TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA - Analyst predicts “freight pricing renaissance”

Are trucking rates at rock bottom? Freight buyers take note ... Newton,MA,USA -Reuters/Purchasing, by Dave Hannon -13 June 2008: -- ... Analyst Jon Langenfeld of Robert W. Baird predicted a “freight pricing renaissance” next year ... conference with a note to clients that says, “When the domestic freight environment does rebound [more...]

Date: 2008-06-16 14:01:46

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~ Freight rates set to rise

The trucking industry’s customers will have to pay higher freight rates to reflect the spiralling price of diesel, the Chairman of the Australian Trucking Association, Trevor Martyn, warned. Martyn said the retail price of diesel was now more than 180 cents per litre in some capital cities, compared to about 134 [more...]

Date: 2008-05-22 10:14:18

TRUCKER4S' PROTEST * Taiwan - Highway freight rates poised to go up soon

The government will let highway freight companies increase transport service charges but turned down trucking firms' requests for subsidies in fuel ... with banners calling for “fair treatment” from the government. They demanded a hike in freight rates ... burden... In order to stay in business, three highway freight associations had submitted a plan [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 14:17:59

Tonnage Slightly Up

ATA is reporting a slight increase in freigth tonnage two months in a row following three straight months of decline ... many trucks going after too little freight, rates drop as truckers take anything to survive. Other ... upturn appears to be only temporary. Trucking news: ATA says seasonally-adjusted for-hire Truck [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 11:55:25

No returns for any reason all sales

Electrical parts of any kind are sold as is! New seals and gaskets should be installed and inspected to avoid unnecessary labor ... freight collect, AMPAll Mustang, cannot and will not guarantee rates! Due to the high of wood ... . All truck freight items will have to be prepaid in full by cash, cashiers check or money order [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 02:43:50

CRISIL says truck sales will drop till at least 2009-10

CRISIL has put out a report saying that auto sales slowdown in India is likely to persist till 2009-10 ... . Transporters have deferred purchases despite stable freight rates, with rising cost of ownership impacting ... concerns, freight rates are expected to decline in the second half of 2008-09, further affecting [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 09:28:00

ATA against shutdown

The Australian Trucking Association says it does not support the trucking industry shutdowns that some people are proposing for the two weeks from ... with their customers to increase their freight rates or impose a fuel surcharge. “Some companies will need to increase their freight rates by more than 20 per cent; and most importantly, refuse to [more...]

Date: 2008-06-29 00:59:37

Can Independent Truckers Survive the Sky-High Cost of Diesel?

Think you’ve got it tough? Spending up to $80 bucks to fill your tank with gasoline? ~ Isabel Lyman Consider my husband’s numbers ... for hauling freight were high. (Freight rates have remained ... from clothing to vegetables to tires. He’s also partial to trucking’s masculine, no-frills culture [more...]

Date: 2008-06-03 00:45:18

Truckers Strike 2008: A Salute And Links

A Salute To The American Trucker: ... at garnering national mainstream attention to soaring fuel prices and low freight rates. In Indiana ... said. With trucking companies already committed to the roll on Washington, 50 is a minimal number [more...]

Date: 2008-04-18 00:16:07

ATA condemns shut down violence threat

The organisers of this week’s trucking industry shutdown should abandon their plans if they cannot guarantee the safety of drivers who are not ... their customers in the form of increased freight rates ... involved, the Chairman of the Australian Trucking Association, Trevor Martyn, said [more...]

Date: 2008-07-27 19:43:53

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Date: 2008-08-14 00:32:43

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Date: 2008-09-19 12:38:41

FUEL COST TROUBLES * WORLDWIDE

* Australia - Trucks run dry The spiralling cost of fuel is hitting motorists hard, but it's hitting the 47, ... to increase his freight rates... Many small operators and owner drivers have been trying to absorb ... their contracts... There are companies that will need to increase their freight rates by more than 10 per [more...]

Date: 2008-05-26 23:22:52

TRUCKING INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE * Inida - Diesel blow: Road freight set to go up

New Delhi,Inida -The Times of India, by Pankaj Doval -6 Jun 2008: -- Road freight charges are set to go up by 3-4%, ... lead to a hike of as much as 8-10% on road freight rates... Rohan Sahani, an independent trucker ... operators, freight charges will be revised but will not be big... Transport Corporation of India (TCI [more...]

