Assessing the Intersection of Freight Transportation and Economic Indicators
In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Dr. Jason Miller, PhD., Associate Professor of Logistics at Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business.
During this podcast, Dr. Jason Miller talked about the current state of the freight transportation market, with a focus on truckload activity.
Themes focused on over the course of this podcast included: economic indicators to track supply and demand and to also track prices, as well as the spot market and contract rate environments. Other subjects addressed included: the current state of inventories; the driver outlook; and the intermodal market conditions related to truckoad, among others.
Dr. Miller mainly studies topics in the for-hire motor carrier industry including safety, productivity/efficiency, pricing dynamics, and driver turnover. He completed his PhD. in Business Administration, with a concentration in logistics and a minor in quantitative psychology from The Ohio State University in 2014.
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