Transportation Resources
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Book Review: Trucking Country by Shane Hamilton
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Reviewed by David HC Correll To me, Shane Hamilton’s book, Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy reads like watching a classic horror movie. Before you even begin, you know that the titular monster is coming. And as the movie progresses, you meet new characters and you laugh with them, and you start to […]
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Drilling Deep: Tapping into the brains of a leading college to aid trucking – Podcast withFreightWaves
NEW FreightWaves Podcast featuring FreightLab’s David Correll.
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Event Spotlight: In Search of Alternatives to Truckload’s Fragile Freight Contracts
By Chris Caplice, Ken Cotrill and David Correll When a shipper and a trucking company contract to transport goods at a given time and rate, there is no guarantee they will meet the agreement’s terms. The loads may never materialize or the carrier may not have the capacity in the right place at the needed […]
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MIT FreightLab Q4 2020 Co-Directors’ Letter
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Welcome to the first to be quarterly update from the MIT Freightlab!
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Research Spotlight: PhD Candidate Angela Acocella in Conversation
PhD Candidate Angela Acocella in conversation with MIT FreightLab Co-Director David Correll about her recently published paper, “Elephants or Goldfish: Carrier Reciprocity in Dynamic Freight Markets“. Who are “elephants” and who are “goldfish” in your research? We’re studying long-term interactions between firms, so elephants are those that have long memories; they remember their history. In […]
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FreightLab Book Review: “Sweatshops on Wheels”
BOOK REVIEWSweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking DeregulationBy Michael BelzerOxford University Press (2000)Reviewed by David HC Correll Michael Belzer wants you to know two things about American trucking: (1) it hasn’t always been this way; and (2) it doesn’t have to be this way. In his book, Sweatshops on Wheels – which reads […]
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State of the Art in Transportation Contracts
On November 3 2020, the MIT Freightlab convened an open virtual session entitled, State of the Art in Transportation Contracts”. The goal of the session was to introduce the FreightLab’s 2020-2021 research program, which focuses on innovations that expand the portfolio of contractual forms used in transportation procurement. Dr. Chris Caplice, Dr. David Correll, […]
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Truck Drivers & Blue Collar Nominal Earnings
Does big rig trucking pay more than other freight driving jobs and other “blue-collar” jobs?
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Over-the-road Trucking & High-Turnover
Over-the-road #trucking is an infamously high-turnover industry. Often times turnover meets or exceeds 100%, meaning that trucking companies start each new year with an entirely new set of drivers. This is costly.
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