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Eight owner-operator takeaways from a trucking economist’s talk

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Updated Mar 13, 2016

John Larkin covered lots of trends, trucking and otherwise, this week at the annual meeting of the Truckload Carriers Association in Las Vegas. As managing director and head of transportation capital markets research for Stifel, Nicolaus and Co., he’s got a good vantage point on forces affecting the industry.

Here are some points he made, plus my take on how they could have some bearing on owner-operators, especially independents:

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