Global Economic and Logistics Trends

• Rapid growth in business services and high-tech manufacturing

• Rapid growth in international trade

• Competition on the basis of cost, quality, and time

• Outsourcing

• Geographic dispersion of production

• Just-in-time inventory management

• More frequent, lengthy, and high-value shipments

• Greater sensitivity to travel and delivery times

• Cost competition

Global Economic Change

Changing Business

Logistics Practices

New Pressures for

Motor Carriers

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