? What if we went 5 days without trucks moving supplies across the country? Have you considered how JUST ONE THING could change the world as we know it? The video below has […]
Deep “Freight Recession” Hits Railroads, Trucking, Air Freight
Deep “Freight Recession” Hits Railroads, Trucking, Air Freight “Consumers just don’t seem to be showing up….” As much as we would have liked to, the Dow Transportation Average wasn’t kidding. It has plunged 27% since its high on December 5, 2014. Nearly two-thirds of that plunge came over the past two months. Transportation companies are […]
When Trucks Stop Running, So Does Civilization. Energy and the Future of Transportation.
When Trucks Stop Running, So Does Civilization. Energy and the Future of Transportation. Also see: When Trucks Stop Running: Table of Contents, Preface, References Virtually everything in our homes, everything in our stores, got there on a truck. Prior to that, 90 percent of those items were transported on a ship and/or a train. If trucks, […]
And Now Trucking Is Suddenly Slowing Down
And Now Trucking Is Suddenly Slowing Down This comes at the totally wrong time. Trucking had been booming. 2014 had been a banner year. Capacity was squeezed, and rates were rising, so trucking companies went on a buying binge, ordering everything in the book in preparation for red-hot demand in 2015 and more banner years […]
