Technology comes through in the clutch for trucking firms
John Taylor, chair of the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management in the WSU School of Business Administration, was quoted in a Crain’s Detroit Business article about last week’s flood, the impact it had on trucking/shipping, infrastructure and how technology helped lessen the impact. "The condition and readiness of underpass pumps is not high," Taylor said. Worse, the local highway system's chronic bottlenecks, bad rush-hour situation, and lack of transportation investment "cause planners to have to assume longer cycle times and deploy more trucks," he said.
