US truck capacity tightness drives inland port, barge innovation

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US truck capacity tightness drives inland port, barge innovation

| Sep 07, 2018 1:18PM EDT
An axiom argues, “Necessity is the mother of invention,” and there’s no better example of that than what tight North American truck capacity has prompted.
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