Chris Preboth | Source | Vice President - Logistics at Shipwell
Chris Preboth
Chris is the Vice President of Logistics at Shipwell. Chris is helping lead the evolution of transportation and supply chains. He is skilled in leadership, account management, sales management, sales, supply chain.
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Shipwell
Vice President - Logistics
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Vaccine mandate, port backlog collide with peak shipping
This year has been a challenge for shippers, with the number of loads to available drivers hovering at about a 6:1 ratio, and skyrocketing the closer you get to a port. Read CCJ for more.
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I've read a couple of times where the industry is somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 long haul for-hire drivers short, and it could be more now, but we can't just go hire that many drivers," he added. "And that doesn't even account for the warehousing and the office people that they're still short, too. So, we would have to see something hit demand pretty drastically for supply and demand to get a little bit closer together – to get back to what we would say is a normal load to truck ratio where things are moving pretty seamlessly.
