Even as the number of logistics firms in Chattanooga has proliferated over the past 15 years, one member of the industry said local politicians have been enamored with other, emerging fields that don’t lean into the region’s existing economic strengths.
“What we’re seeing is really increasing momentum in the logistics industry but still a distraction among our city leaders to focus on these businesses and technologies that we’re not well positioned for,” Craig Fuller, founder of the trucking analytics company FreightWaves, said in a phone call.
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“Chattanooga’s not going to win the quantum battle,” Fuller continued. “I don’t care how much money they give EPB. It just isn’t going to happen because we don’t have engineering talent. We don’t have venture capital.”