trailer management

How leading fleets are battling labor and trailer challenges

Keeping supply on pace with demand is a never-ending game for logistics providers. The game, however, is becoming increasingly difficult.

Supply chains are facing a major problem: Demand is surging, but supply is shrinking. The squeeze on resources has left many doing more with less, making trailer management an even harder task — one that calls for greater trailer visibility, but most importantly, expertise.

“The best in the game are running at about 80% [trailer] utilization,” Francis Roy, vice...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-leading-fleets-are-battling-labor-and-trailer-challenges

Momentum building to slash detention times

Idle hands may be the devil’s workshop, but idle trucks don’t work for anybody.

Driver detention is the downtime in hauling that befalls truckers at pickup or delivery locations. Everyone in the industry dreads delays, especially expensive ones, and detention costs do enormous harm to the bottom line.

In fact, driver detention times have become such a pressing issue that even U.S. lawmakers are urging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to address the matter.

The $494 billion...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/momentum-building-to-slash-detention-times

Watchdog agency: USPS spending millions on idle trailers

The results of an audit into how the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) manages its leased trailer fleet found that millions of dollars are being wasted due to lax oversight, according to the agency’s watchdog group.

Specifically, the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) determined that the Postal Service spent on average $472,744 per month from January 2019 to March 2020 on idle trailers, costing USPS a total of $7.1 million, due to insufficient monitoring of the fleet by management.

“Management needs...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/watchdog-agency-usps-spending-millions-on-idle-trailers