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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA - Martin Transportation Systems to Close Dayton-Area Hub by End of the Year
Huber Heights,OH,USA -Manufacturing & Technology -November 05, 2008: -- Logistics provider Martin Transportation Systems will be closing its facility here, putting 105 workers out of a job... It appears the downturn in manufacturing - especially the auto segment where Michigan-based Martin does a lot of work – took a severe toll on the company, although Martin did not offer an official reason for the closing and could not be reached for comment... The facility in this suburban Dayton town will close on December 31, according to a letter to the state of Ohio...* Con-way being pushed to cut rates
San Mateo,CAL,USA -The Mercury News -5 Nov 2008: -- Con-way, the second-largest U.S. trucking company, said customers are pushing for rate reductions as the trucking industry struggles with a two-year-old slump in freight shipping demand... The San Mateo-based company still expects to benefit as customers put increasing importance on the financial stability of the carriers they choose to move their cargo, Con-way Freight President John Labrie said today at a Goldman Sachs conference in New York... "It's certainly very competitive. Supply exceeds demand," Labrie said. "We are seeing shippers take advantage of that to the extent they can. Financial stability is important, especially to big shippers." * Trucking company gives its two-cents’ worth on diesel tax in Illinois city
Pasadena,TX,USA -Land Line Magazin, by Clarissa Kell-Holland -November 4, 2008: -- Thanks, but no thanks, is the stance one Texas trucking company is taking after finding out the city of Mount Vernon, IL, is imposing a 2-cent-per-gallon tax on diesel fuel there... OOIDA Senior Member David Schnautz, general manager for Clark Freight Lines Inc., in Pasadena, TX, sent a memo out to the 200-plus company drivers, as well as the leased drivers, advising them not to “take on fuel in Mount Vernon, IL.”... He also sent a letter to Mount Vernon Mayor Mary Jane Chesley regarding the decision not to fuel up there any longer... In September, the City of Mount Vernon imposed the 2-cent tax on diesel, which – combined with a 1 percent restaurant/beverage tax and an increase in the telecommunications tax from 1 percent to 2 percent – is expected to generate about $900,000 more a year in revenue for the city... He summed up the letter to Mayor Chesley with the line, “Your council put in their 2 cents and now so have I”...* More truckers plan to bypass Mount Vernon fuel stops
Denton,TX,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Clarissa Kell-Holland -November 5, 2008: --
* OOIDA member Doug Geeting decided to take action, too... Geeting, who is the operations manager for Keltingco Trucking Inc., in Denton, TX, said the company’s 150 trucks will no longer fuel up in Mount Vernon. He also sent an e-mail to Mount Vernon Mayor Mary Jane Chesley, as well as the four City Council members on Wednesday, Nov. 5, explaining why their trucks were no longer going to fuel up in the city because of their tax on diesel...
* OOIDA Life Member Darrell Hicks of Tulare, CA, said he won’t be stopping to fuel up in Mount Vernon any time soon. “There are plenty of places to do business in any direction from Mount Vernon,” Hicks said. “As far as I am concerned, that whole place can dry up.”...
* Eileen Unger of Custom Freight Service in Houston, TX, told Land Line it’s about time truckers started fighting back... “While two cents a gallon may not seem like a lot to somebody who puts 20 gallons in a four-wheel vehicle, two cents is a lot when you pump 200 gallons at a time,” she said. “Truckers can say a lot by not buying fuel in Mount Vernon.”...
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