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The Trucking Cares Foundation is exploring ways it can help remedy the extended shortage of truck drivers, technicians and warehouse workers in transportation.

Inside an expansive and noisy distribution center just east of Atlanta, 91ÊÓƵ Depot Inc. is trying to solve a problem that’s plaguing its stores: large orders from pro shoppers.

Truck drivers have distinct reasons for choosing between driving for a company or remaining independent, a new report by the American Transportation Research Institute shows.

Logistics provider GXO Logistics Inc. and Beachbody Co.’s MYXfitness announced Dec. 2 they are working to open an Atlanta-based distribution center to help meet growing e-commerce demand.

Dezjion Henson has wanted to be a truck driver his whole life. When he turned 18 last year, he jumped at the chance and signed on as an apprentice with Total Transportation of Mississippi in Richland.

Ocean freight rates on goods shipped to both U.S. coasts from Asia fell to the lowest levels since July, reflecting an easing of supply strains after the pre-holiday shipping frenzy that fanned inflation fears in the world’s largest economy.

France will exempt truck drivers from the latest requirement requiring a COVID-19 test to enter the country in order to avoid long lines of trucks like the ones seen late last year in Kent in the United Kingdom.

The record volume of cargo moving through the busiest U.S. port complex is likely to continue amid high consumer demand for goods, the head of the Port of Long Beach said.

Three core economic sectors of trucking are showing strength, but disruption from the omicron variant of the coronavirus hangs over the industry as it heads into 2022, American Trucking Associations Chief Economist Bob Costello said.