Less-than-truckload transportation makes up a great deal of the vehicles on the road delivering essential goods to where they need to be. Since the COVID-19 crises kicked in, supply chains all over the world have come to a standstill – but in most parts of the world, restrictions are being relaxed and we’re getting a little closer to business as usual.
We don’t know precisely how the Covid-19 crisis is going to affect the economy in the long term. This is unprecedented: even though we have had pandemics before, there has been nothing to this global scale since the new economy.
But there is one thing we do know: the economy is not going to be the same again.
We live on the precipice of huge change. The rate of technological development is beginning to outpace our ability to measure or predict it, and very soon we might reach the point of no return: the singularity. This is the point at which technology becomes self-perpetuating. Where new breakthroughs and developments come at an increasingly fast pace, such that the world as we know it is completely transformed.
It takes a lot of work to run an e-commerce business, which is something that you likely already know. To be successful you have to market and sell the products and then once the orders come in, you then have to turn around and get them out the door as fast as possible. Fulfilling these orders requires time, patience, and attention to detail.
