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Truck transport industry in the USA: challenges and likely disruptions

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  • Amulya Gurtu

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This study presents challenges and likely disruptive changes in the US trucking/logistics industry in the next decade and how these challenges and disruption might affect supply chain management, logistics management, and truck transport industries in the USA. This is a qualitative study based on interviews with senior executives from big transport organisations. The shortage of drivers and capacity constraints precipitated to be the main challenges, and blockchain technology is likely to be a disruptive technology. There seems to be a consensus among the executives interviewed on the use of fully autonomous Class-8 trucks (semi) on highways and city roads that it is too far in the future. The study is limited to the interviews of eight senior executives from four big transport organisations.

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  • Amulya Gurtu, 2023. "Truck transport industry in the USA: challenges and likely disruptions," International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 44(1), pages 46-58.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijlsma:v:44:y:2023:i:1:p:46-58
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