“Post pandemic, there has been a surplus of trucks and drivers compared to the amount of freight that needs transporting. As lockdown spending slowed and the cost of living continues to rise, more truckers are fighting for the same loads, which results in a “dogfight” between truckers and trucking companies, JKC Trucking Vice-President and Co-Owner Mike Kucharski told Fox News Digital.”
“Everybody’s calling this the great trucking recession, and it’s true because all the trucking companies right now are in dark times,” he said. “This is not a good time to be in the trucking industry. Just to paint a picture, the trucking industry is the engine that drives the American economy forward. We’re fueling growth [and] prosperity by transporting goods to where they need to be and when the engine breaks down or stops, it works like a heart. When that ceases to be, it brings the entire economic system to a halt.”
“Yellow Corporation, for example, which is one of the nation’s oldest and largest trucking companies, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August, laying off 30,000 employees. Convoy Inc., a Seattle-based trucking startup that was valued by investors at $3.8 billion just last year, shut down last month.”
The upside: people buying less cheap chynah products.
Another upside: a less commercialized holiday season.
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My pallets loads aren’t getting any cheaper though. Maybe their load proces should drop and inwould order more stuff more often. As it is I make due with more local items
There are too many trucking companies.
The weak struggle and die and their betters survive and grow.
Truck recession can have a profound effect on the American food shopper because grocery stores have only a 24 hour inventory of food stocks. Grocery stores are serviced primarily by trucks,,,,people may go hungry.
As lockdown spending slowed and the cost of living continues to rise, more truckers are fighting for the same loads, which results in a “dogfight” between truckers and trucking companies, JKC Trucking Vice-President and Co-Owner Mike Kucharski told Fox News Digital.
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With all due respect to Mr. Kucharski, I disagree. My company has used “truckers” in 2023 approximately 300 times. Our experience is highlighted by INCOMPETENT people manning the trucking companies telephones. Initial rate quotes often are several times what they ultimately agree to. Phone calls are returned “days” later rather than hours or minutes. Many times phone calls are not returned at all. Email inquiries are frequently ignored all together. With a few exceptions, the “attitudes” of their telephone operators are frequently arrogant and in too many cases, for lack of a better phrase......”they just don’t give a shit!”
I believe Mr. Kucharski is covering, or attempting to, for general mismanagement and lack of training by trucking executives which translates into a “give a shit attitude” by their order takers with their telephone customers. Most likely, the “trucking industry” needs a cut in executive bonuses and increased pay for telephone personnel (order takers) are what is needed.
Really? So why are the Interstates so full of trucks and most of them have signs on the back trying to recruit drivers?
Truckers are the lifeblood of the country. And people will find that out the hard way very soon.