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In a sign of the times, the president of a prominent industry group has gone on record stating that the nation's shippers would be willing to accept higher fees or taxes to help finance badly needed improvements to the nation's infrastructure.
Susan Rider was running an ad agency when a fortuitous conversation with a banker changed the course of her career. What followed was a curious journey that has taken her to the top of the supply chain profession.
As of this mid-December writing, 40,000 Teamsters working at YRC Worldwide's four trucking units were voting on wage concessions their leaders had negotiated with YRC management.
It's been about four months since it first became painfully obvious that the global economy hadn't just started sliding downhill, it had essentially fallen through a metaphorical trapdoor.
If factories aren't manufacturing, it stands to reason that they no longer need the raw materials like scrap metal they ordered from overseas suppliers.