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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

If things don't change, and we continue up this progression, by 2026, we will be at 170,000 drivers short. Since then ATA revised its estimates, projecting the driver shortage will rise to 63,000 by the end of this year. "If If we get there, not only is our industry in a world of hurt, our economy is in a world of hurt," Costello says.