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LTL carriers prefer a shipment of one pallet containing many boxes shrink wrapped to form one piece rather than many individual pieces. This reduces handling costs and the risk of damage during transit. Typically, the per-pound rates of LTL carriers are less than the per-pound rates of parcel carriers. [5]
In 1957, Old Dominion extended its operations to most major markets in North Carolina and southern Virginia. Five years later, in 1962, the company relocated its headquarters to High Point, North Carolina and merged with Bottoms-Fiske trucking company. [20] [7] Between 1969 and 1979, the company acquired several competing trucking lines.
The National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Inc. (NMFTA)™ is a nonprofit membership organization headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.Since 1956, NMFTA has represented the interests of the less-than-truckload (LTL) motor carrier industry, and for-hire interstate and intrastate carriers.
Celadon Group, Inc. was a truckload shipping company located in Indianapolis, Indiana.It was one of the ten largest truckload carriers in North America and at its peak operated 4,000 trucks and owned an additional 11,000 trucks through Quality Equipment, its leasing division.
Aterian Investment Partners, a private equity firm from New York, announced its acquisition of Chattanooga-based Xpress Global Systems, LLC (XGS), an LTL carrier focused on carpet and other floor ...
By 2018, truckload carrier Motor Carrier Services (MCS) and LTL carrier Ross Express were also under the same ownership as Pitt Ohio [20] as well as technology company Logiflow. [citation needed] In 2021, Pitt Ohio sold its interests in ECM, MCS, and Palmetto State Transportation. [20] In July 2022, Pitt Ohio acquired all assets from Teal Express.
Roadway Express, Inc. was an American less than truckload (LTL) trucking company. Roadway Express and its holding company, Roadway Corporation, were acquired by logistics holding company Yellow Corporation in 2003, and the parent companies were merged to form Yellow Roadway Corporation, later renamed YRC Worldwide.
Indiana earned several high marks, with the state having the nation’s second-best roads and the third-steepest decline in traffic deaths, a 17% drop from 2021 to 2022, the study found.