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Apparel Logistics & the Impact of America's Trucking Shortage

Apparel Logistics

For apparel manufacturers, there's a new challenge undermining the all-important speed-to-market and posing new fashion logistics obstacles. According to USA Today : A worsening shortage of truck drivers is pushing up freight rates and delaying some deliveries, defying the weak economy, high unemployment and falling gasoline prices. "It's getting harder to get drivers," says Mike Card, president of Combined Transport of Central Point, Ore., and incoming chairman of the American Trucking