The Kansas City Business Journal reports that area trucking companies are getting ready for more lean times during a freigh recession.
“Transportation giant YRC Worldwide Inc. will attempt to reduce costs in the coming year by $100 million, which Chairman and CEO Bill Zollars said will include cutting an undetermined number of jobs. YRC employs about 2,600 people in the metro area.
Liberty-based American Central Transport’s 380-truck fleet is about 10 percent smaller than at the same time last year, COO Tom Kretsinger Jr. said.”
Find out more about this trend at the Kansas City Business Journal
October 1, 2008 at 3:32 am
Raise the rates! this has been the same reason that has cost thousands of job’s and keep’s the ROI in the trucking industry so low.