{"id":3238,"date":"2021-11-17T19:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/supply-chain-delays-disrupting-truck-deliveries-frustrate-carriers-tt\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:43:49","slug":"supply-chain-delays-disrupting-truck-deliveries-frustrate-carriers-tt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/supply-chain-delays-disrupting-truck-deliveries-frustrate-carriers-tt\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply Chain Delays Disrupting Truck Deliveries, Frustrate Carriers: TT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Truck buyers, large and small fleets included, are becoming increasingly frustrated over the supply chain challenges facing all truck makers, primarily as a result of a global semiconductor shortage, reports James Menzies of\u00a0Today\u2019s Trucking<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been challenging from a business planning perspective,\u201d a frustrated Mike Crough of \u00a0Ennismore, Ont.-based arborist Treescape Canada, told\u00a0TT<\/em>. \u00a0Crough made a major investment in a $600,000 Mack TerraPro, which was supposed to arrive in April, but has since been delayed because of worldwide supply shortages.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are constantly pricing work for this truck and being cautionary with regards to what we promise. But even our cautionary approach has had us farming out some of the work we received to competitors or bringing in subcontractors to do the work, because we have to take care of the customer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alain Bedard, chairman and CEO of Canada\u2019s largest fleet, TFI International, voiced his displeasure with the supply chain crunch to analysts during a call to discuss third quarter earnings.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaintenance costs are creeping up,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause we don\u2019t have the equipment we need to bring those costs down.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said TFI International wanted 1,000 trucks for its U.S. LTL division, but has only been promised 500 through the first quarter of next year. It wanted 3,000 in total for truckload and LTL operations in the U.S., and only received commitments for 2,000. He was promised 165 trucks by the end of October but only about 100 arrived.<\/p>\n

Said Titanium Transportation CEO Ted Daniel:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t call up your Class 8 truck supplier and say \u2018I want 200 trucks next year\u2019 and they\u2019re going to deliver them to you ahead of schedule,\u201d he acknowledged. \u201cThey\u2019re going to tell you \u2018That\u2019s great, now let me figure out if you\u2019re going to get 100, 120, or 80 of these 200 you require\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said one trailer manufacturer recently told him it had more than 5,000 orders in the queue and will only be able to deliver 1,000 to 1,500.<\/p>\n

Fleets unable to procure new iron are seeing maintenance costs climb as they extend trade cycles.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur fleet is aging quicker than we\u2019d like, because we can\u2019t find the equipment we need,\u201d said Titanium chief financial officer Alex Fu on a call with analysts. \u201cWe are keeping trucks and trailers on the road longer than expected. It is a cost of running the business right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are few short-term solutions. Used truck prices have spiked and inventories are depleted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of [unfinished] trucks parked,\u201d John O\u2019Leary, CEO of DTNA told a group of trucking journalists Nov. 11. \u201cI can\u2019t disclose the figure but it\u2019s a big number. We could\u2019ve shut down and not built those trucks and we would\u2019ve saved a lot of money in cash tied up in balance sheets and the logistics costs of keeping plants open building vehicles we can\u2019t deliver, but we made the conscious effort to build those trucks so that when we do get one or two chips, which is all we are missing, we can immediately turn them over into a sold status and get them to the customer. We feel it\u2019s the best thing we can do for customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Leary said an effort is also being put forth to be transparent and honest with customers about delivery timelines.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe try to tell them the absolute truth,\u201d he said. \u201cThe easiest thing in the world is to tell them \u2018I\u2019ll be able to put in the order, and in six months you\u2019ll get your truck.\u2019 If I know that to be the truth, I\u2019ll tell them that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Full Today\u2019s Trucking article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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