High demand in US road haulage sector raises costs for metals industry

摘要

The tightness in the road haulage in the United States is unlikely to ease before the end of the year, indicating that the elevated costs being seen in the metals industry will probably continue for the foreseeable future, according to industry experts."We're right at 100% utilization. Maybe by the end of year it'll drop to 97% or 96%, but that's still very hot compared with the past three or four years," FTR Transportation Intelligence's vice president of trucking research, Avery Vise, has told American Metal Market.