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State of Logistics 2016: Pursue mutual benefit Early comments suggest infrastructure could be a key part of Trump’s plan Transport leaders begin meeting with Trump transition team as new era starts Holiday season shipment growth is intact, according to Port Tracker report Download the full 2016 Modern Materials Handling Salary Survey More News Without getting too deep into specifics, considering that Election Day was only two days ago, it stands to reason that with the election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States, effective in January, interesting and different times are coming. As things pertain to freight transportation, supply chain, and logistics, there are a plethora of things to keep a watchful eye one, including: global trade and trade agreements; foreign policy in the way of tariffs and collaboration with our trade partners; the regulatory impact in regards to potential rollbacks of existing regulations (especially those focused on motor carriers); climate change, and many others. While it is far too early to gauge how things play out of which direction things go in, one underlying theme since the ballots were officially tallied late Tuesday night and into early Wednesday morning has been the potential for a renewed push for a national infrastructure plan. Again, it is too early, but it is encouraging at the very least, regardless of your political preferences, to at least hear about infrastructure as something that could be acted on closer to the near-term than the long-term. Before looking at some of the comments made, it needs to be made clear that while the current infrastructure efforts coming out of Washington are far from perfect, they are not 100 percent flawed either. Why? Well, in recent years freight has gotten a bit of a more important seat at the table, rather […]