By John Kearney According to the American Transportation Research Institute, the share of younger truck drivers in recent years has not only been increasing, it’s been decreasing. It is urgent that we reverse that pattern and start attracting capable, career-minded...
By John Kearney According to the American Trucking Associations, we have upwards of 50,000 fewer drivers than we need now, a total that could reach 160,000 by 2028. Not only that, average driver age in the over-the-road trucking industry is around 50. So, we need...
By John Kearney Amazon has announced the suspension of a pilot delivery program serving third-party vendors who sell on Amazon’s website, but don’t ship through its fulfillment centers. The program, geared toward vendors with warehouses in major cities like Los...
By John Kearney Where last-mile transport refers to final delivery from a fulfillment center to a customer (or a retail store), middle-mile shipping is delivery from a point of origin—a factory, an airport, a seaport—to a fulfillment center. Unlike last-mile,...
By John Kearney Days after a coalition of 77 commercial driver’s license (CDL) schools, along with dozens of trucking companies, shippers, and trade groups, called for legislation giving the federal government authority to administer CDL testing, a waiver has been...
By John Kearney The COVID-19 pandemic is putting pressure on many aspects of American life, and a glance at the shelves in any supermarket will tell you that one of those areas is the grocery supply chain. There is no food shortage in the United States; in fact,...
