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Sep 16, 2016

'CALAIS' TRUCKING CRISIS * France: Hungarian trucker, "'I didn't have a chance to respect traffic rules"

* Port of Calais - Truck driver who was caught on dashcam swerving at migrants as they attacked his vehicle: Faces jail

(Video by Akhil Blossom - Sep 14, 2016: I didn't have a chance to respect traffic rules': Truck driver who was caught on dashcam swerving at migrants as they attacked his vehicle in Calais faces jail) 

--- A trucker could be facing jail after he was filmed on dashcam deliberately driving his lorry at a group of migrants... Arpad Levente Jeddi can be heard shouting as he swerved his truck along the side of a road where the migrants were gathered, sending them scattering... Jeddi, from Hungary, was furious after the crowds pelted his vehicle with bottles and other missiles in an attempt to make him stop... Now prosecutors in Hungary are calling for him to be given a suspended jail sentence... They also want him to receive a lengthy driving ban when the dangerous driving case comes to court... Jeddi was sacked soon after the video first emerged last year, but he has since been hired by another transport firm... 
Port of Calais, France - The Daily Mail (UK), by RORY TINGLE - 15 September 2016

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Jul 1, 2009

CRISIS * UK - Haulage companies owed £720 million

Barclays Bank has reported that small and medium sized road haulage and logistics companies are owed in excess of £720 million

London,UK -HGV (Ireland) -28 June 2009: -- ... The Bank's Late Payments Report established that SME haulage and logistics companies in England and Wales are owed on average almost £3,000 on any given day... These companies have incurred losses of almost £271m over the last 12 months, an average of £1,000 per company... The report also revealed that haulage companies typically have to wait almost a two weeks after the invoice due date before they get paid... (Picture from roadtransport/big-lorry-blog: Collet small)

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May 16, 2009

TRUCKING CRISIS WORLDWIDE

* India - Lenders delay seizing vehicles as resale prices fall, yard rentals up

Financiers turn ‘lenient’ as repayment chances fade if vehicle is seized because that reduces the earnings of owner

Chennai,India -The Wall Street Journal/LiveMint (USA), by Anupama Chandrasekaran -14 May 2009: -- Like many loan defaulters, Periasamy Ramalingam ignored the incessant telephone calls from his financier, Tata Motorfinance. The 52-year-old owner of Bangalore-based Infant Tempo Service has delayed payments on six instalments so far... But Tata Motorfinance, the financing arm of auto maker Tata Motors Ltd, which is yet to receive Rs8 lakh on Ramalingam’s loans for six trucks, is not rushing to seize the vehicles. Even six months ago, the lender’s agents would have driven off with trucks, had he missed just three payments... Loan collection agents, who didn’t want to be named, said Ramalingam’s vehicles had not been seized yet. A Tata Motorfinance spokesperson declined to comment... It’s not compassion that’s holding back financiers, but a spike in the cost of holding confiscated trucks and plummeting resale prices of commercial vehicles in a slowing economy... The irony is that the appeal attached with commercial vehicle financing has become its bane. The incentive in lending to truck buyers has been that confiscating a vehicle in the event of a default is easier than seizing other collaterals such as an apartment... (Photo LiveMint - Jittery ride: Seized commercial vehicles parked at a farm in Najafgarh, a New Delhi suburb. Vehicles have piled up in parking lots as many transport firms have voluntarily handed over their vehicles to lenders)


* France - Asks EU to Help Truckers, Delay Market Opening

Paris,France -Bloomberg, by Francois de Beaupuy -April 30, 2009: -- French Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau has asked the European Commission to consider support for trucking companies that are hit by the economic slump and to delay a planned opening of the region’s road-haulage markets... The European Parliament on April 23 voted to let trucking companies that make an international journey in the 27-nation EU carry out up to three domestic operations within seven days of arrival... The proposed law, which requires approval from EU governments, would also allow trucking companies to use this right, known as cabotage, in any other EU nations provided the domestic operations there are limited to one per country within three days of entering the territory... The new law aims to bolster competition and reduce empty- truck runs across the European Union... (Photo from nancarrow-webdesk: Trucks near Strasbourg, French)



* Ireland - DHL looks to cut costs and save jobs

Dublin,Ireland -HGV -13 May 2009: -- Courier company DHL has entered in dialogue with SIPTU, with a view to saving some of the planned 320 job losses it announced last week... The multinational employs 1,600 staff in Ireland in four separate divisions and plans to cut 320 jobs... The company announced last week that it intended closing seven regional depots in Galway, Sligo, Cavan, Athlone, Waterford, Enniscorthy and Tralee...

