Aaron Terrazas

Aaron Terrazas is Director of Economic Research at the Convoy company. Previously, he was an economist at the real estate platform Zillow, and at the U.S. Treasury Department. He was educated at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University.

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Three common fallacies in popular 'driver shortage' arguments

The conversation around shortages suffers from incomplete information, short-/long-term conflation and misunderstandings of economics. Stressing out over shortages is a losing game -- innovate to increase your own productivity to win.

December 7, 2021

convoy truck driver counts have recovered but ind. payrolls lag graph

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Don't let the push toward electric powertrains turn into a 'green monopoly'

Op-ed contributor Aaron Terrazas: In societal quest for fewer emissions, "unless we make a conscious effort to ensure that green trucking tech is available to smaller trucking firms, any green freight revolution risks slipping toward a green monopoly."

March 17, 2021

Convoy truck fuel economy graph from 1970 to 2018 for heavy trucks and light vehicles

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FMCSA moves on registration-system update

Latest step in the agency's "clean up the bad actors" effort with a new entity registration system: approval sought from the White House OMB to implement a new "FMCSA Registration System (FRS)" to replace the Unified Registration System.

Aaron Terrazas

Three common fallacies in popular 'driver shortage' arguments

Don't let the push toward electric powertrains turn into a 'green monopoly'

FMCSA moves on registration-system update

Fog-blind trucker hits concrete barrier: Preventable?

Ice Pick Bandit strikes again: Will the feds step in?

'Too many scammers out there': Trucker of the Month stays choosy about brokers

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