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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA
* Germany - Deutsche Post May Sell DHL to FedEx, Report Says
Germany -Bloomberg/Transport Topics -25 Jan 2008: -- Deutsche Post AG may sell its DHL Americas unit to FedEx Corp., according to a German newspaper... The Financial Times Deutschland said Deutsche Post may sell the U.S. operation to FedEx and seek a merger partner for its Deutsche Postbank unit later this year, the newspaper reported, citing unidentified company officials... Bloomberg quoted an analyst with UBS Securities who said the move “conceptually makes sense” for FedEx...
* High-tech trucking
High-tech dispatch center gives edge to trucking firmFlint,Mich,USA -The Flint Journal, by Melissa Burdenmburden/Mlive.com -January 24, 2008: -- It's an industry where miles and minutes are king... "It's a game of pennies," said Jeff Berlin, executive vice president and chief financial officer of E.L. Hollingsworth & Co., a Flint-based trucking firm. "It's a game of cents per mile"... And the roughly 30 dispatchers who work around the clock for the trucking company now have a high-tech center. They track and monitor 420 trailers and nearly 300 trucks for the company and its customers, primarily in the automotive industry... The new $70,000 renovation - featuring a tiered design, open room and 6- by 4-foot screens and 50-inch plasma TVs - is a far cry from the cubicles where they used to work... The dispatch center, which was garage space, features screens that show such things as a weather map; views of the company's truck yards in Flint, Burton, Dearborn and Lebanon, Tenn.,; and one that alerts dispatchers of drivers who may be getting close to U.S. Department of Transportation limits for driving hours...
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