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…
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…
MegaCorp Logistics, a Wilmington-based freight brokerage firm, is set to use new economic incentives to add hundreds of new jobs, ranging from “operations personnel and sales professionals to support staff,” with positions paying “an average yearly salary of $62,917.” The company, founded in 2009, helps arrange shipping logistics across all business sectors, including shipping 200,000 truckloads of freight in the last year alone. Read more…
200 new jobs are coming to Norfolk Virginia thanks to Massachusetts-based logistics company RoadOne. The company plans to build a 340,000 square foot distribution and fulfillment center only six miles from the Port of Virginia’s terminals. This will be the fourth new transload facility that RoadOne has added in the last year and a half. The center “is set to be completed by August and will have 80 dock doors for loading and unloading trucks and 800 trailer parking spots.” Read more…
With countless senior fashion executives prioritizing strengthening relationships with suppliers, and “a growing number of fashion brands ramping up the development of product passports,” opportunities in fashion’s supply chain and logistics are becoming more readily available, not to mention popular. This is especially positive in light that “fashion’s supply chain has faced a tumultuous few years, with disruptions caused by global labour shortages, regulatory changes and geopolitics.” Read more…
