The yearly turnover rate among long-haul truckers is 94 percent. And you wonder why you’re not getting your orders on time?
Transportation
Posted inEconomic Policy
How America’s Supply Chains Got Railroaded
Rail deregulation led to consolidation, price-gouging, and a variant of just-in-time unloading that left no slack in the system.
Posted inHousing
Want Affordable Housing? Strengthen Regional Governments.
Most Americans live in metropolitan areas, and it takes a metropolitan regional government to coordinate the growth in housing, transit, and employment that makes the region livable.
Posted inEconomic Policy
We Were Warned About the Ports
A 2015 federal report predicted the entire slowdown that’s come to pass.
Posted inWorking in America
‘Trucking Action Plan’ Missing in Action
The White House effort on trucking is too focused on finding more drivers and not focused enough on making trucking jobs better.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Those Electrifying Speculators
Electric-vehicle companies, often raising capital through dubious mergers, have a problem with the truth, and it’s a problem for all of us on this planet.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Flying Blind
The fatal fragmentation of private information in the global supply chain system
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Incoherence of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
It reserves money for climate adaptation measures, but lets states use a much larger pot of money to build whatever they want.
Posted inTransportation
As Buttigieg Eyes a Presidential Run, His DOT Is Floundering
The transportation secretary has a major role to play in easing the supply chain crisis. Pete Buttigieg isn’t doing the job.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Job Gets a Foreman
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is Biden’s pick to make sure the project rolls out as intended.