Shipping and Logistics

September 14, 2017
ATRI: Hurricane Aftermath to Squeeze Truck Capacity
Written by Sandy Williams
Back-to-back hurricanes disrupted trucking in the South, and the effects are expected to linger as the region competes for truck capacity to rebuild damaged homes and infrastructure.
The American Transportation Research Institute uses GPS to track movement of over 700,000 trucks in the U.S. Hurricane Harvey hit international and east/west commerce hard as Houston is a key hub for transportation, said Dan Murray, vice president at ATRI. West of Houston and Corpus Christi is Laredo, Texas, a major border crossing for goods going to and from Mexico.


