September 14, 2021

“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.”

– Sir Claus Moser, British statistician

Toyota, Honda Oppose US Plan to Give $4,500 Tax Incentive For Electric Vehicles (ibtimes.sg)

3 Easy Ways to Improve Fleet Cybersecurity - Fleet Management - Trucking Info

Half of U.S. Small Businesses Have Unfilled Positions (yahoo.com)

How Biden's vaccine mandate could impact owner-ops, independents | Overdrive (overdriveonline.com)

How Quantum Computing Might Transform Future Supply Chains – All Things Supply Chain

How to Use Social Proof to Grow Your Business - Small Business Trends (smallbiztrends.com)

Investment, diversification and excess capacity critical to keeping the US’ global supply chain cost effective and secure | Reuters Events | Supply Chain & Logistics Business Intelligence

Staying on trend: interview with Torsten Mueller | DC Velocity

Starting a Business? Get Familiar With the 3 Most Common Entity Types. (msn.com)

Nearly 80% of drivers are still struggling to find food OTR, poll reveals (cdllife.com)

National Truck Driver Appreciation Week: Sammy Lloyd - DAT

Paint is getting costlier and harder to find, and this could be just the beginning (cnbc.com)

Assume that both are true | Seth's Blog (seths.blog)

What the Clean Label Trend Means for 3PLs | Food Logistics

Long Beach port offers drivers traffic alerts via text to fight congestion | Transport Dive

Biden's vaccine mandate for America's businesses is outrageous big government overreach | Fox Business

Consumers Are Out for ‘Revenge.’ How Should Retailers and Suppliers Respond? | SupplyChainBrain

Combating Labor Shortages with Automated Warehouse Solutions | Material Handling and Logistics (mhlnews.com)

FMC picks 24 shippers to advise it on container issues | Supply Chain Dive

Manufacturers, retailers face price hikes on high transport costs: Expert (cnbc.com)

Large fleet raises pay for independent contractors | Commercial Carrier Journal (ccjdigital.com)

Kansas City Southern to accept CP Rail offer, rebuffing CN | AJOT.COM

Trade groups offer cautious support for requirement to vaccinate or test, but warn on additional costs | DC Velocity

Vehicle miles traveled pilot program extension in California (landline.media)

Consumer CEOs have many questions about Biden's vaccine order - CNN

Trucking org pushes back on 'discriminatory' vaccine mandate | Commercial Carrier Journal (ccjdigital.com)

Fleet Breakdown Frequency Improving; Parts, Labor Costs Increasing - Maintenance - Trucking Info

Some businesses welcome Biden's vaccination mandate while others worry about the costs, effects on worker shortages (yahoo.com)

Small businesses struggle amid pandemic-related headwinds | DC Velocity

Old Dominion update indicates LTL is off like a rocket in Q3 | Transport Dive

The World’s Shippers Are Earning the Most Money Since 2008 | 2021-09-13 | SupplyChainBrain

US moves toward ending steel-tariff fight with offer to EU | AJOT.COM

UPS wades into same-day delivery with Roadie acquisition | Supply Chain Dive

Shipping options dry up as businesses try to rebuild from pandemic | Fox Business

Automotive Chip Shortage Byproduct of ‘Perfect Storm’ (iotworldtoday.com)

No truck parking funding in T&I bill; OOIDA pushes for amendment (landline.media)

Shanghai Halts Some Port Operations and Flights on Typhoon | 2021-09-13 | SupplyChainBrain