* The US has 95% utilisation leaving limited elasticity.
* UK pallets are 22.5% smaller than those used in the US.
= Less drivers more load
= Higher Covid impact
How about I don't do journalism or economics and journalists and the economists stop trying to do industry analysis?
* UK pallets are 22.5% smaller than those used in the US.
= Less drivers more load
= Higher Covid impact
How about I don't do journalism or economics and journalists and the economists stop trying to do industry analysis?
https://twitter.com/CitySamuel/status/1443936078554189833
They also have drop trailer strategies which allows them to work on even less drivers, which we don't have in the UK because our freight industry is slanted to smaller carriers.
In short, do they want to talk about why the US has shortages and how they are different to the reasons that the UK has shortages, or were they trying to find anything they can point to that would muddy the waters.
Because, quite frankly, they don't seem to be pointing out the differences.
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