Date: 2008-06-06 13:40:52

Factoring Company – Commercial Credit

If you’re new business selling on credit terms is very promising and need capitals to make it growth better well don’t worry ... Distributors,  Freight & Trucking, Export Trade Finance, Government Contracts, Manufacturers ... rules or biased rates. As one of the biggest factoring company, they give a lot of services [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 14:17:03

On The Road Week 38 - Daniel Audet

“On the Road” with the original florida kid…… Hello again fellow truckstars! It’s week 38 and….you’re on the road with the original florida kid…. ... .) Tommy’s trucking co. he’s worked for for a long time is goin’ belly up due to high fuel costs, low freight rates and a slow-down in freight loads….he needs a couple of shots, he’s got kids……(don’t [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 06:37:46

See No Depression

h/t some guy on Sadly: Numbers racket: Why the economy is worse than we know—By Kevin P. Phillips (Harper’s Magazine) ... by increasing demand for staples and increasing expense for food and freight trucking, the basic issues ... the U5/6 figures, for instance, our unemployment rates look typical of West Africa - but we’ve [more...]

Date: 2008-07-13 06:59:12

Fuel crisis affects truckers worldwide

In recent days, two truckers have died in massive fuel protests in Europe, including one driver from Spain, who was run over by a van as he, ... aren’t met. In each country, the protesting truckers are seeking higher freight rates, a fuel ... are striking because fuel prices have skyrocketed, but the trucking companies they drive for can’ [more...]

Date: 2008-06-15 06:51:48

Support for emissions trading proposal

The ATA has confirmed its support for the Australian Government’s proposals on how to deal with transport fuels in its emissions trading scheme ... with climate change by reviewing their freight rates. ATA Chairman Trevor Martyn said that the inclusion ... do not require trucking companies to buy carbon permits although the Government has indicated it [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 21:33:25

Freight Volumes Down, Space Tight

It’s an uncertain time in the freight market. Ocean imports are down, exports are up, ... utilization (and hence trucking rates) up. As transport costs have risen, global companies have begun ... domestic trucking is down in overall volume but up in intermodal as companies seek the economies [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 12:15:42

recommend FedEx offers you two expedited

Start your search online for companies that expedite freight. 2 ... . expeditesolutions. com Expedited Trucking Search Thousands of Shipments. www. ShippingQuotes. Org ... by names that you can trust. Save This Share This Rate This Sponsored Links Expedited Trucking Time [more...]

Date: 2008-09-20 04:53:14

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper

The Chairman of the ATA, Trevor Martyn, said including the transport sector in the forthcoming emissions trading scheme was much better for the ... their freight rates or impose a fuel surcharge; and refuse to accept jobs that do not pay enough ... trucking industry than the alternative – the imposition of complex regulations that would strangle [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 18:29:16

A Government Bailout That Worked

A trucking company owner (whose trucks operate on state-built, state-owned highways) ... , at the same time, gave railroads more authority to set their own freight rates. After 45 months ... a reputation for providing fast and reliable freight service. In 1981 Conrail captured the Golden [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 09:00:00

The excess freight that

Why does it make sense for Steve to lease his trucks to another carrier for lesser rate? MSL even carries its own MCC number for brokering loads!! Any employee of his company can as broker agent under his license. But why on earth would want ... on going back at any time. even offered to attend week long training class to myself up to speed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 13:15:00

FUEL COST TROUBLES * USA - Fuel or Sex ... !!! ???

* A choice that no one should have to make Reno,Nev,USA -AOL NEWS/Pafoa ... at wholesale rates or afford trucks with better technology to control speed and other functions ... without paid freight. The truckers that remain in the industry are having to make adjustments to survive [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 20:06:44

Environmental Racism

I live in an unjust American landscape. The people in my church live in one of Atlanta’s urban sacrifice zones ... . The city and county have permitted large freight operations and trucking operations to locate ... developments but still reliant on walking, they are killed by cars at rates six times higher than whites [more...]

