Heavy-Truck Orders Explode, Trucking Companies Struggle with “Capacity Crisis,” Truck Makers & Supply Chains are Inundated, Backlog is Ballooning, But it’s a Cyclical Business

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “Fleets are desperate for more equipment, but trucks are in short supply due to the supplier constraints.” Orders for heavy trucks that haul trailers loaded with anything from junk food to oil-field equipment across the US …

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A baby was treated with a nap and a bottle of formula. His parents received an $18,000 bill. An ER patient can be charged thousands of dollars in “trauma fees” — even if they weren’t treated for trauma.

via vox: On the first morning of Jang Yeo-im’s vacation to San Francisco in 2016, her eight-month-old son Park Jeong-whan fell off the bed in the family’s hotel room and hit his head. There was no blood, but the baby …

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Who killed the GE model?

From the Harvard Business Review: Who killed GE? Of course, GE is not dead, and it may well revive and flourish as a company. After all, IBM came back from the dead in the 1990s. But the GE model is dead – and there’s …

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