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Jan 26, 2009

TRUCKING INDUSTRY CRISIS * USA & Canada - YRC Bankruptcy Risk High, says Analyst

Overland Park,Kansas,USA -Traffic World, by John Gallagher -26 Jan 2009: -- Details of the waiver conditions YRC Worldwide obtained from its bank lenders Jan. 16 reveal that the nation's largest trucking company may not have improved its chances of avoiding bankruptcy, according to Wall Street analyst Ed Wolfe of Wolfe Research... YRC's banks provided the waivers until mid-February to allow sufficient time to amend its credit facilities and renew asset backed securitization without a delay in reporting the company's 2008 results... "We believe the restrictive conditions in these waivers likely shows how little hand YRCW has left in these negotiations and we continue to believe a high risk of some form of bankruptcy remains"...


* Canada - Carriers cutting capacity; Pessimism over '09 worsens

Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -26 Jan 2009: -- Going on at least 18 months now, the Canadian freight recession has gloomed the economic outlook for many Ontario fleets. On the bright side, however, fleets are responding to the wilting demand by cutting capacity rather by squeezing the market further with cheap trucking... So says the 1Q09 Business Pulse e-Survey conducted by the Ontario Trucking Association earlier this month, which shows a marked deterioration in the provincial outlook for the next three to six months... OTA President David Bradley, points out that, "most trucking companies, and certainly those who will survive this difficult period, are taking the actions they can and structuring themselves to weather this storm and to come out of it when things do start to recover stronger than before"... Of the 82 trucking companies that responded to the survey, half said they were pessimistic about overall industry prospects over the next three months, up from 34 percent in the 4Q08 survey. And percentage of trucking companies that are optimistic about the coming quarter dropped to 17 percent, from 24 percent... (Photo: Truckers who thought the clouds would part in the first half of 2009 will have to wait longer yet)

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Jan 8, 2009

TRUCKING INDUSTRY CRISIS * USA - Fear Or Reality?

* YRC Worldwide May Fail, Even With Paycuts

USA -Truckers' Forum, by Bullwinkle -7 Jan 2009: -- The final vote on the Union paycuts is supposed to take place today, or may have already taken place at this point... But a news story I heard on the radio last night, which referenced sources within YRC Worldwide, said all of these paycuts and job cuts are likely only delaying the inevitable, Bankruptcy. Yep, I just said that nasty word again.... According to what I was hearing last night, YRC Worldwide's debt is so high, following their acquisitions such as Roadway, that in order for them to succeed, even with help via Union paycuts and several job cuts, the only chance that YRC Woldwide has of succeeding is if the trucking industry has a very significant turnaround in the FIRST quarter of 2009... As we all know, the chances of the trucking industry having a turnaround in the first quarter of 2009 are extremely slim. If anythying, it is likely to get worse during the first quarter... (P.N.: I have no facts to verify any of this. Can any one to do it?)


* Rock Island trucking firm cutting 70 jobs

Rock Island,ILL,USA -WQAD -Jan 7, 2009-- More jobs could be cut in the Quad Cities as a Rock Island trucking firm says it'll consolidate operations... The parent company of Roadway Express says more than half of its workforce may be cut in the coming weeks at its Rock Island trucking terminal... A company spokesman tells the Dispatch-Rock Island Argus that 70 local employees will be laid off and 60 will stay on the job...


* R&J Trucking Company announced 35 layoffs...

Parkersburg,WV,USA -WTAP-TV, byTodd Baucher -Jan 7, 2009: -- Early this week, R&J Trucking Company announced 35 layoffs...which could be temporary, depending on how the economy fares... Tuesday, Americas Styrenics announced the reduction of 60 jobs...not totally, but at least partially connected to the current economic picture... The R&J situation could be related to the national, not just the local economy... There's long been a saying that, when one area of the country catches cold, another area sneezes. The Mid-Ohio Valley and the industry on Ohio Route 7 may be getting a chill that might not be related to the current weather... (SEE VIDEO)

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Jan 3, 2009

TRUCKING INDUSTRY CRISIS WORLDWIDE

* India - Slowdown hits goods transport business

A third of the 350,000 trucks plying on long routes face the threat of seizure by their financiers over payment of arrears

New Delhi,.India -The Business Standard (Mumbai,Maharashtra), by Bijith R -January 2, 2009: -- Over 7,000 such trucks have already been seized... Truckers, in short, now face their worst ever crisis. The magnitude is not small. All told, there are 275,000 goods transport agencies or truck operators in the country, who together own 4.43 million trucks. The crisis has put at stake the livelihood of almost 25 million workers who are directly or indirectly employed in the goods transportation industry...


