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Oct 14, 2015

TRUCKERS' SHORTAGE SOLUTIONS * USA: Over next five years plan to help mitigate it

* Arizona - Collaboration viewed as way to combat driver shortage

-- Driver shortage increases by 27%, according to ATA... More sharing of capacity and joint development of economies of scale expected among shippers, 3PLs, brokers and motor carriers over next five years to help mitigate capacity issues due to lack of drivers... In order to gain more supply chain efficiencies and cost savings in an increasingly tight truck capacity environment driven by a growing shortage of drivers, more “collaborative” relationships are expected to be formed between shippers, third party logistics (3PL) providers, freight brokers and motor carriers over the next five years – even among erstwhile competitors, according to several industry observers, said Scott Trainor, senior manager-global marketing at APL Logistics... Years ago, he said, logistics was a matter of delivering the right product to the right place at the right time and in the right condition... “Today, though, you also have to add ‘via the right sales channel’ and ‘at the lowest possible price,’ to that description,” Trainor emphasized... “Today’s customers expect considerably faster, more agile and more multi-faceted service … even smaller, more frequent deliveries. In addition, many consumers are beginning to consider same-day delivery something that every company should be able to do,” he noted... 
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