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Discount Shipping June 17th, 2008 - 0005 No matter how high the gas prices might rise, Freight & Shipping, Inc. will still have the very best shipping rates of any other logistics or forwarding company in the world. That’s because we have over sixty major trucking companies in our database, and because [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 05:05:56

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Wednesday morning headlines

Market turns back: Just a few minutes ago, the Dow was down more than 140 points, much of it in response to the still-tight credit conditions. Then it came back and now it’s off by 75. Unbelievable. Drowning in debt: Roughly 16 percent of the 75.5 million U.S. homeowners owe more than their properties are worth, according to Moody's Economy.com [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 16:42:04

US in recession, is economy effects moving companies?

Generally economy leads into recession when business slows down, business reduce there capital goods investment, lay-offs, increase in inflation, ... when the freight movement is cheaper with better quality. Reducing the cost of carriage and thus efficiently ... to achieve its economic goals. For this, efficient freight movers are necessary for its [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 18:38:35

Scratch Free Auto Shipping - Growing in Trust

Car shipping and transport have been a recent addition to the automotive industry and has grown explosively with the streamlined flow of internet revolution. Freight shipping did exist before, but this method of transporting a vehicle ... , these companies work to make sure that with competitive market rates and worry free friendly service [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 19:17:47

Roller coaster diesel prices may be masking a new carrier pricing cycle

They took off like a rocket and fell like a stone. The spike and subsequent plunge in diesel prices over the last six months has quieted many ... industry and most recently ran Con-way Freight, is now advising some of our clients ... . —— Before the spike, carriers had been chasing a declining level of tonnage, keeping rates low [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 17:17:06

One Person’s Answer to the Driver Shortage

This white paper that this article is talking about is at www.trincon.com and is worth the 5 page download in Adobe format ... the best. No time for cowboys …trucking will never cure driver turnover until it starts turning to a new breed of employee. “Trucking executives must be visionary and meet their demands for drivers [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 06:28:51

How the financial crisis affects car haulers

First of all, the scarcity of money-- the so-called "liquidity crisis" makes deals on major equipment harder to complete ... your truck, because the person buying your truck has the same problem. There are fewer buyers ... for your business. That's never a good thing. Consider the rates that GE Credit is offering today in their fleet [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 22:59:00

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 06 & SUNDAY 07, 2008

THIS SITE SUPPORTS ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL POLICE DEPARTMENTS, EMS CREWS, IN ADDITION TO ALL SERVING IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, NO MATTER WHERE YOU MAY BE.EMO in N.B. issues storm advisory The New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization issued a weather advisory regarding tropical storm Hanna for people living in the southern part of [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 15:58:00

Decline, Fall, and Ignorance

by John Galt September 8, 2008 I thought the America I knew and loved died on September 11, 2001. I was wrong. We came together. We fought. We clawed our way out of the hole. Seven years later, we have achieved on our own what one million screaming ragheads never could have dreamed of doing. We became Marxists today [more...]

Date: 2008-09-08 04:50:32

TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA -

* Con-Way, Old Dominion, Truckers Fall as Demand Sags New York,NY,USA -Bloomberg, by Angela Greiling Keane -Oct. 2, 2008: -- Con-way Inc. and Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. led declines among U.S. trucking companies, pulling ... for diminished freight volumes that will hinder price increases as the industry struggles with elevated fuel [more...]

Date: 2008-10-04 15:45:58

Holding on … but barely

“I love this business and this industry … but we need help.” –Todd Staege, owner of trucking company TW Express Inc., Viroqua, WI ... economic outlook where trucking is concerned. From where he sits with his company’s two trucks ... (OOIDA), fuel surcharges have long been the primary mechanism for trucking companies to respond [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 12:19:29

A heavy string of hope around my neck

I often wear denim to work at the shelter on the Saturdays that I am not in class. I drive our truck to pick up donations and I tend to get messy. It’s not the type of day where I can get away with wearing a coat and a tie. I do not mind one bit. In my heart, I am a denim kind of guy. I always have been [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 02:05:00

