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While trucks are prioritizing the hauling of essential goods to Americans, shipments of fashion footwear are grinding to a near halt, after retailers closed brick-and-mortar shops to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), three supply chain executives told JOC.com Thursday.The deprioritization of footwear is an example of how fragmented the freight market is during this health crisis, and the woes of fashion shippers sends a warning to other cargo owners of non-essential goods looking for truck capacity. Truck demand is soaring to transport food and medicine but plummeting for non-essential items, a dynamic poised to ripple back...

While truck activity is rampant for essential goods, US fashion footwear freight movement is slowing to a halt as department stores shut down, according to supply chain executives.

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