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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA - Company finds new generation of success
A Kansas City trucking company may have found the key to moving ahead in an idling economy: good grooming
Kansas,MO,USA -The Star/Kansas City.com, by ROY HARRYMAN -9 Feb 2009: -- Troy Hott, 30, took over as general manager of Mo Kan Distribution in 2007 after serving at his grandfather’s side since he was 15... Hott said several factors fuel his optimism.The company recently hired Stan Adkins, its first full-time sales staff member in several years. Aggressive marketing efforts have yielded new clients... The company is able to offer competitive rates because it owns its fleet of more than 30 trucks and its 15,000-square-foot terminal and office, he said. This debt-free position shrinks overhead costs... Hott and Adkins said another factor boosting sales is that Mo Kan carries both full-load and partial-load shipments — and this flexibility can win deals. In addition, the firm is willing to deliver on unconventional time frames and takes advantage of every opportunity to pick up freight on return trips... Hott said the business strives to maintain his grandfather’s philosophy: “It’s not if you can do it, it’s how you can do it.”Mo Kan does not use third-party contractors, also known as brokers, to make deliveries... Mo Kan serves customers ranging from small businesses to national firms in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska... (Photo by MIKE RANSDELL - Troy Hott (left), general manager, and Stan Adkins, director of sales and marketing, are in charge of Mo Kan Distribution)
* Knight lays out trucking’s challenges
Orlando,FL,USA -Fleet Owner -Feb 10, 2009: -- During a speech here at the Technology & Maintenance Council’s annual meeting, Kevin Knight, chairman & CEO of Phoenix-based truckload carrier Knight Transportation, listed what he believes to be the four biggest challenges facing trucking in the months ahead:* Falling freight volumes: “This is our biggest challenge right now – and there are not enough loads for all of us,” Knight said.
* Shipper stress: He said, “I am worried a lot about how aggressive they are being with our industry to cut down their transportation costs. I am concerned what that pressure to cut cost will do to their transportation and logistics planning overall.”
* Equipment pre-buy: Knight said. “We need to stay prudent with our equipment purchases in this storm. There’s no significant indication of a pre-buy now, but it would be disastrous to try and order 150,000 trucks over the last six months this year and then order nothing in 2010.”
* Fuel: “Concern about fuel prices has got to be in here,” he said. “... But if not, it’s going to be much, much tougher on our industry.”
* GE Transportation to cut jobs as demand falls
New York,NY,USA -The Trucker News Services -11 Feb 2009: -- GE Transportation, a supplier to the rail, marine and mining industries, said Tuesday it will permanently cut 350 workers and temporarily lay off another 1,200 amid a sharp drop in demand... Erie, Pennsylvania-based GE Transportation, a unit of General Electric Co. that employs about 11,000 people, said that around mid-April it will permanently lay off 200 hourly workers and 150 salaried workers, all of whom work in the Erie area...Labels: trucking industry news USA
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