Milestone Equipment

In capacity crisis, fleets struggle to find equipment

A strong freight market and manufacturer backlogs have ignited demand for leased equipment from fleets far surpassing supply. This extraordinary demand could continue to outstrip supply well into 2022, especially for intermodal chassis and trailers.

As one of the largest- and fastest-growing transportation equipment lessors in the U.S., with over 95,000 trailers, intermodal chassis and domestic containers, Milestone is working to help fleets meet their demand for leased equipment in 2022. 

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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/in-capacity-crisis-fleets-struggle-to-find-equipment

Carrier networks relying on 3G don’t have the time they think

Food-as-software will make a chunk of ag-sector trucking obsolete (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

While the 3G sunset deadlines will wrap in  2022 for cellular providers like Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, there are still some companies in the  trucking industry that have hesitated to upgrade their 2G or 3G cellular devices to 4G LTE for various reasons: budgetary concerns, uncertainty over which tech vendor to use and a belief that the deadline will continue to get pushed out. In a poll of carriers that haven’t yet taken action, 14% said they simply lack the understanding of what a 3G sunset...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/carrier-networks-relying-on-3g-dont-have-the-time-they-think

Mobile warehousing and storage frees capacity from crowded ports

Containers will continue to land at a high rate

The transportation industry is primed for uncertainty and well accustomed to chaos, but virtually every segment of the industry has experienced growing pains as consumer demand roared back to life in a new, recovering economy. Trucking capacity is tight and getting tighter. Multiple U.S. ports have experienced massive traffic jams in the first quarter of the year. With warehouses experiencing huge demand surges, companies are searching for immediate storage solutions near ports in order to keep...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/mobile-warehousing-and-storage-frees-capacity-from-crowded-ports

Trade war, pandemic make chassis scarce

Aerial view of containers at port

COVID-19’s disruption of the global supply chain pushed intermodal equipment at ports into storage. Since China’s manufacturing and demand have come back online, available chassis at some ports around the world have been nearly impossible to find. 

“A lot of that equipment was in bad order,” said Doug Hoehn, executive vice president of chassis and containers for Milestone Equipment Holdings (Milestone), a large Missouri-based equipment lessor. “Some of it may be even in bad order to the point...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trade-war-pandemic-make-chassis-scarce