{"id":6116,"date":"2021-08-19T21:20:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=6116"},"modified":"2021-08-19T21:20:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:20:38","slug":"2-challenges-facing-the-trucking-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/2-challenges-facing-the-trucking-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Challenges Facing The Trucking Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The trucking industry has entered a historically strong business environment, but trucking companies continue to face some persistent headwinds: Recruit enough professional <a href=\"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\">truck <\/a>drivers and infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the shortage increasing driver pay, it can have a significant impact on supplier costs and therefore consumer pricing. It can also increase shipping delays and shortage at stores<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trucking companies will need to find ways to entice more workers to become professional truck drivers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of truckers say that they get held up by poor road conditions every day or a few times a week which increases maintenance costs resulting in declining margins for owner-operators. Local and city roads that need pothole repair, resurfacing and leveling are costing truckers a lot of extra money in additional vehicle operating costs such as fuel consumption, tire wear, and deterioration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of the infrastructure of the United States\u2014including its roadways\u2014is long overdue for overhaul and upgrading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For truckers, who spend most of their working lives on the road, the issue is especially critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infrastructure-related delays such as congestion, road closures, and deferred road maintenance present unique challenges that often require team drivers to ensure on-time delivery, this increases the cost to move the load itself and is ultimately passed on to the consumer and taxpayer at the point of sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growth + Change = Opportunity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trucking industry has entered a historically strong business environment, but trucking companies continue to face some persistent headwinds: Recruit enough professional truck drivers and infrastructure. With the shortage increasing driver pay, it can have a significant impact on supplier costs and therefore consumer pricing. It can also increase shipping delays and shortage at stores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6118,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions\/6118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}