Younger truck drivers could be key to driving down shipping rates

By Diana Stancy Correll

Published June 5, 2018 4:00am ET

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Younger truck drivers could be key to driving down shipping rates — If you feel like you’re spending too much money to ship packages, two organizations think they have the solution: Younger truck drivers and bigger trailers. Consumers are feeling the weight of increased shipping costs as more than 100 million Amazon Prime subscribers were hit with a 20 percent increase to their annual membership in April. […]

If you feel like you’re spending too much money to ship packages, two organizations think they have the solution: Younger truck drivers and bigger trailers.

Consumers are feeling the weight of increased shipping costs as more than 100 million Amazon Prime subscribers were hit with a 20 percent increase to their annual membership in April.

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