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 LOGISTICS FACILITY COMING TO RICHMOND
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…
LOGISTICS COMPANY TRYING TO FIND RIDES FOR WORKERS
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…
COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS WILL CREATE NEW LOGISTICS JOBS
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…
DIESEL PRICES TAKING ITS TOLL ON TRUCKING INDUSTRY
With fuel being one of the main things drivers can’t control in the trucking industry, the new reality has some diesel reserve tanks going from $23,000 to fill, to more than $47,500, and that doesn’t even include what drivers will have to pay while on the road. With it already being hard enough to find new drivers, the new rise in diesel prices is hampering the industry like never before. Read more…
TRUCKING INDUSTRY FORCED TO GET CREATIVE
With the truck industry being impacted even before the pandemic began due to “shortages of trained drivers, high turnover rates, and an aging workforce,” and now totalling over 80,000 unfilled driver jobs nationwide, the industry has been forced to think outside the box when it comes to continuing to operate. One example of getting creative is that of companies that are “partnering with local private career education colleges to tap into new talent that’s being trained specifically for careers in trucking.” Read more…
IMPACT OF AUTOMATION ON LONG-HAUL TRUCKING
A new study out of the University of Michigan and Carnegie Melon has found that “up to 94% of operator hours may be impacted if automated trucking technology improves to operate in all weather conditions across the continental United States.” The study goes on to say that the impact may not happen all at once, especially because the technology is still having trouble in inclement weather, and, at first, only “10% of the operator hours will be affected.” Read more…
ECONOMIC INCENTIVES HELPING TO ADD LOGISTIC JOBS IN NORTH CAROLINA
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…
LOGISTIC JOBS COMING TO VIRGINIA
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…
OPPORTUNITIES OPENING IN FASHION’S SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS
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…