* Macau - Trucking business slumps 60 percent amid economic turmoil


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RAS Macau,China -The Macau Daily Times -2 January 2009: -- Chairman of the Trucking Industry Mutual Help Association, Tong Chak Sam, said the local trucking business had shrunk by 60 percent as impacted by the global financial crisis... Tong said trucking was a "passive industry", and following the close down of a number of factories in the mainland and Macau, and also the decrease of local construction projects, drivers of cross-border goods carrying trucks and local transit connections trucks had been affected. He added that some drivers had already been forced to sell their vehicles. Despite the mainland exempted bridge and road toll charges, Tong said the effectiveness was "not evident"...

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Nov 3, 2008

TRUCKING CRISIS * Japan - Long, short-distance haulers losing jobs, cutting corners to make ends meet

Truckers feeling financial squeeze

Tokyo,Japan -The Yomiuri Shimbun -3 Nov 2008: -- The financial crisis has affected the distribution industry, causing some truck drivers to take desperate measures to make ends meet... The number of jobs at the delivery company in Kansai where the man works has dropped dramatically since September. This likely is because exporting firms have reduced production... In October, the man earned 260,000 yen after taxes. Of that amount, 130,000 yen was salary and the rest was commission and a so-called effort allowance... If the driver uses local roads rather than the expressway, he can pocket 70 percent of the tolls he would have paid on the highway... The driver said he sometimes feels himself falling asleep while driving... A 39-year-old short-distance trucker in Saitama also is facing a dire situation... Because the company he worked for went bankrupt two months ago, he was forced to accept a temporary job in mid-October at a company that carries base paper for cardboard to Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures...

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Oct 24, 2008

TRUCKING TO SHUT DOWN * USA - Closing Adelanto yard: Ninety drivers could be out of work

Adelanto, California USA -Trading Markets -October 23, 2008: -- Driver Fred Beavers said he turned in his keys on Wednesday to the Adelanto branch of Gemini Traffic Sales Inc., which transports foods and pharmaceutical products coast to coast... "I was notified today that if I want to continue to work with Gemini, I'd have to work on the East Coast for five weeks and then I'd have a week off," Beavers said. "The drivers are quitting because of this. We all live out here in California and we're not going to do that"... The Adelanto-based drivers do need to commit to working five weeks a time if they want to continue working for the company, Gemini Traffic Sales Vice President of Operations Ron Williams said... Gemini Traffic Sales is also shutting down its Georgia and Texas branches , but only California- and Texasbased drivers face the choice between working for five weeks at a time in or quitting, Williams said...

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Aug 31, 2008

TRUCKING INDUSTRY CRISIS * UK - Amtrak's last post?

London,UK -The Road Transport, by Dominic Perry/Motor Transport-27 August 2008: -- Falling volumes are being blamed for the collapse of business-to-consumer parcel carrier Amtrak, which went into administration on 22 August, putting 900 jobs at risk... Although a statement from administrator Ernst & Young says that it is "assessing the financial situation of the business" and warns about service disruption, several depots told MT that the business had ceased trading as of 26 August... However, MT was unable to confirm this as we went to press...


* 60 staff made redundant at Sandy McCracken

London,UK -Commercial Motor/The Road Transport, by Roanna Avison -26 August 2008: -- Sandy McCracken & Son has made 60 staff redundant after calling in provisional liquidators last Friday (22 August)... McCracken, which ran 45 trucks and 55 trailers, called in MLM Insolvency to investigate if it could continue operating and find a buyer, or whether it would have to go into liquidation... MLM partner Maureen Leslie says: "Sandy McCracken is still operating its biggest accounts and we are talking to some interested parties about selling the business which includes a 5.5-acre yard two miles off the M74"... Leslie adds that most of those made redundant were drivers...

