"We haven't had word from freight yet and we've got to get the cars back, " McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh said.
The Outer Hebrides Transport Group said removing road equivalent tariff (RET) from freight would lead to a 175% increase in travel costs from April.
Now, with an increased domestic interest in ethanol and the U.S. Department of Agriculture expecting declining exports, the company will also have to contend with competition from freight trains and their easier access to mid-America.
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.
The exhibition is housed in an outdoor, temporary structure made from sea freight containers -- a reminder of the fact that the artists involved in the project come from a very poor district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.
The railway companies have put up posters aimed to deter hobos and others from riding freight trains.
Or it could be a beautiful thing, like what you see from a freight train threading woods and backyards in fall time, in summer, or anytime.
Following meetings with island councillors and haulage bosses, Transport Minister Keith Brown also agreed to commission consultants to review the impact of removing RET from large freight.
Among the most dramatic images of the day were from a freight truck depot on the south side of Dallas, where one twister flung semitrailers high in the air and hundreds of feet from their parking spots.
And thus the spectacle of slow cross-country trains that should have been allowed to die when Amtrak took over from the freight railroads in 1971 but continue to roll at the cost of vast subsidies with little or no public benefit.
By next year a quarter of Deutsche Post's turnover is expected to come from logistics (freight-forwarding and the like), up from almost nothing last year.
This weekend, the carriage of unaccompanied air freight from Yemen on passenger and courier flights was also suspended.
Most districts saw improvement in business services, a catch-all category that includes everything from accountants to freight services.
According to our estimates, Norfolk stock derives nearly 20% of its value from its construction freight and forest products divisions.
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After "eruptive activity" last year at the Cleveland volcano, University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Steve McNutt noted that 90% of air freight from Asia to Europe and North America flies over Alaska airspace, and hundreds of flights fly through Anchorage's air space daily.
Cathy Bolshaw, from Stop The Rail Freight Exchange group, called the decision "devastating for St Albans".
It was also a lifeline for industry in Clackmannanshire, with freight travelling from the Dollar coalfield to Longannet power station.
BR, is confident that he can triple rail's share of the British freight market from 6% to 18% within a decade.
Moreover, continuing shift in freight traffic from air to the sea, driven by higher fuel prices is not helping the air-cargo industry at all.
On the vast expanse of the river itself, a huge freight barge from Germany glides slowly past the city's medieval cathedral, towards the more modern structures of the chemical industries.
The model can determine the marginal value of hiring ten new drivers who live in central Illinois, say, based on the number of times that freight departs from the Midwest.
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There are also proposals for rail and road infrastructure work to improve freight links from the major terminals at Grangemouth, Mossend and Coatbridge to key points in Scotland and England.
But for some freight, from Formula One racing cars stuck in China after Sunday's Grand Prix there to flowers farmed in Kenya and destined for restaurant tables in London, there is no alternative route.
In Q2, almost all railroad companies took a beating from a slump in its coal freight businesses, but that was largely mitigated by improved performances from its other divisions.
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In Japan, rail's share of freight has dropped from 50% in 1955 to less than 5%.
EUjet flights were suspended last Tuesday but flights from other carriers, particularly freight companies, had continued.
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"But in the past we have found people hiding in an array of freight, ranging from dog biscuits, bathtubs and now coffins", he added.
The index tracks credit-card purchases of diesel fuel at truckstops across the country and provides a real-time indication of how much freight is moving from ports and factories to consumers.
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