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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA - YRC Worldwide Spots Early Sign Of Economy 'Turning'
Chicago,ILL,USA -Dow Jones Newswires, by Doug Cameron -July 25, 2008: -- The head of YRC Worldwide Inc., the largest standalone U.S. trucking company by revenue, said on Friday that a change in shippers' behavior provided the first sign of a recovery in the domestic economy... Bill Zollars, Chairman and CEO of the Overland Park, Kan.-based company, said the average size of its less-than-truckload, or LTL, shipments was increasing... "That's usually an early indicator that the economy is turning," said Zollars in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires after YRC had reported a return to profitability in the second quarter... Zollars stressed that it was too early to tell whether the trend represented a sustained improvement in economic conditions, and rivals have remained cautious about their outlook...
* Con-way receives high environmental score
USA -Fleet Owner -Jul 28, 2008: -- Con-way Inc. has announced that its three primary operating companies-- Con-way Freight, Con-way Truckload and Menlo Worldwide Logistics—-have received the highest fuel efficiency and environmental performance score from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay Transport Partnership... According to Con-way, its Shipper Index Factor of 1.25 means the three companies are best utilizing commercially available fuel savings strategies while considering promising new savings methods and emerging technologies... Eight hundred SmartWay trucking and logistics companies have used EPA’s FLEET (fleet logistics energy and environmental tracking) performance model. Through these initiatives, Con-way Freight saved 3,594,377 gallons of total fuel in 2007, reducing 601,928 tons of carbon emissions, Con-way said...
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