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Gas Trucks U-turn as Shortage Shifts From Texas to Florida

Material Handling & Logistics

When that storm choked off major metropolitan areas like Dallas and San Antonio, surplus gallons in Florida was trucked about 1,000 miles west to the Lone Star State to ease the shortages ahead of a long holiday weekend. 6 one of the Florida-bound tankers made a sharp turn to deliver into Virginia instead. Running Low.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

One sector that is dealing with this now is fuel transportation. The companies that transport fuel to gas stations are scrambling to find qualified drivers to deliver every shipment. We have written about the truck driver shortage quite often and its impact on transit times and freight costs.