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Aug 29, 2008

TRUCKING INDUSTRY CRISIS * USA - Farmington trucking company to close; 100 to lose jobs

Rochester,NY,USA -The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, by James Goodman -August 29, 2008: -- When Ed Fosdick, vice president of operations for Priority Transportation in Farmington, began to explain why the company with 100 employees is going out of business, he cited the names of several other trucking companies that have also closed down... In addition to the 100 workers who are losing their jobs at Priority's office on Collett Road in the Ontario County community, another 100 employees in Chesterton, Ind., will also lose their jobs, along with about 500 truck drivers... Priority Transportation has run the business in Farmington since 2002... (Photo: When Ed Fosdick, vice president of operations for Priority Transportation in Farmington, began to explain why the company with 100 employees is going out of business, he cited the names of several other trucking companies that have also closed down)


* Celadon to assist Priority with loads

USA -FleetOwner -Aug 27, 2008: -- Citing rising operating costs, Priority Transportation has reached agreement with Celadon Group for Celadon to cover customer loads and assist in the collection of tractors and trailers as well as accounts receivables. Celadon will not purchase any assets under the deal, Celadon said... A Celadon subsidiary signed what the company called a “receivables collection and equipment marshalling agreement” with Priority Transportation, a subsidiary of Priority America. Under terms of the agreement, Celadon has agreed to use “reasonable efforts” to cover certain loads and assist in the retrieval of equipment and collections...

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Aug 14, 2008

TRUCKING INDUSTRY CRISIS * USA - Another LTL carrier closes its doors

In early July, Alvan Motor Freight filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced it was closing its doors

Newton,MA,USA -Purchasing, by David Hannon -14 Aug 2008: -- Alvan Motor Freight had seen a lot of market trends in its 67 years of operations as a less-than-truckload carrier based in Kalamazoo, Mich. But the latest "perfect storm" of declining trucking demand, record high fuel costs, a strike at a major automotive-industry customer and tighter credit markets was just more than the 500-employee firm could bear. In early July, it filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced it was closing its doors... The company's CEO James Van Zoeren, whose family founded the company in 1941, said he tried to find a buyer for the LTL carrier, "but just couldn't find any takers"... A week before Alvan closed its doors, JHT Holdings, a holding company for several automotive industry trucking firms, announced a restructuring under Chapter 11 but said it plans to continue operations. The week before that New York-based flatbed steel hauler Path Truck Lines shut its doors. And the biggest filing lately has been Jevic Transportation which shut down in May...

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Aug 4, 2008

TRUCKING INDUSTRY CRISIS * USA - Kansas companies put out of business by high fuel costs

After more than 40 years in the business, Mike Ross closed his Salina trucking company on July 1

Wichita,KS,USA -The Wichita Eagle, by BECCY TANNER -Aug. 03, 2008: -- ... Tony Gaston cut his Hutchinson fleet from 50 to 26 trucks. Now he is looking at laying off some office staff. Mike Fritch of Burrton went from three trucks to one. Even then, he says, it's touch and go... "It's fuel costs," Fritch said. "Cash flow disappears and fuel costs keep going up... You have to make the decision: Do you buy a new set of tires, find used tires or try to keep running with what you got? I haven't bought new tires since 2002. I'm cutting corners everywhere I can."... Travel down Kansas highways these days and the journey is more solitary -- fewer trucks as well as fewer cars... Nationwide, nearly 1,000 trucking companies failed in the first quarter of this year, parking 42,000 trucks, according to the most recent information available from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Just less than 2,000 companies closed their doors all of last year...


* Big firms, independent truckers throttle down over fuel costs - Exorbitant diesel fuel prices have left the commercial trucking trade in the midst of a crisis

Memphis,TN,USA -The Memphis Commercial Appeal, by Lisa Kelly Easo -August 3, 2008: -- "Fuel costs are so high that many carriers, specifically owner-operators, are having to park their trucks," said Cliff Lynch, executive vice president of Memphis-based CTSI, a logistics technology provider to the transportation industry... Filling up a typical tractor-trailer has increased 220 percent, or $950, in the last five years, according to the American Trucking Associations. As a result, some carriers have left the market while others have reduced fleet sizes, said ATA chief economist Bob Costello in a prepared statement... He said these trends are likely to continue in the near term, affecting both large and small motor carriers as well as drivers... Larger firms such as Schneider National are able to weather the storm via improved technology and logistics as well as volume buying, but many smaller trucking companies have been forced into bankruptcy, said Dan Van Alstine, senior vice president and general manager of Schneider's van truckload division... (Photo: The increase in fuel costs has been felt especially hard by truck firms and drivers, including Levell Alexander, of Schneider National)


