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原文传递 Top 50 Trucking Companies: The STRONG get STRONGER

题名：	Top 50 Trucking Companies: The STRONG get STRONGER
正文语种：	eng
作者：	JOHN D. SCHULZ
摘要：	It has been a 12-month period like no other. However, to the best operators in the trucking industry, leading executives say the effect of the worldwide pandemic has been, in the word of Pitt Ohio president Chuck Hammel, "transformative." Transformative, that is, if you survived. Some 3,140 fleets did not, and were forced to shut down over the past year. That's a 185% jump from 2019, according to Donald Brough-ton, principal of data firm Broughton Capital. Roughly half the 2020 failures came in the second quarter, when freight volumes plummeted amid widespread shutdowns aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19. Big decisions about staffing and productivity had to be made on the fly, and nobody could foresee what the future would hold-not even over the course of the coming week, much less the next quarter. "In my 33 years in this industry, this was by far the most unusual situation we've ever faced," says Mark Rourke, president and CEO of Schneider, the nation's 2nd-largest TL carrier. "Were accustomed to going through cycles, but to bounce from a material freight recession in the second quarter and then flip it completely in the third quarter-plus all the unknowns-was incredible."
出版年：	2021
期刊名称：	Logistics Management
卷：	60
期：	4