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UPS reaches agreement to acquire TNT's Express business: deal expected to be completed by third quarter; UPS expects significant synergies in expanding its European and global reach.
April 1, 2012... ATLANTA--In what can potentially be viewed as a significant game changer for the global logistics and express delivery sectors, UPS and Netherlands-based TNT NV, a provider of mail and courier services and the fourth largest global parcel operator, said last month that they have reached an...

Pricing across the transportation modes.(PRICE TRENDS)
April 1, 2012... TRUCKING Excluding local truckers and office/household movers, the trucking industry continues to register steady price hikes. Long-distance TL truckers reported the largest price increase in February, up 0.7% from month-ago and up 6.8% from same-month-year-ago. The pace of trucking price...

Be a life-long learner.(VIEWPOINT)
April 1, 2012... As is tradition, the cover of the April issue of Logistics Management (LM) is devoted to the findings of our Annual Salary Survey, a research project that not only fuels our best-read editorial feature of the year, but offers us the foundation for the most highly-anticipated webcast that our...

Caution ahead: fledgling CSA program suffers growing pains: the most ambitious truck safety program in a generation is leaving the industry bewildered over the exact nature of the initiative--which, according to analysts, seems to be changing continuously.(CSA UPDATE)
April 1, 2012... CSA, which stands for "Compliance, Safety, Accountability," was rolled out in phases starting in C 2011. The program is designed to weed out as many as 5 percent, or 150,000 of the nation's more than 3 million long-haul truck drivers--those "bad apples" that the government is convinced are...

Management update: an executive summary of industry news.
April 1, 2012... * Diesel prices: Seems like old times. Don't look now, but the price per gallon for diesel fuel is approaching prices that haven't been seen in nearly four years, according to data from the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA). Diesel prices topped $4 per gallon in...