C.H. Robinson's Robert Biesterfeld said Wednesday immigration could help alleviate truck driver shortages that have increased 30% since before the pandemic.
have been using or planning to use their newfound leverage to demand better working conditions.
Immigration could help fix the trucker shortage now, but to avoid future shortages, self-driving or autonomous trucks may become more mainstream, Biesterfeld said. "We certainly think that there will be a more autonomous future in trucking. ... We tend to think that that's a bit further out into the future but we'll be ready for that as an organization.
"We've still got to deal with shortage of chassis that exist in the port, the availability of drainage capacity to go in and pick up those containers and then ... we have to get capacity into the network to move them out of the ports," he said. "I do think we're going to continue to see these delays over the course of the next several months."
C.H. Robinson, with a stock market value of nearly $12.9 billion, closed roughly 0.9% lower Wednesday. The company on Tuesday
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