inflation
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Trucking Risk & Compliance
Trucking braces for uphill cost climb in 2022
Trucking companies received an unexpected boost to their income statements in 2020 but inflation clouds loom.
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Equipment
Higher and higher: Used truck price inflation shows no signs of abating
Fleets and individual truckers buying at today’s elevated prices assume a big risk when the used equipment market normalizes.
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Air Cargo
Exorbitant ocean rates, need for speed give air cargo an edge
Air cargo is typically unaffordable for most shippers. With ocean rates off the charts, air doesn’t look so bad. If you can find a booking,…
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American Shipper
Are historically high shipping rates causing consumer price inflation?
Media coverage increasingly links consumer price inflation to container shipping and supply chain chaos.
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Truckload Indexes
‘As I See It’ from the Trucking Activist: Unavailability
The federal government needs to focus on filling the millions of jobs available today. The trucking industry has great paying jobs with training available, job…
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Infographics
Daily Infographic: How air bags work
From 1987 to 2017, frontal air bags saved 50,457 U.S. lives.
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Analysis
Will high freight rates cause hyperinflation?
FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller analyzes inflation in the supply chain.
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Supply Chains
Rent-a-ship: Costco hires vessels for urgent deliveries
Costco is going boating. Unwilling to wait for space on commercial vessels, it is now renting its own ships to haul exports from Asia.
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Infographics
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News
Shipper to Congress: Inflation ‘rampant’ through supply chain
Supply chain bottlenecks are raising red flags for inflation down the road.
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