Navistar, which makes commercial trucks, diesel engines, and buses, is benefitting from a rise in demand for freight trucks, as well as a jump in fleet utilization.
Compared with trucks, freight trains are fuel efficient, less labor intensive, safer, cheaper, and they don't clog up highways.
Roadway is a less-than-truckload carrier, meaning its trucks can carry freight for more than one customer at a time.
When compared to trucking, pipeline transportation is a staggering 16 times safer than rail, and 189 times safer than trucks when comparing freight tons shipped.
During one 20-minute stretch alone, three semi trucks from FedEx Freight and a smaller truck from Advanced Logistics trundled around to the back of a distribution center owned by Quanta.
After levelling off in March, the amount of goods hauled by trucks - known as freight volumes - fell once again in April and May.
According to Manuel Gomez, president of Mexico's road-freight industry body, Canacar, there are 375, 000 trucks in Mexico and some 7m in the United States.
As measured by ton-miles, trucks controlled 32% of the nation's freight in 2002, the most recent year statistics are available, while trains delivered 28%.
These are the impediments to the movement of people and goods brought on by Sept. 11: the wasted hours of employees showing IDs to get into their building, the delays at the airport, the backlog of trucks at the border, the increased cost of air freight, the dead weight of higher insurance premiums.
These are the impediments to the movement of people and goods brought on by Sept. 11: the wasted hours of employees showing proof of identification to get in their building, the delays at the airport, the backlog of trucks at the border, the increased cost of air freight, the dead weight of higher insurance premiums.
Trucks are the real competition, and anything that takes more freight off the highways and on to the safer and more environmentally friendly tracks is welcome.
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Freight transport accounts for 40% of the growth in demand, partly because trucks are growing more efficient at a slower rate than cars.
Sales of medium and heavy trucks and buses plunged 39% to 19, 095 vehicles, hurt by slowing economic growth, reduced freight transportation, and lower demand in sectors such as mining.
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