Business View Magazine l January 2023

86 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 Rising fuel costs and a shortage of skilled laborers and drivers have added to supply chain complications within the transportation logistics field. While a shortage of trucks and parts is hard to completely overcome, Dart has utilized its strong network connections and OEM and carrier partners like Paccar and Freightliner to identify options. “We couldn’t be successful without these partners, and really rely on them to help when times are tough,”Cafarelli says. take long for the supply chain to back up in 2020. Initially, the biggest impact was the sparse supply of new commercial trucks. It is the main reason why Dart’s fleet of company-owned trucks fell by 40-50 percent from 2019-2022, says Cafarelli. Yet it’s not just a truck shortage but a parts shortage that has challenged Dart and the entire industry in the last two years. “It was getting easier to find parts for a while, but lag time is becoming an issue again,” he says. “There’s no easy solution out there.”