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Why the Great Driver Shortage Is Now Top of Mind for Shippers & a Driver of a Capacity Crunch

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In fact, the truck driver shortage is expected to double to 100,000 in the next five years, but other industry experts, reports Iris Kuo of Trucks.com , suggest actual worsening could be as high as 200,000 unfilled positions by 2026. percent by the end of the third-quarter in 2017. Florida.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 31 – January 6)

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On December 22, the first deliveries from new sites in Texas and California were made, according to David Carbon, Vice President of Prime Air at Amazon. Any earn-out is expected to be paid in fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2026. percent from 2017 through 2021 and will have a CAGR of 11.8 Well, the wait is finally over.