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…
While data might be open to interpretation, the overall strength of the truck transportation sector continues to increase. Since the pandemic nadir employment levels of April 2020, the monthly employment report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been mostly on the up-swing. In fact, “the truck transportation sector reported by the BLS has added jobs for 22 consecutive months.” Read more…
While the picture that autonomous trucks paint in many minds might be of a world where thousands of truck drivers lose their jobs, the reality of the situation might not comport. Though driverless trucks might be an incredible feat, “there are many tasks autonomous trucks will simply not be able to perform for themselves out on the open road.” This will lead to countless new jobs in the industry for applicants across the country. Read more…
The President’s State of the Union address did not overlook the importance of national and global supply chain and logistics, as Joe Biden spoke of “key directives and positions” on the much blighted sector. While once being renowned for having the “best roads, bridges and airports on earth,” Biden suggests that “now our infrastructure is ranked 13th in the world” and that the United States “won’t be able to compete for the jobs of the 21st century if we don’t fix it.” Read more…
In the last half-past decade alone, Memphis has grown the number of jobs in the supply chain and logistics industry “by almost 15%,” putting the city on the map for being an international logistics hub. Compared to the national average for job creation within the industry, which sat under 7% from 2015 to 2020, Memphis has doubled that rate by “nurturing of tech talent within the space,” while also offering “significantly lower operating costs when compared to other logistics markets like New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.” Read more…
