An inevitable shift to autonomous transportation will, at some point, trigger massive consolidation among U.S. truckload carriers, reshape the rivalry between trucking and railroading, and rationalize the transactional and relationship roles played by freight brokers, a leading analyst said Wednesday in a keynote address during FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit.
Lee Klaskow, senior analyst of transportation and logistics at Bloomberg Intelligence, said the autonomous trucking...
The conventional wisdom was that with more Americans vaccinated and the economy reopened, the explosion in goods-buying during the COVID-19 pandemic would moderate to at best a muffled roar. Yet the roar appears to remain as full-throated as it was in the summer of 2020, and there’s no sign from data or anecdotes that it will ease off any time soon.
A slowdown in goods-buying was “what we are expecting, but we haven’t seen it yet,” said Griff Lynch, executive director of the Georgia Ports...
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