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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA - Companies chase dead-heading rival
"Companies in trouble never give customers a heads-up that they are near the end”
Richmond,NW VA,USA -The Richmond Biz Sense, by Al Harris -August 6, 2009: -- That’s what salespeople for Richmond-based Estes Express Lines are being told to tell customers of competing trucking firm YRC Worldwide... With a 35 percent decline in second quarter freight shipments, YRC is on the ropes and its competitors are taking a no holds barred approach to picking off clients, according to a story in today’s Wall Street Journal... In the meantime, rivals such as Estes Express Lines, Con-Way Inc., FedEx Corp. and Saia Inc, have moved to undercut YRC’s prices or talk up the carrier’s financial problems with potential customers, letters and other documents show. The weak freight market has left these companies, like the rest of the industry, hard-pressed to fill their trucks, and the demise of a major competitor would give their fortunes a boost... The WSJ obtained a copy of talking points distributed to Estes sales people. One of the points is to play up YRC’s Standard & Poor’s credit rating of triple-C and warn that YRC’s lenders could recall loans at any time... Estes has more than 13,000 employees and 30,000 trucks and trailers according to their website. The company was founded amid the Great Depression in Southwest Virginia... And in case you were wondering, dead-heading is CB slang for driving a truck with an empty trailer...* Rules banning truck traffic on Central New York roadways move closer to being final
New York,NY,USA -The Post-Standard, by John Stith -August 6, 2009: -- Starting this fall, big, long-haul trucks may be banned from seven state roadways in Central New York under draft regulations unveiled Thursday by Gov. , David A. Paterson... The regulations would prohibit the trucks using local state roads as a shortcut through the region. According to a news release issued by the governor's office, trucks making local deliveries would be exempt from the regulations... Barb Clary, president of the Upstate Safety Task Force, which has been fighting to get the big trucks off local highways, said she and other Central New York residents have complained for more than two decades about the impact of the truck traffic in the region. Critics say that the trucks, many of which carry municipal garbage from the New York metropolitan area to the privately owned Seneca Meadows landfill in Seneca Falls, have been leaving the interstate highway in Cortland and using local roads to reach Seneca Falls...(Photo by John Berry / The Post-Standard - State Trooper Mike Walser, from Troop D in Oneida, directs trucks along Genesee Street in Skaneateles in this photo from Nov. 28 as truck drivers stage a protest against regulations that would limit their use of smaller highways in the state)Labels: trucking industry news USA
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