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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA & Canada
* USA / OPINION - Slow, volatile recovery predicted for trucking
Nashville,TENN,USA –Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -Sep 22, 2009: -- The trucking industry is facing a slow and volatile recovery over the next several months, according to experts speaking here at the TMW System’s TransForum 2009 user conference. The reason given for this volatility is that many of the business fundamentals within trucking are irrevocably changing, said David Wangler, TMW’s president & CEO... In basic terms, Wangler pointed out, the amount of freight moving across North America‘s roadways is much less than it was just 12 months ago – and as a result, the carrying capacity of the U.S. economy for profitable freight movement has fallen dramatically... As a result, going forward, trucking companies must be “leaner” organizations, Hartford stressed, as any costs that can be extracted from their bottom lines now will help them maintain profit margins as the freight market recovers...(Image from ribablogs: Truck Customs ticking the boxes
* USA - Trucking company targets region
Dallas,TX,USA -Philly Burbs/Bucks County Courier Times, by CHRIS BISHOP -21 Sept 2009: ... Tractor-trailers with a distinct green cab and green lettering on their sides will be seen increasingly on area roadways... Those trucks are part of a $500 million Texas trucking company that recently opened a distribution center in Burlington Township... Frozen Food Express Transportation Services, based in Dallas, hopes to boost its service - and profits - in the Northeast with the new center. The company owns and operates temperature-controlled trucks, with core operations in the moving of refrigerated perishable goods such as food, pharmaceuticals and confectionary products... (BCT Staff Photograph/Dennis Mc Donald - Russell Stubbs, left, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of FFE Transportation Services speaks with Burlington Township, NJ Mayor Stephen George, right, inside a refrigerated room at their new facility located in the Haines Industrial Park. The company held an open house on Wednesday with tours of the facility and a luncheon for local and company officials)* Canada - Truck wears hot pink tanker top
Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -21 Sept 2009: -- The first time you pass this tanker, we guarantee you’ll remember it... It’s hot, almost shocking pink, and white... And it’s a sign of Superior Propane’s support for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Ontario region... Last week, the Calgary-based fuel company introduced the truck -- a significant contrast to its mostly yellow fleet -- and announced that a portion of all revenue generated from the deliveries will go back to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation... Not only that but each time the truck makes a delivery, the customer will get a note advising them that they’ve just helped fight breast cancer... (Picture: Superior Propane hopes this paint job will raise awareness for breastcancer)
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