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Getting Rates Right

William B. Cassidy | Nov 16, 2009 4:38PM GMT
The Journal of Commerce Magazine - News Story
Deep discounting slashes LTL profits; YRC’s struggle recasts pricing strategies

Deep discounting slashed less-than-truckload rates in the third quarter as carriers tried to knock the nation’s largest LTL trucker, YRC Worldwide, out of business. No one delivered that knockout punch, leaving some of the bigger discounters with thinner profits and


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