Date: 2008-04-30 07:00:09

A Tough Road for Truckers

During conversations with trucking executives earlier in the year, ... it’s real. Our customers stop at the fuel pump on their way home and they experience it.” Trucking ... to give. “You essentially have two components of the freight bill: the basic line-haul rate and the fuel [more...]

Date: 2008-06-01 22:46:47

The Trucks Are Coming to NYC, But NYCDOT Solutions Aren’t

Even as NYCDOT’s Office of Freight Mobility continues to stall on implementation of strategies to reduce the impact of city truck traffic, the number of trucks entering the city is growing, and at a much faster rate than overall traffic, according to NYMTC’s annual Truck Toll Volume Trends. Annual truck traffic on major tolled East [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 20:30:09

Telco 2.0 Use Case: Trading Hub for the Transport Industry

Telco 2.0 readers will be well aware that we’re very keen on any application that uses telco capabilities to remove friction and inefficiency from ... , and unsurprisingly the answer was to drop freight rates dramatically. Any price at all was better ... more broadly. At first sight, the economics of a truck route would seem trivially simple; you pay [more...]

Date: 2008-07-02 18:18:36

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper

The Australian Trucking Association has welcomed the Government’s plan to include the transport sector in its forthcoming emissions trading scheme ... with their customers to increase their freight rates or impose a fuel surcharge; and refuse to accept ... in the scheme was much better for the trucking industry than the alternative, the imposition [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 02:19:19

Filled with features that

All trademarks listed are the property of their respective owners. Learn more about TransCores trucking dispatch software. All rights reserved ... rich.. Whether you are truckload or LTL carrier, our 3sixty Operations Management software ... ratings, Freight Match gives you the Designed to provide value to growing companies, the DATConnect load [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 09:31:38

No weight limits Offers refrigerated van

Flatbed Trucking Quickly find flat bed trucking companies and the packaging you can apply to lower your shipping rates. www. ohionorthern ... and specialized trailers. full truck all to yourself is full truck load, or LTL. recommend ... . combinedtransport. com Core Carriers Provides flatbed and specialized trailers. Specializes in refrigerated freight [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 20:46:07

consider attending twoday Trucking Success Workshop for

Call Encon Commercial, Inc. information on this side of trucking ... out this website for Carriers How to Broker License Hello ... shippers, freight rate development, contract negotiations with shippers and brokers and sales and marketing [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 06:29:45

FULFILLMENT SERVICES v. UPS

FULFILLMENT SERVICES v. UPS June 9th, 2008 The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today released an opinion in FULFILLMENT SERVICES v. UPS, No ... of shipping rates in the trucking industry. In particular, we consider whether, under § 14704 ... § 13501. Fulfillment Services, Inc., a freight ship. . . Posted in Federal | Comments Off [more...]

Date: 2008-06-09 10:00:00

Planes, Trains, and Trucks

Planes, Trains, and Trucks Posted on May 27, 2008 by JR Soaring Fuel Prices Take a Withering Toll on Truckers By LOUIS UCHITELLE May 27, ... freight rates, and Northwest recently shrank its cargo fleet to 12 planes. Filed under: Airlines ... from, say, Chicago to Los Angeles. Still, 70 percent of the nation’s freight tonnage moves over [more...]

Date: 2008-05-27 13:00:58

Trucking software including dispatch software fleet maintenance

Fleet and vehicle reports and much more. Lawn mowers to learjets Compufleet can do it. A Solutions Construction Inc. pComputer Support, Inc ... . We are the 1 trucking factor source for rates, service, and cash ... industry. makers of the Professional Series of asset management software. FREE How to survive as freight [more...]

Date: 2008-09-20 08:40:52

If its good fit there

www. axonsoftware. comPaid Axon Trucking Software With Dispatch Full featured trucking company management software from Axon includes dispatch, AR, ... Transportation Software LoadTech System for carriers, 3PL brokers, LTL, TL, Intermodal, more www ... maintenance, load building, load consolidation, freight rating, logistics, and third party logistics. [more...]

Date: 2008-07-06 20:02:53

Think you pay a lot for a fill-up? Imagine how truck drivers must feel

A big rig with two 150-gallon tanks can cost as much as $1,400 to fill up these days ... because the rates they're being paid to haul freight are not increasing as diesel costs continue ... - there's no trucking company to cover their expense. read more [more...]

