Tagged: TruckingTrends

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Demographics Hurting Trucking

Trucks hauled more than 70 percent of freight tonnage in the U.S. last year, generating $676 billion in revenues, according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA). But the industry is grappling with a growing problem…

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Trucks Winning Back Freight From Rail

Last year rail intermodel took away loads from over-the-road trucking, but now the pendulum is swinging back the other direction. Diesel prices are dropping, which makes dry van transportation more attractive and reduces the cost…

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In Future, There Will Be 2 Truck Markets

The global recovery from the economic crisis has major implications for the commercial vehicle and tractor-trailer manufacturing industry. There are, essentially, two worldwide markets for trucks in the near future. The first, in Europe, North America, Japan…

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Global Trends Changing Rules For Trucking

The big drivers of global business have major influence on the commercial vehicle business. Several global-scale trends in particular — related to climate protection, competition for resources, social change and demographic shifts — are fundamentally…

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Trucking revenues hit $670+ billion

Trucking industry revenues in 2016 were $676.2 billion, according to American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) American Trucking Trends, an annual compendium of data about the trucking industry. “The information in Trends highlights exactly what I...

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