Supply-Chain Disruption Hits Production of Trailers Required to Haul Goods

Parts and labor shortages are crimping production at truck-trailer factories, undermining trucking companies’ efforts to expand capacity in a constrained freight transport market. According to transportation data provider ACT Research, manufacturers produced 25% more dry vans—the most common type of semitrailer used to haul goods—in 2019 than they do now, and industry turnaround times for… Continue reading Supply-Chain Disruption Hits Production of Trailers Required to Haul Goods