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Pricing for Profitability

Satish Jindel | Nov 29, 2010 5:00AM GMT

The Journal of Commerce Magazine - Commentary

The less-than-truckload industry is facing numerous challenges to achieve growth and profitability. The most common concerns cited are overcapacity and too many large competitors. Yet none is more critical to the industry’s prosperity than its badly broken pricing structure. Since trucking deregulation in 1980, the LTL industry has had the

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