Smaller firms are showing lower turnover than large firms. What does that mean? I think drivers value the ability to have a say, and they’re not getting it in the large firms.
Data issued by the American Trucking Associations today shows that the annualized driver turnover rates at large truckload fleets remains high.
Source: Truckload Carrier Driver Turnover Rate Heads Up – Supply Chain 24/7
Here is the report.
ATAs_Driver_Shortage_Report_2015
Trucking can use a new image. It’s too easy to blame those at the bottom of the supply chain for ills caused by inattention at the top.
A new trucking advocacy group is trying to buff up and modernize the image of the 7 million Americans involving in the domestic trucking industry.
Source: Putting a New Face on the Trucking Industry – Supply Chain 24/7
Guess it will be a while till the biggest ships get to New York from the Panama Canal. Now 2019, reportedly.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday announced a revised timeline for completing the raising of the road deck of the Bayonne Bridge between Staten Island
Source: Bayonne Bridge road deck raising project delayed | AS Daily Newsletter | AS Daily | American Shipper
Here is the original 2012 report from PONY.
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