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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA & Canada
* US-Canada Trucking Declines
Montreal,QUE,CAN -Journal of Commerce/Courtney Tower/Traffic World (Washington,DC,USA) -15 Dec 2008: -- Freight traffic over the busiest United States-Canada border crossing declined by nearly 500,000 trucks through November from the previous-year period... Truck traffic on the venerable Detroit-Windsor Ambassador Bridge dropped 14.9 percent or 474,074 trucks to 2.7 million from 3.2 million in the 2007 period, according to the Public Border Operators Association, which monitors crossings between Michigan and New York with the province of Ontario... Four major crossings, plus one between New York state and Quebec province and one between Washington state and British Columbia on the West Coast, account for the bulk of U.S.-Canada commercial traffic. The latter two have not published recent statistics, but the declining trend has been similar...
* USA - FedEx Freight Cuts Jobs
USA -Traffic World, by John Gallagher -15 Dec 2008: -- FedEx Freight is cutting staff by 540 as weak demand forces the company to adjust to lower business levels... In a memo sent to employees last week, FedEx Freight President and CEO Douglas G. Duncan said the job cuts will occur across 150 facilities, with 450 at the regional divisions and 90 at FedEx National LTL... The cuts represent 1.5 percent of approximately 35,000 employees...
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