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When trucking analysts talk about the need to reduce capacity in the industry to bolster rates, revenue and stock value, it's important to remember that capacity has a name. In Duluth, Minn., it's Monson Trucking. <a>Monson</a> is shutting down Aug. 31 after 94 years as a family-owned business employing 200 people in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Its been hauling freight since the horse wagon days, through four generations of Monson family ownership. Read an article about the shutdown from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune <a>here</a>. Monson is a union company, and its employees recently agreed to a pay...

When trucking analysts talk about the need to reduce capacity in the industry to bolster rates, revenue and stock value, it's important to remember that &quot;capacity&quot; has a name.

Goodbye to Monson Trucking

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