Frightening Freight

Frightening Freight

ByAndrew Lisa

America’s 3.5 million truck drivers move 10.5 billion tons of freight every year, a full 71 percent of everything shipped from one place to another within the United States. Even still, America’s businesses are reeling from a massive trucker shortage. According to The Washington Post,  50,000 new drivers would be needed to satisfy the current…

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SR Panel: Freight

ByEditorial Staff

Doug RobinsonOwner, Virginia LeisureChesapeake, Virginia   Prices are going up quickly. I sell four manufacturers’ hot tubs, and two of the four have had significant [freight] price increases. That makes it even more imperative that when we buy spas, we buy them by the truckload. If we buy them half truck and send them LTL…