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LTL is Half Full or Half Empty

Satish Jindel | Mar 15, 2010 4:00AM GMT
The Journal of Commerce Magazine - Commentary

Since trucking industry deregulation in 1980, more than 30 unionized, non-union, national and regional less-than-truckload carriers have left the market. However, only two new LTL carriers (Con-way Freight and American Freightways, now part of FedEx Freight) have entered the market. Despite this contraction, publicly held LTL carriers collectively generated a loss


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