DrumBeat: October 21, 2008

As Oil Prices Drop, OPEC Ponders Tough Solutions At the beginning of the year, OPEC producers felt confident that strong economic growth and tight supplies would keep oil prices high. When oil crossed the $100-a-barrel threshold in February, the cartel’s president blamed speculators and said there was not much OPEC could do [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 13:15:19

Quit deadheading and fill your empty trucks with

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Date: 2008-10-22 03:26:08

Where to Drive? - Off Road Radio Control Car Track Sydney - Eagle Farm Windsor

For most of this year the family and I have been enjoying the use of the Off Road Radio Control Car track out at Eagle Farm two minutes out of ... at a very good rate. If you're quite new to nitro buggies or truggies you will find it invaluable ... ; fixing your car and the especially positioned freight container makes for an awesome driving view [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 08:52:40

DrumBeat: September 16, 2008

Oil at 7-month low on Wall Street woes Crude futures fall more than $4 a barrel as economic concerns fuel market fears that demand for energy will not recover any time soon. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices settled at a seven-month low Tuesday as the meltdown on Wall Street pulled the oil market's focus to the economic slowdown that has [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 14:05:01

GAO - Identifying Costs and Cautions of Highway Privatization

In its latest report on highway privatization, the GAO is mostly upbeat about the benefits of public-private partnerships in building and managing highways - but it also issues some strong warnings of serious problems that states are mostly ignoring. By the way, the Senate Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 00:07:45

Liming, The Best Value in 2008

Liming, The Best Value in 2008 November 3, 2008 Written By: Craig Dick If you have acidic soils there is no better time to lime than this year. With phosphates and potash at all time highs, lime is comparatively cheap. Not to mention ... is only 50% effective, but you'll pay the truck freight for the whole ton. Since SuperCal 98G [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 06:00:00

Virtual IT: Deconstructing Infrastructure

Yet another step in our journey at looking at future-state IT in five short years. The first two posts (here and here) spoke largely about how the business will view IT, and how IT might come to think of itself. The third post dealt with the first of several important constructs (orchestration) [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 18:07:04

Truck Driver Reality: It’s Not a Slam Dunk

Wayne Weisser is a long haul trucker based out of Las Vegas ... over at Adventures in Trucking. For anyone who wants to learn about trucker’s issues today ... . But it makes them look good when a customer calls up and they need a truck and the trucking company can say, “ [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 13:17:58

I told ya so

Quote: Originally Posted by JHC (Post 789095) The questions are many actually. Probably the most important question ( ... ). The Federal Reserve ratchets up interest rates to put the breaks on what is perceived ... economic information? Well yes it does - a housing boom spurred by low interest rates. The largest [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 16:00:56

SPEECH: Setting the course for a return to growth

Speech to the Road Transport Forum Annual Conference Energy Events Centre, Rotorua It's good to be at the Road Transport Forum Annual Conference. The people in this room understand what makes the New Zealand economy tick. You represent hard-working truck drivers, small and large business owners, and everyday Kiwis from up and down [more...]

Date: 2008-09-20 23:29:27

PACCAR Third Quarter Results

"In these turbulent times, PACCAR is experiencing lower truck demand in Europe, Mexico and Australia, and continued softness in the U.S. and Canada, which will reduce financial results in the fourth quarter of 2008 and into 2009." Thus speaks Mark Piggott, and we respond with words to the effect of if you can't sell much in Europe, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 12:32:18

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

MONTREAL _ Rapidly rising fuel prices and the sluggish North American economy are expected to batter 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 [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 22:42:32

Bigger trucks revisited

“Meeting the freight transportation needs of a growing economy in a safe and efficient manner is the challenge for all of us ... speeding up freight transit times. “As part of the Department of Transportation’s Congestion ... on the roadway, and the proximity of large freight generators [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 12:56:29

Trucking is Lost

Trucking as an industry is lost. From A Courtesy Flush. I’ve always liked and mostly agreed with this driver’s viewpoint ... as we used to be. Trucking and drivers are lost. Lost in the fog of misdirection. Fuel prices skyrocketed and drivers got lost in the story of how the Evil Oil Companies are destroying trucking [more...]

