U.s. truckers strike 202212/9/2023 ![]() A full-on strike would be a different story, though, and would be a polar vortex-level shock to capacity across the entire truckload freight market. ![]() "Today, demand is softer and the spot market is even more oversupplied with trucks. At that time the effect on the spot market was negligible because contract carriers had plenty of capacity to absorb extra volume from shippers concerned about a strike," Dean Croke, principal industry analyst, DAT Freight & Analytics, said of the next two weeks ahead of a potential strike. “I would expect conditions similar to what we saw in September. Shippers and their carriers/logistics partners are generally more prepared with contingency plans this time around despite skepticism that Congress would allow any type of disruption. This after 50,000 Canadian truck drivers formed a 45 mile convoy to Ottawa this week to protest the government’s vaccine mandate. 15 strike deadline, railroads began to deny service for perishable freight, hazardous materials and other types of cargo they didn’t want sitting unattended in the event of a work stoppage – clues that triggered a lot of calls to for-hire carriers and freight brokers, according to DAT. EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) Truckers in the United States are getting ready to follow the lead of their Canadian counterparts and form a convoy that will travel from California to Washington D.C. "UPS is a huge user of intermodal freight, so I could see many holiday presents getting snarled up in a strike." "Biggest change with a December date is Christmas presents," Miller added. When a strike seemed imminent in September, there was much concern that its impact could be disastrous for holiday shoppers, but the eight industries with the most reliance on rail transportation on a ton-mile basis are coal mining chemical manufacturing farm product raw material wholesalers (firms that are selling corn, soybeans, etc.) and food manufacturing – "something that hasn't received as much attention as it likely deserves," said Jason Miller, Interim Chairperson and Associate Professor of Logistics in the Department of Supply Chain Management at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. The 2017 Commodity Flow Survey shows the 8 industries most reliance on rail transportation on a ton-mile basis. ![]() would need more than 460,000 additional long-haul trucks every day to offset the idling 7,000 long distance daily freight trains, "which is not possible.," ATA President and CEO Chris Spear said in September. To offset the loss of freight flow from a rail strike, American Trucking Associations estimates the U.S. 26, 2022 A caravan of truckers that left California for Washington, D.C., on Friday to protest coronavirus mandates arrived in Las Vegas early Saturday with only five trucks in its ranks. The bigger picture: The demonstrations began in opposition to vaccination mandates for truckers crossing the U.S.-Canada border but now the focus has shifted to COVID-19 measures imposed across the country, as Ottawa declares a state of emergency.Operating over a nearly 140,000-mile network in 49 states, the Association of American Railroads projects lost economic output due to a national rail shutdown could be more than $2 billion per day. Ron DeSantis and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, as I previously wrote for Deseret News. This is just another wrench in the industry that we’re dealing with right now.”įlashback: The truck driver/protesters and their supporters, who call themselves the “Freedom Convoy,” recently won the support of Republican politicians like former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. “We’re still dealing with parts shortages in general and supply chain issues. Why it matters: Jeff Schuster, president of the LMC Automotive consulting firm in Troy, Michigan, said: “Everything is so ‘just-in-time’ these days,” he said. ![]() This is really a serious cause for concern,” he said.
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