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TRUCKING INTELLIGENCE * USA - Keeping Trucks Full, Coming and Going
It's an age-old problem: How to find cargo for their return trip home after they’ve made their initial delivery
Lawrenceville, N.J.,USA -The New York Times, by KEN BELSON -April 21, 2010: ... Yet more than a quarter of the trucks on the road in the United States drive empty, according to industry estimates... Some of the country’s largest retailers, manufacturers and trucking companies are working on a solution, sharing information about their trucking routes in hopes of matching empty trucks with goods that need to be shipped... Known as Empty Miles, the program is the brainchild of the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association, or VICS, a nonprofit group that tries to make the supply chain in consumer goods industries more efficient... For decades, companies have tried to eliminate empty truck miles in an ad hoc fashion. One company would hear about another company that shipped along the same route. One manager would call his counterpart and work out a deal. Then, about two years ago, VICS members representing a swath of corporate America bore down on the problem. Diesel fuel was near record highs; the economy was slowing. Running empty trucks was more and more the difference between profits and losses; running fewer trucks was a way to reduce emissions and help meet corporate sustainability goals... VICS worked with GS1 US, the standards group that developed the bar code, to create a portal where shippers including Macy’s, J. C. Penney and Levi Strauss, and two dozen trucking companies can list their empty truck routes... While there are many shippers along the Eastern Seaboard and to the Midwest, it is harder to find matches on longer routes in the Western United States... (Photo: A Macy’s operations center in Secaucus, N.J., which serves the Northeast. Macy’s says that through the Empty Miles program it has found other shippers for 30 of its empty truck routes)Labels: transport intelligence
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