Macy’s Inc. is planning to build a distribution and online order fulfillment center in Rowan County, North Carolina that “ultimately will employ about 2,800 people.” The $584 million dollar investment will open in 2024 in China Grove, which is only 35 miles northeast of Charlotte, and will “handle 30% of Macy’s digital supply chain when fully operational.” The state of the art facility will further build Macy’s inc. as one of the leading omnichannel retailers in the country. Read more…
Southern California has seen an explosive boom in job growth since the recent decline of the Omnicron variant, with logistic sectors joining hospitality and healthcare in aiding the economic recovery. In particular, the logistics center of the Inland Empire has been especially successful, nearly recovering all jobs lost since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 . Read more…
Total Quality Logistics, a major North American logistics provider, is set to expand at its offices in Lexington, Louisville, and unincorporated Boone County, “adding 525 jobs across those locations. It will add 300 positions in Lexington, 125 in Boone County, and 100 in Louisville.” These new openings will help the company meet the demand for transportation services such as “ freight brokerage and third-party logistics to both domestic and international markets.” Read more…
Finding and retaining talent in the logistics and warehousing space remains a massive concern countrywide due to the demand coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the rapid rise in e-commerce, “the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the transportation, warehousing and related fields will add close to 735,000 jobs by 2031.” Companies such as Prologis are helping to find and create these skilled logistics workers. Read more…
Though we didn’t start experimenting with self-driving vehicles until the 2000’s, we’ve created incredible strides with the hardware in the last 15 years, but the early estimate of 2025 as when most new vehicles would drive themselves won’t become a reality. There are still harder issues being tackled, including the fact that the vehicles’ systems don’t work 100% of the time. Though almost all “long haul trucker jobs would be eliminated,” and “the effects would be felt across the country as truckers can account for significant income to several rural areas,” this bleak future for truck drivers is still many years away. Read more…
With long stretches away from home and family already making truck driving jobs less than desirable, low pay has compounded the trucker shortage even further. As drivers around the country “quit their jobs en masse, the trucking industry needs an estimated 80,000 more drivers to operate optimally. That’s a historic high, according to the American Trucking Associations.” Many believe that the only way to fix this issue, as with many other industries across the pandemic-stricken economy, is to re-evaluate wages and benefits for these applicants. Read more…
MATS, the 50th Mid-America Trucking Show, is honoring the men, women, and trucking companies who helped create the industry by introducing its first ever MATS Wall of Fame. The commemorative wall will be introduced at this year’s annual trucking event, and it will also be permanently preserved on a digital wall on the MATS website. Current nominees include “historical figures and trucking ‘legends’ to modern day trucking professionals that are already influencing the future of trucking,” such as Ellen Voie, Bob Spooner, Susie De Ridder and more. Read more…
New jobs are coming to Virginia as A. Duie Pyle, a large trucking, warehousing logistics company based in Pennsylvania, is opening multiple new locations in Richmond, Roanoke and Manasses. A. Duie Pyle “provides transportation and distribution services mainly under a ‘less-than-truckload,’ or LTL, business model, shipping from 27 service centers and 16 warehouse facilities.” Read more…
Prologistix, a Southern Indiana logistics company, is trying to make it easier for employees to get to work by partnering with the bus service Zeelo. With gas prices skyrocketing and the cost to maintain and own a car already through the roof, this partnership can make it easier for employees to get to work. Prologistic Regional Vice President Tim Devine stated that a lot of their employees “struggle with reliable transportation,” and went on to find that about 47% of their employees “were interested in some sort of shuttle service.” Read more…
In order to improve supply chain issues, and in turn create new logistic jobs, states like California need to concentrate on comprehensive, long term solutions. Some examples are: securing more workhouse spaces, becoming more efficient at marine terminals, hiring more trucks and drivers, creating 21st century jobs, and building more electric infrastructure. Read more…
