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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA & Canada - YRC unit OKs pay cuts after rejecting them
Overland Park,Kan,USA -Associated Press/FORBES -9 Sept 2009: -- Union members from a unit of YRC Worldwide Inc. have agreed to pay and pension cuts after earlier rejecting the plan, following accusations that the struggling trucking company planned to shut down the unit if workers did not vote in favor of the concessions... Teamsters at the Overland Park, Kan.-based trucking company last month ratified a plan to cut their wages by an additional 5 percent and give up company pension contributions for 18 months. The workers already agreed to a 10 percent wage cut early this year, and were given options for 15 percent of the company's stock... YRC, which runs trucks under the names including Yellow and Roadway, had reportedly said it would be forced to shut down its New Penn unit if the group did not approve the concessions with a revote... About two-thirds of the approximately 35,000 union members at YRC cast ballots last month, with 58.5 percent of them voting for the deal... Some other bargaining units that originally rejected the counts will revote next week... (Photo from purchasing.com: YRC Worldwide's future remains a question mark)
* USA - Interline LTL venture gets thumbs up from Justice
Washington,DC,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -9 Sept 2009: -- A joint venture between seven regional LTL carriers, including Alberta's Canadian Freightways, will be allowed to proceed, the U.S. Dept. of Justice ruled this week... According to the department, the joint venture would not reduce competition among regional LTLs and could improve competition among the long-haul LTL carriers... The regional LTL carriers that comprise include Averitt Express, DATS Trucking, Lakeville Motor Express, Land Air Express of New England, Pitt Ohio Express, TransForce-owned Canadian Freightways and its sister company Epic Express... The carriers believe the proposal would allow them to operate more efficiently by combining information technology, operations, sales and marketing efforts, and administration. Each member carrier will continue to operate its regional LTL business independently...* USA - National TruckPorts: New Developments for Trucking Vendors and Trucking Companies
Dallas,TX,USA -PRNewswire -Sept. 9, 2009: -- National TruckPorts ("NTP") recently leased space to several companies, adding to its rapidly expanding tenant base... Marrowstone Truck and Trailer Repair Services Inc. opened its first location at the Denton, TX (North Dallas) TruckPort. Liberty Mechanical Truck & Trailer Repair and Vela's Truck Wash recently moved their businesses to the new South Dallas facility... Currently NTP has two locations open in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, with plans to build facilities throughout Texas and nationwide, which will provide flexible, convenient spaces to carriers and service providers who have trucks in the areas on a regular basis... (Photo from nationaltruckports: South Dallas TruckPort)* USA - Preventative Maintenance Programs Help Fleets Improve Reliability, Avoid Breakdowns
Arlington,VA,USA -Transport Topics/Equipment & Maintenance Update, by Mindy Long -8 Sept 2009: -- Ken Eggen at Tango Transport in Shreveport, La., knows that one size doesn’t fit all... That is why he has separate preventative maintenance checklists for each of the three engine models his fleet runs. He goes a step further and sits down with his shop managers quarterly to pick through those checklists and make adjustments... “Over a period of time, a truck changes,” said Eggen, Tango’s vice president of fleet maintenance. “You build a little bit of data and you learn that the Cummins engine needs different things checked at different times than a Caterpillar engine”... Just like routine check ups at the doctor can prevent a visit to the emergency room, planned maintenance helps fleets avoid breakdowns and prolongs the life of a unit. During preventative maintenance, technicians aim to fix things before they’re broken. They check belts, filters and fluid levels, change oil and conduct predictable repairs, among other things, to keep small problems from becoming big ones, saving fleets thousands of dollars of future maintenance costs in the process... (Photo from carcaresalisbury: Heavy Duty Truck Repair)
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