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Trucking Company Officials Amazed

Monday, October 4th, 2010

American logistics professionals will be interested in the news that the first all-electric drive walk-in transport vehicle was introduced to stunned crowds this week during the Hybrid Truck Users Forum meeting in Dearborn, Michigan. Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation, Morgan Olson and Enova Systems introduced the new Class 4 MT-EV transport vehicle to interested professionals and Americans on hand for the forum and showed off the vehicles new exterior and interior styling. The MT-EV comes with a purpose-built drive system and lightweight aerodynamic design for high efficiency during transport and is composed of durable composites that can be recycled into other products.

The freight forwarding professionals in the office would probably love to take the MT-EV for a drive down the road, just to see how it handle, and check out the other features of this new hybrid transport vehicle. The cab of the MT-EV features a design more in tune with the interior of a car, which should make it more comfortable for the driver, and hopefully in the end more productive for the transport industry of the United States of America as we enter the second decade of the century of the environment. The engineers have designed the MT-EV to be the rugged transport vehicle required to get the cargo to destination, while maintaining the maximum cargo capacity of the unit, and maximizing the comfort of the driver.

Professionals in the business of international shipping and other transport professionals that want to check out the new MT-EV should check out the company reports of Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation, Morgan Olson and Enova Systems for more information. You might find the new MT-EV is a transport vehicle you can use in your business operations.

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Freight Forwarders Watching Carefully

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Professionals in the business of freight forwarding will be interested in the news that transport experts from around the United States of America are reporting an increase in a tool known as transloading on the West Coast, over directly shipping freight to the Midwest via intermodal rail. Sources indicate that shippers have been repacking inbound container shipments into larger domestic containers, which sources indicates reduces inland transportation costs and gives the firms in question more flexibility with their inventories. This allows for the combining of various goods that need to be shipped to one store and decisions on where the goods are needed in the supply chain can be left until later, according to transport professionals.

The professionals providing customers with a great freight quote note that this strategy isn’t all gold for shippers as reports are coming in of additional handling costs being involved and the process could be a little more complex on the front end of the deal, once the cargo arrives. Firms using this strategy indicate that in the end they ship fewer containers inland and the ability to postpone the destination of a shipment is turning out to be important in the current marketplace.

Professionals in the business of logistics will certainly find this news interesting and this shift in transport strategies could be something that will continue to be utilized in the months and years ahead in the century of the environment in the United States. There have been a few cries of problems from exporters in America concerned about the availability of containers and their use, and we’ll have to see where this news heads in the days ahead.

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Heavy Hauling Services in Demand

Monday, September 20th, 2010

The professionals in the freight office providing customers with a great freight quote will be happy to hear that TransCore’s latest North American Freight index was at its highest level in the past five years in August, 2010. This news was reported in Portland, Oregon recently and the professionals on hand to hear this announcement apparently applauded the news that the business of transporting cargo to destination in the United States of America and the world is picking up momentum. Hopefully, this continues to be the trend in the business, and customers begin shipping more cargo in the weeks and months ahead in the century of the environment.

What exactly does TransCore’s latest North American Freight Index indicate according to the professionals in the business of providing efficient, reliable and cost-effective shipping services? The index indicates that the volume of cargo requiring transport was up by about 75 percent in August, 2010, as compared to the same time period in 2009. At the same time, the volume of cargo transported in August was down by about 14 percent, over the volume of cargo transported during the month of July. This is all part of a seasonal pattern in the industry during the past five years, according to many, as the volume of cargo that needs to be transported declines at the end of the summer months. Hopefully, it means there will be a lot more freight forwarding going-on in the freight offices of the United States of America as we head further down the transport roads of North America in the months ahead.

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Freight Trucks Powered by Natural Gas?, Trucking freight the natural way

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Trucking freight using vehicles powered by natural gas is a viable solution for the freight trucking industry that makes some sense for a diesel powered industry that needs to find energy sources that are considered more environmentally-friendly. Could we be seeing fleets of trucking transports in the years to come powered by natural gas? The answer is one that many freight trucking industry experts have considered in the last few years, especially with proposed environmental changes still being decided on.

The sound of laughter might be heard in many freight trucking lunchrooms, when they read this, but the use of natural gas to power trucks is a feasible scenario that scientists are definitely looking at. While it’s true that the infrastructure to allow for the implementation of natural gas as a fuel source for every day cars isn’t feasible, it’s feasible to use natural gas for fleet operations because they don’t need as many stations and such operations use a large volume of fuel.

Electric powering a truck on the other hand would require the use of heavy batteries, which studies show can reduce the amount of freight a truck can carry by as much as twenty percent. The implementation of a hybrid electric-diesel system in a large truck has similar problems, so natural gas is one of the obvious energy sources we have available to do the job.

In America, incentives to help individuals or firms thinking about making a switch to natural gas already exist in the form of tax credits for those who purchase natural gas and vehicles powered by natural gas. The environment hasn’t been the focus of the administration, lately, but natural gas has been noticed by the administration and we might even see a few more incentives for those thinking about switching to natural gas usage.

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Should You Ship Freight By Rail or Roadway?, It depends…

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Whether you choose to ship freight by road or rail depends largely on the cargo being moved. Not only does the size of the cargo matter, but also its strength or fragility.

Some cargo is simply too large to ship via the roadway. There are often legal limits to the height and width of a load that can travel by road. These laws protect bridges from damage and prevent accidents. Special permits and procedures are also needed for over-sized loads.

Rail cars are much more flexible when it comes to large loads. They can be configured to ship freight of various types. Flat cars can run from 40′ to 89′ long, making them more suitable to exceptionally large loads. If you put 50 flat cars together, each having a capacity of 60 tons, you could carry 3,000 tons, much more than is possibly by truck.

Rail does not make sense to ship freight that is fragile. Ceramic tile is much too fragile to be shipped by train. In addition, some metals cannot be secured properly on a train because they are too heavy. Such items must be shipped by truck.

Trucking makes more sense when time is tight because rail freight often takes longer. Schedules are not ideally consistent and regular, so there are delays getting freight to its destination.

Security is also an issue when you ship freight. Trucks are generally more secure, being manned by a driver who has sight of the load for most of the trip. On long trains, it is easier for cargo to be stolen. It is harder to police a line of 50 cars than it is to check just one truckload.

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Container Scanning

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Container trucking and transport go through a series of checks from port to port. The most effective process is scanning what is inside the container to make sure that nothing illegal is being carried in inside a certain country. Different types of technology are used to scan containers. One of the active systems used nowadays are Acoustic –an ultrasonic device that uses acoustic sensors to detect the reflection of what is inside the container. Once that is done, an image is formed. It is able to identify presence of threat so long as it is in liquid form. It does not however provide material discrimination. It takes about 2-5 minutes for this system to determine what is inside of a certain object within a container.
Gamma Ray is also used in container scanning.

Gamma Rays interact with what is inside a container and these are displayed as images. This system is able to indicate the presence of threat of the “merchandise” inside a container but like the acoustic-based system, it does not provide material discrimination. TNA or Thermal Neutron Activation on the other hand can determine if there is potential threat inside a container and can also provide material discrimination. This sophisticated technology can be either fixed or mobile but it is rather expensive.

X-Ray is more efficient though but it is more expensive than TNA. However, if a container inspection is looking for nuclear weapons and other radioactive materials, the best combination for an inspection system would be neutron and gamma ray detection. It does not stop there though, because if the material is covered by something to hide it from the first inspection device, there would be a need to use x-ray. The ICIS also known as Integrated Container Inspection System has all the above mentioned capabilities –making scanning a breeze for everyone.

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