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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA: Smaller fleet success
* Depends on smarts, not the number of trucks. Size doesn’t ensure a fleet’s success—how smartly it’s run does
-Fleet Owner, David Cullen -Oct 13, 2014: -- Smaller, over-the-road truck fleets can successfully compete against larger— not to mention mega-sized— motor carriers if their owners think and act big by fully leveraging the reduced footprint of their operations... Managers of smaller carriers can not only keep a toehold in today’s freight marketplace, but gain the upper hand when they’re smart enough to recognize opportunities they can exploit to their advantage... Here, then, are profiles of a dynamic trio of smaller fleets whose recent experiences amply demonstrate that what matters isn’t the number of trucks you run, but how smart you run with them...
According to Sergio Casas Silva Jr., operations manager for TILI Logistics, the San Diego-based nationwide carrier got its start back in 2007 as a regional carrier hauling manufactured goods from the free-trade zone (a maquiladora) across the border in Mexico into Southern California... From that initial niche, the fleet began expanding becoming the 48-state coast-to-coast operation it is today...
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While Everett, WA-based National Food Corp. (NFC) lays claim to being the Northwest’s leading producer of organic and cage-free eggs, its fleet provides refrigerated and dry-van truckload and LTL services throughout the Northwest to outside firms... According to transportation manager Kevin Bookey, his father and his uncle launched the private fleet operation back in 1956 to get the family farm’s eggs to market by delivering them to major retailers, food-distribution firms, and even mom-and-pop stores... Today, the fleet is truly multi-purpose, as it’s charged with hauling live chickens and feed to NFC’s farms and fresh eggs from there to its processing plants, if processing is not done right at a farm...
Holman Distribution describes itself as a “one-stop shop for distribution and transportation needs.” For the Kent, WA-based operation, a key element of that is a highway fleet “capable of delivering any type of freight at competitive rates” in the Seattle and Portland areas as well as up and down the I-5 corridor that ties together Washington and Oregon.
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