Date: 2008-08-03 15:46:51

Long Island on the Issues: Assm. Michelle Schimel vs. Matthew Mitchell (Assembly District 16)

Some of the most contentious transportation discussions in the region are taking place on Long Island ... are some of the highlights: Matthew Mitchell Mr. Mitchell offered few specific statements on transportation policy, but said he is “always open to learn about initiatives to improve transportation flow in New York [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 16:31:25

Belarus and the global economic crisis; EU dialogues, EurAsEC, Transplantology, Breakthrough innovation; Russia, Ukraine, Polish scandal and more…

From the Top...#350Alexander Lukashenko: adequate measures are needed to respond to increasing number of threatsFrom: BelTA and the Office of the PresidentPresident Alexander Lukashenko meets with the senior staff of the State Security CommitteeThe range of foreign and domestic threats Belarus faces is expanding and it requires working out [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 12:50:00

Grubb & Ellis Realty Investors Acquires 1650 Sunflower in Orange County, CA

SANTA ANA, CA/PRNewswire/ -- Grubb & Ellis Realty Investors, LLC thas acquired 1650 Sunflower, (middle left site map) ... includes an approximately 109,000-square-foot sorting and distribution center and a vehicle maintenance ... property's location enables Federal Express to receive and ship freight from both John Wayne Airport [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 20:32:00

Senate agrees with harmonized trucking regs, new technology incentives.

07/21/2008 Today's Trucking.com OTTAWA -- A Senate committee on transportation is recommending that the federal government approve several crucial trucking initiatives urged on by the industry. The report -- titled Time for a New ... -- recommends that Ottawa support the adoption of new environmental technologies as demanded the trucking [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 17:24:58

DrumBeat: June 3, 2008

Chile truckers launch strike to protest fuel prices SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Thousands of Chilean drivers parked their trucks along national highways on Tuesday to protest soaring fuel prices in a tacit rejection of government fuel subsidies announced amid fanfare this week [more...]

Date: 2008-06-03 13:07:13

Dorgan attempts to stop Cross Border Program once again

Senator Byron Lesly Dorgan, jumping at the command of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, offered an amendment to the 2009 Transportation Appropriations Bill aimed at shutting down the successful Mexican Cross Border Demonstration Truck Program. Of course, Hoffa and OOIDA are praising [more...]

Date: 2008-07-12 14:33:55

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Date: 2008-10-15 16:08:37

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Date: 2008-11-06 20:19:19

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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Date: 2008-09-14 20:48:00

iww leads truckers strike against high fuel prices at stockton, ca intermodal freight yards

from the Industrial Workers of the World: Stockton Truckers Call Out the Industry with 400 on Strike Submitted by intexile on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 5: ... the rates paid for hauling a container. The second biggest demand is a fuel surcharge of upwards of 55%. The brokers currently pay surcharges varying from 30-40%. If drivers can keep the trucking bos [more...]

Date: 2008-05-20 19:49:06

Concern for nations outside magic circle

Concern for nations outside magic circleBy Krishna Guha and Alan Beattie in WashingtonPublished: October 30 2008 23:25 | Last updated: October 30 2008 23:25Moves by the Federal Reserve and International Monetary Fund to make dollars available quickly and without conditions to a select group of emerging markets raise questions about the impact on [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 14:48:00

Dow Does it Again...Tack on Another 25%

armleg Heading into today's FOMC meeting on interest rates, ... . Do you think a hike in interest rates if that were to come, maybe not at this meeting, but at a future meeting ... the risk that by raising rates, you may actually cause some demand to go week weaker. I think [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 17:40:36

Take Tour Save This

www. averittexpress. com www. coastalcarriers. com Compass Consolidators Specialist in domestic trailerload, boxcar and stack train services. Van, flatbed and refrigerated trucking. One call for all shipments to and from Canada. www. roadtex. com LTL Shipping Simple Freight Shipping. www. bendertransportation. com Bestway Transport, Inc [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 22:19:24

Intermodal by sea?

