WSJ: Trucking Companies Try New Approach at Congested California Ports

Trucking Companies Try New Approach at Congested California Ports

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LOS ANGELES—A handful of companies are betting the days of truck drivers owning their own vehicles is coming to an end.


Operating primarily in Southern California, the firms are buying trucks and employing drivers full time to haul goods the short distance between ports and nearby rail yards and warehouses, a key link in the national supply chain known as drayage trucking.