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TRUCKING STORY * USA - Employees are valued, layoffs are unheard-of
Trucking firm's road paved by family culture
Philadelphia,PA,USA -The Philadelphia Inquirer, by Henry J. Holcomb -Apr. 21, 2008: -- At the headquarters of A. Duie Pyle Cos., the only reserved parking space is for expectant mothers... That's part of the culture. "We don't have pecking order. We don't create perks based on positions in the company," said Peter Latta, 51, chairman and owner of the West Chester trucking group... The culture seems to be working. Pyle is still family-owned and still growing... The company has nearly 2,000 employees, 835 trucks, 1,600 trailers and 15 terminals, which it calls service centers. It provides less-than-truckload, full-truckload, warehouse and logistics-management services to customers throughout the Northeast and in parts of Canada. Partner companies extend its reach to the Southeast and Midwest... Family companies once were the backbone of trucking. But big carriers gobbled most of them up in the brutal post-deregulation era... Why stay in such a tough business?... "We enjoy the people. They are loyal, and we try to reciprocate," Latta said. "Each day is a new challenge. Bad weather. Congested roads. The challenges our customers face. It's fun at the end of the day when we say: 'We never thought we could get that done, but we got it accomplished.' It is a pleasure to see people do things they didn't know they could do, to see the good things we did together."...Labels: trucking stories
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