Girteka on Europe’s Trucking Stabilization

About this episode

In this episode, Girteka CEO Edvardas Liachovicius discusses the stabilization of Europe's trucking market and the challenges it faces.

Europe’s trucking market is stabilizing after a prolonged downturn, but structural challenges remain. In this episode of the Talking Transports podcast, Girteka CEO Edvardas Liachovicius joins Bloomberg Intelligence’s Lee Klaskow to discuss how overcapacity and weak demand in 2023–24 pressured rates and profitability, with only early signs of balance emerging. Liachovicius highlights a structural driver shortage, worsened by geopolitical events, as a key constraint on growth, alongside fuel volatility and fragmented regulation across 27 countries. He outlines Girteka’s focus on temperature-controlled, high-care cargo and long-haul corridors, while emphasizing that driver availability — not demand — is now the primary limiter of capacity and future expansion. Liachovicius shares his journey from one of Girteka’s first employees to CEO.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Lee Klaskow

Guest: Edvardas Liachovicius

Topics covered

• trucking market
• capacity challenges
• geopolitical events
• fuel volatility
• driver shortage

Keywords

• trucking
• Europe
• Girteka
• driver shortage
• fuel volatility
• geopolitical events
• capacity
• profitability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Girteka, Bloomberg

Places: Europe

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