Date: 2008-06-05 04:18:06

Colombian Truckers' Strike Might Restrict Coal Exports

Colombian truckers, protesting low trucking fees, have limited thermal coal movements from inland Colombian states to ports at Buenaventura, Venezuela, and the Caribbean. Coal exports have not yet been affected due to adequate port stockpiles of Colombian coal, but exports and Atlantic basin freight rates will come down in the short [more...]

Date: 2008-08-03 10:56:59

Oil prices and economy expected to batter freight transportation stocks (Transportation-Result)

MONTREAL _ Rapidly rising fuel prices and the sluggish North American economy are expected to hurt truck and train companies` second-quarter results, says RBC Capital analyst Walter Spracklin.Declining freight volumes, the impact of foreign exchange rates and significant flooding in parts of the U.S. Midwest have created a pessimistic sentiment [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 20:31:19

Trucking Comments * USA - Execs talk on reasons for another weak Peak season

Washington,DC,USA -Logistics Management, by John D. Schulz -17 Sept 2008: -- The peak is weak, according to many trucking executives accustomed to being able to generate higher rates during the usual September-to-December surge in freight demand, which has not occurred the past three years [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 12:59:39

Truck Tonnage Jumps

ATA Truck Tonnage Index Jumped 2.2% in April “There’s a significant amount of freight to be hauled from this much stronger economy, ... economy and the trucking industry. “Solid manufacturing production, inventory rebuilding, and strong ... , rising rates should follow, right? [more...]

Date: 2004-06-08 04:00:00

TRUCKERS' PROTEST * Australia - Truck Drivers Protest Fuel Prices

Mathaba,Australia -Mathaba.Net -25 June 2008: -- Australia's National Secretary of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) ... said truckies need to: ... "Some companies will need to increase their freight rates by more than 20 ... recovery" action by the Australian regime... The TWU National Secretary told that "in the trucking industry [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 19:18:58

Some companies are lowering their

But, since customers figure trucking companies overall must be desperate for any load they can theyre squeezing their carriers to push down rates ... and their insurance rates are higher, Scherck said. Advertise About Us The national economy is slowing, so freight ... . 17, Stevens Transport prospering amid tough times for trucking industry Dallas [more...]

Date: 2008-07-13 21:19:59

Response to Liberaltrucker - “Ban independent…”

OTRJoe Response to “Ban Independent Truck Drivers…” The Port of LA is a complex issue ... carriers will have higher haul rates to move the freight, thus raising the transportation costs which [more...]

Date: 2008-05-21 16:11:44

Fuel Goes Sky High

View Larger Map I’m trying to not look at the trucking news while I’m sitting here in New Jersey waiting for a load ... 5.5 mpg it costs $0.82 cents a mile just for fuel. Rates aren’t much higher. The rates I’ve ... for fuel. So, my rate hasn’t been horrible, but the lack of freight makes up for it. I’m about to start [more...]

Date: 2008-05-21 22:49:40

www axonsoftware comPaid Axon Trucking

Developer of dispatch software, Dispatch Expresstm. www. miracleservice ... , load building, load consolidation, freight rating, logistics, and third party logistics. Products… [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 05:22:03

The Truck Driving Career; Part 2

“SEE THE COUNTRY AND GET PAID!” If you decide to stick with it at least a year you will see many great sights out on the road ... ? Do you know Owner Operator rates vary depending on the load, weight, location, and freight. While lease ... against those places, but that is where most of the freight runs and where you’ll see most of your miles [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 18:07:58

Lowest Freight Quotes with Truckspeedia

on time in the most cost efficient way. There’s only one way for that to happen, that is getting the best trucking services in the country ... of hard-working, highly rated carriers. They can handle LTL and FTL shipments requiring Reefers ... . Truckspeedia looks for the lowest freight quotes by matching with qualified carriers who are returning home [more...]

Date: 2008-05-19 23:18:44

Lynden Transport First Alaska-Based Trucking Company to Join EPA's SmartWay Environmental Partnership

Company rated 'exceptional' in fuel efficiency and environmental performance ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept ... to voluntarily improve fuel efficiency and reduce air pollution from freight transport. Partners ... capabilities include: truckload and less-than-truckload transportation, scheduled and charter barges, rail [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 13:34:57

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