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{"text":"One of America's enduring folk heroes is the trucker, a heroic and solitary entrepreneur plying the highways and byways, braving weather and fatigue to make deliveries.\n\n\nIn reality, that truck driver is often a struggling small business owner, driving an empty truck nearly half the time, fighting to find business and figuring out the most economical route to the next destination.\n\n\nTrucking is a huge business, generating $260 billion in revenue in the US, 20% of a global total of $1.2 trillion, according to McKinsey & Co. Trucks deliver two-thirds of all products shipped each year, but the business is highly fragmented, With the average US trucking company owning three trucks or less. The process of getting a package from factory to distributor to customer can be fiendishly complicated, involving up to a dozen companies and a bewildering mixture of paper and digital documents.\n\n\nRead more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/15/convoy-flexport-automating-the-shipping-industry.html ","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[]","canComment":true} |
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