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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA - Retailer and trucking firm use new system to keep trucks from traveling empty
* New Jersey - Retailer and trucking firm use new system to keep trucks from traveling empty - Macy`s, Schneider National See Savings and Green Benefits from Empty Miles Service
Lawrenceville,N.J.,USA -Business Wire -12 Oct 2009: -- The Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions (VICS) Association, GS1 Canada and GS1 US today announced the release of a case study that confirms the benefits of the Empty Miles Service being offered by the three organizations. The study examines two VICS member companies, Macy`s Inc. and Schneider National, which are realizing both financial and environmental gains from the service... The VICS Empty Miles Service matches a company`s trailers that are returning empty with another company`s potential loads that can be collected and delivered along the return route. For participating companies, the Empty Miles service will save money, produce revenues and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption across North America. More than 30 companies are currently using the service, with more joining every week. The service, currently active in the United States, will launch in Canada later this year... (Photo from 123edi: vics)
* Researchers forecast negotiating advantage for truckers
Indiana,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Reed Black -October 13, 2009: -- After struggling through the recession – and a period where shippers held all the cards when it came to rates – an Indiana research company is predicting that independent truckers may soon gain the upper hand... Kenny Vieth of ACT Research is predicting slow improvement in the trucking economy over the next three years... And Vieth thinks, by the end of this year, the industry will see a situation in which there’s more freight to haul than there are trucks to haul it... Vieth says ACT Research is also predicting that after three straight years of declines in the production of heavy-duty trucks, Class 8 production will now start picking up. He says several major trucking companies have already announced that they’re through shrinking their fleets and are ready to add new trucks...
* Ohio - YRC Worldwide selling ex-Roadway headquarters
Kansas trucking company seeking investors to buy, lease back Akron facility
Akron,OH,USA -The Beacon Journal/Ohio.com, by Jim Mackinnon -Oct 10, 2009: -- The former Roadway headquarters on Gorge Boulevard in Akron, part of struggling Kansas trucking company YRC Worldwide, is up for sale... Asking price for the 270,000-square-foot property: $8 million... The site at 1077 Gorge Blvd. is where Roadway Express built its headquarters in 1962; a 180,000-square-foot, multistory addition was finished in 1986 at a cost of about $14 million... The move to sell the Akron property mirrors similar action that YRC undertook earlier this year with its corporate headquarters in Overland Park, Kan., the company said Friday...* Texas - Producers in need of hay urged to utilize hay hotline. Trucking services asked to provide reduced rates for hay delivery
Houston,TX,USA -South West Farm Press -Oct 12, 2009: -- Despite some substantial rain across parts of the state, many Texas ranchers continue to struggle to feed livestock due to the lingering drought that has cost the state’s agriculture industry approximately $3.6 billion in losses... Commissioner Staples is encouraging Texas livestock producers to go to the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Hay Hotline Web site... TDA is also working with the Texas trucking industry to provide ranchers with more affordable hay transportation in times of drought and other crises... In the meantime, producers in need of hay should also contact their local Texas Department of Transportation office for information on baling the right of ways along Texas highways... (Photo from easttexaslivestock: livestock trucks)
* Florida - Quality Distribution Sells Tank-Wash Unit
Tampa,FL,USA -Transport Topics -13 Oct 2009: -- Tank truck carrier Quality Distribution said it has sold tank wash unit Quala Systems for $13 million... Quality sold “substantially all of the operating assets” of the unit to QualaWash Holdings for $10 million in cash and $3 million in a subordinated note, the company said Saturday... Quala Systems entered into various agreements with QualaWash, including long-term leases of real estate used in the tank wash business and various operating agreements, Quality said...* Arkansas - J.B. Hunt Reported Close to Intermodal Deal
Lowell,AR,USA -AP / The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Oct 14, 2009: ... J.B. Hunt Transport Services, the trucking company that helped launch the intermodal industry through an agreement with Western carrier Santa Fe Railway in 1989, may be close to a new long-term agreement with an Eastern railroad, the Associated Press reported yesterday... Several rail investment analysts have said Lowell, Ark.-based J.B. Hunt Transport is close to an exclusive intermodal agreement with either Norfolk Southern or CSX. J.B. Hunt Transport's intermodal business has outstripped its original long-haul trucking business, with volumes growing from 20 loads in 1989 to more than 850,000 loads in 2008...Labels: trucking industry news USA
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