Feverish demand and lack of supply driving used truck prices skyward

When it comes to the current state of used trucks, forget what Econ 101 teaches about supply and demand. Rather than one impacting the other, both are driving used truck prices to a post-Great Recession peak.

“On the supply side, ongoing new truck production constraints are causing many buyers to look for low-mileage used trucks as a substitute,” Chris Visser, J.D. Power Valuation Services commercial vehicles senior analyst and product manager, told FreightWaves. “On the demand side, the freight...

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Kaspien CEO: Take a diversified, cautious approach to minimize supply chain disruption

When the massive container ship Ever Given turned sideways in the Suez Canal, blocking ship traffic for about a week at the end of March, it represented the latest global trade disruption. Fittingly, the Evergreen ship blockage came approximately a year after the world first shut down from the COVID-19 pandemic. In the interim, there were toilet paper and hand sanitizer shortages and then a massive backlog in the supply chain as demand for freight capacity not only returned but surpassed...

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Tiny electric delivery vans occupy former home of hulking Hummer H2

The tale of Electric Last Mile Systems (ELMS) brims with irony. 

The startup’s Class 1 battery-powered delivery vans will be assembled in the plant where the hulking Hummer H2 SUV came off the line from 2003 to 2009.

Jim Taylor, the same executive who ran Hummer at General Motors (NYSE: GM), led talks to sell the brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery as GM teetered on the edge of an eventual bankruptcy reorganization in 2009. The deal fell apart in February 2010 and GM mothballed...

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