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Driver Shortage Myths Debunked: Freight Demand Drives Trucking Jobs

Freight Waves

Michigan’s auto sector recovery by 2021 increased jobs in states like Ohio, as carriers hired to transport factory goods. rise in construction employment from 2019 to 2021 aligned with an 11.8% E-commerce, ports, and manufacturing drive job growth by increasing transport needs. In Florida, a 2.6%

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5 Years Later: 3 Things COVID-19 Changed in Supply Chain And 2 It Didn’t 

BlueYonder

Or the Panama Canal drought, which forced authorities to cancel ship crossings by 36%, costing between $500 million and $700 million. From 2007 to 2019, internet sales as a percentage of total retail sales followed a steady, predictable upward trend.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for July 18, 2025

Supply Chain Digest

” 3000+ That is the number of new cars that we being transported on the Morning Midas, a cargo ship headed to Mexico and which sank in the North Pacific on Monday, nearly three weeks after a fiery blaze broke out on board. Coast Guard is monitoring the incident and has deployed several vessels to manage potential pollution.

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T-Rex Prestige Worldwide: Thriving in a Down Market and Having Fun with Tyler Hildebrand

The Logistics of Logistics

After spending years in creative fields as an artist and filmmaker, and in higher education as an instructor and administrator, he found his way to the transportation industry in 2019. Born and raised in southern Ohio, Tyler is the son of a cop and crime reporter who met at the scene of a homicide.

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Smarter Networks for Customer Fulfillment

Speaker: Hannah Testani, COO, Intelligent Audit

You've probably noticed that shipping costs are going up. Have you ever wondered if your transportation spend is as optimized as it could be? It's 2019, and consumers are expecting shipping to be cheap and quick, but that can turn into a real headache from the shipper's side of the equation if you don't make the appropriate changes.

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FedEx and UPS Recourse to Price War

Supply Chain Matters

Background The prior boom in online retail fulfilment was financially beneficial to parcel logistics and transportation services providers including FedEx and UPS. Included in the Journal report is a graph sourced to TD Cowan and AFS Logistics that plots the index of price hikes since Q1-2019. All rights reserved.

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The Next War Will Be Fought in Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

The recent port strike, the closed shipping lane that forced a shift to air transport, the bridge that blocked a port, even the grid brownout that slowed manufacturing, might have seemed like random disruptions. Who pays the crew of the ship that blocked your shipping lane? But take a closer look. What can you do?