trucking

As baby boomers in blue-collar professions retire, labor shortages are growing in industries like construction, trucking and manufacturing.

Next year, new federal restrictions on commercial driver’s licenses for non-U.S. citizens could cut trucking capacity and lift prices.

This year, he’s trucking them to a soybean crushing plant—where the beans are ground into oil and meal for livestock feed—but has been frustrated by the prices being lower than he’d prefer.

He adds that he does not aim to replace freight locomotives, but rather to offer a rail-based delivery service that could compete with trucking.

See trucking company Yellow Corp., which filed for bankruptcy in 2023 in part owing to Mr. O’Brien’s labor militancy.