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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

from the year before, and about $250 billion more than companies spent on logistics in 2008. If things don't change, and we continue up this progression, by 2026, we will be at 170,000 drivers short. Overall, total spending on logistics rose to a record of nearly $1.5 trillion in 2017, up 6.2%