Evening Edition: Truck Driver Shortage Worsens Supply Chain Problems

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Even before COVID-19 began there was a shortage of truck drivers in the United States and with the lack of training during the pandemic the situation has gotten worse. Issues of unloading container ships remains a major problem but the issue of getting goods to consumers starts with a shortage of trucks transporting those goods. FOX's John Saucier speaks to Professor Ed Anderson, at the McCombs School of Business, about some of the root causes of the supply chain issues and what we should expect approaching the holiday shopping season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	I'm Stuart Vani. I'm Martha McCallum.
0:32.0	I'm Jason Chaffetz, and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:35.0	Tuesday, October 19th, 2021. I'm John Saussier. Look at this, we're approaching the second half of October
0:46.3	already and another day closer to the holiday season. Have you done any shopping yet?
0:51.6	This holiday shopping season could be especially difficult for consumers
0:54.6	because products are scarce thanks to an ongoing supply chain problem in this country.
0:59.3	There are more goods that want to go across the ocean then can actually be moved and so what's happened
1:05.8	is shipping costs have gone up for any given product by a factor of 8 to 10 times
1:12.3	versus pre-COVID.
1:13.4	This is the Fox News rundown, Evening Edition.
1:17.0	This coronavirus has had an untold number of unexpected consequences and we're
1:26.0	dealing with one of them right now a global supply chain crisis. There isn't any one
1:30.2	issue causing it but a perfect storm of multiple issues delaying products
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