* Minnesota’s truckers fight to stay ahead with fuel prices soaring

St. Cloud,MN,USA -The St. Cloud Times, by Charles Pulliam -August 2, 2008: -- ... “Trucking is the backbone of the Minnesota economy,” said John Hausladen, president of the Minnesota Trucking Association. Seven out of 10 communities in the state don’t have any other modes of transportation to move goods, he said... Minnesota trucks move 68 percent of the products in and out of the state’s communities, and more than 177,000 people are employed through the trucking industry, according to the MTA... “Everything you get, there is a truck involved,” said longtime trucker Mel Luebesmier, a life-long St. Cloud resident. “I don’t care if it’s a bag of peanuts and even if it did come in by rail, the trucks still moved it to its final destination.”
As for Mel, he pays for fuel out of his own pocket, totaling in the thousands each week. He is a trucker who doesn’t receive a fuel surcharge because he hauls whatever he can find in the region, to stay close to home. The major headache comes from trying to plan ahead by setting aside money to pay for future fill-ups before actually doing the driving, he said... “Mel can hold his head above water, but it’s getting worse and getting to the point where you might as well shut her down" ... (Times photo by Kimm Anderson - Semitrailers and other vehicles take a long curve through Sauk Rapids on Tuesday in this view from the Fifth Street overpass on U.S. Highway 10. Some truckers are paying as much as $1,000 each time they fill their gas tanks)

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Jul 17, 2008

TRUCKING INDUSTRY CRISIS * USA & Canada - Fuel costs, auto industry woes kill local trucking company

'Horrible' end to family-owned Kitchener firm that has been in business for over 80 years

Kitchener,ONT,CAN -The Waterloo Record (Waterloo,Ontario), by Greg Mercer -July 17, 2008: -- A family-owned trucking company with more than 80 years of history says skyrocketing fuel prices and a slowing economy have forced it off the roads and out of business... Randy Frohlich, vice-president of operations for Al's Cartage, confirmed last night that the Goodrich Drive business locked its doors yesterday... The company's fuel supplier had cut them off, he said, because Al's Cartage couldn't pay its bills... His father, company president Norm Frohlich, said the downturn in the auto industry, for which his company moved parts, and slowing cross-border trade also spelled the end... "We're flat broke," he said. "This is a sad day."... (Photo: Gasoline Tanker Station)

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Jun 29, 2008

FUEL COST CRISIS * USA - Gas prices force many to park their rigs for good

Omaha,NE,USA -The Omaha World-Herald (subscription), by VIRGIL LARSON -June 29, 2008: -- Faced with a gasoline bill of more than $1,000 to fill each truck, Frank McEvoy parked eight of his 22 semitrailer rigs and let seven employees go two months ago, just before the price of diesel fuel spiked... Frank McEvoy has parked eight of his company's 22 semitrailer rigs, downsizing because of high fuel costs. He also let seven employees go... He put the vans out to pasture. Vans and reefers — refrigerated trailers — are the most plentiful among the semis on the country's highways and the least profitable because of tough competition... "We had eight," McEvoy said. "Mr. Blue up on the hill has hundreds. I don't think we scare him too much."... "Mr. Blue" is Werner Enterprises Inc. One of the biggest U.S. carriers, its more than 7,000 trucks are instantly recognizable by their blue paint jobs... Parking the vans is McEvoy's way of surviving soaring prices for diesel fuel combined with a slackening volume of loads in a softening economy... (Photo by JEFF BEIERMANN/THE WORLD-HERALD)

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Jun 4, 2008

TRUCKING INDUSTRY CRISIS * USA - 40,000 Trucks Parked

The entire trucking industry is in a major crises

Mechanicsville,VA ,USA -Masslogics Trucking News, by LiberalTrucker -4 June 2008: -- Just compared to last year, the diesel prices in the country have gone up 60% and there is no indication that prices will be dropping. This has led the trucking industry and many other transport services to change their business practices- otherwise many will have to shut down... Diesel prices average close to $3.90 in the country and are soon going to break the $4 mark. So far many of the truckers have been bearing the cost of this increased diesel price. How long they can sustain it remains a mystery... There are not many alternatives for many truckers. Reducing fuel costs means the difference between success and bankruptcy... Many have started reducing speeds on the roads to conserve fuel and most will not drive on a half empty truck. Most load on to the maximum and even delay their trips... Many truckers are turning to the internet to find the cheapest gas. Almost all independent truckers are on a tight budget... Trucking companies going bankrupt is at an all time high. There were an estimated 42,000 trucks out of business just last year with close to a 1,000 companies closing their doors... Unfortunately this could be just the tip of the iceberg. Forecasters predict that we are in for more difficulties...

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