“Coastal shipping could complement – not compete with – trucking and rail. This is especially critical given current pressures on the trucking industry, such as rising fuel ... like the intermodal partnerships that exist between the trucking and railroad industry, this one would benefit [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 06:47:32

Intermodal by sea?

“Coastal shipping could complement – not compete with – trucking and rail. This is especially critical given current pressures on the trucking industry, such as rising fuel ... like the intermodal partnerships that exist between the trucking and railroad industry, this one would benefit [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 17:49:18

Teresi Trucking provides flatbed

Site provides satellite tracking. Nolan Transport Were there is the promise of Nolan Transport, family run, satellite linked truckload carrier, ... Expedited trucking for air and ground freight. Site provides satellite tracking. Nolan Transport Were ... Freight Service Trucking fleet transportation specializing in flatbed, dry van, dedicated fleets [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 05:11:15

The Weekly Carboholic: anti-oil speculator resolution useless political theater

On June 26, the United States House of Representatives passed HR 6377, a resolution that requires the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to use all of its authority, including emergency powers if appropriate, to manage energy commodities. The resolution passed the House 402-19. This resolution is political theater [more...]

Date: 2008-07-02 12:30:32

DrumBeat: April 14, 2008

Fears emerge over Russia’s oil output Russian oil production has peaked and may never return to current levels, one of the country’s top energy executives has warned, fuelling concerns that the world’s biggest oil producers cannot keep up with rampant Asian demand [more...]

Date: 2008-04-14 13:06:18

DrumBeat: April 14, 2008

Fears emerge over Russia’s oil output Russian oil production has peaked and may never return to current levels, one of the country’s top energy executives has warned, fuelling concerns that the world’s biggest oil producers cannot keep up with rampant Asian demand [more...]

Date: 2008-04-14 13:06:18

Label: P.a.m Cost Of Diesel Has Been Destroyed?

Label: P.a.m Cost Of Diesel Has Been Destroyed? Posted By Jim Arnold, on @ 6:51 am by Jim Arnold, ... diesel costs for the destruction of PAM The transportation company reported a second quarter net ... has had a serious impact to the tune of $4.4 million. The decreasing truckload freight demand and competitive [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 11:51:37

‘I made a mistake,’ admits Greenspan

‘I made a mistake,’ admits GreenspanBy Alan Beattie and James Politi in WashingtonPublished: October 23 2008 17:37 | Last updated: October 23 2008 21:26Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said on Thursday the credit crisis had exceeded anything he had imagined and admitted he was wrong to think that banks would protect themselves [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 14:54:00

OPINIONS * USA - Logistics, truck firms fret over economy, fuel

Chicago,ILL,USA -Reuters, by Nick Carey -Oct 6, 2008: -- High fuel costs and uncertainty over the U.S. economy's outlook are among the top concerns of logistics and U.S. trucking companies, according ... costs, and high fuel prices... In a separate survey of more than 5,000 trucking sector executives [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 11:13:18

Weekly Market Update Report

Perishables & Non-PerishablesDATE: October 1, 2008DairyBUTTER: The butter market closed for the week at $1.7475. The weekly average for Grade AA is $1.7395 (+.0475). During the week, the CME cash butter price remained firm and increased to the highest level since December 2004, but declined 1 3/4 cents on Friday to close the week at $1.7475 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 16:51:00

BusinessWeek Opinion: Welcome to the Frozen Economy

I read this interesting opinion piece in BusinessWeek last night; it strikes on many chords we've been both predicting and outlining over the past year+ of time in the blog. I always like to know the background of the writer of opinions soShoshana Zuboff is the author of The Support Economy: [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 09:30:00

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