By Winston G. Chandler America is riding the crest of an eight-year economic boom.
Trucking companies are busy delivering more freight than ever.
Don t kid yourself. We are weaker and more fragmented today than ever. When everybody is putting his company up for sale amid a flurry of acquisitions, there isn t much long-term optimism for survival. And when an industry believes its answer to increased profits is to haul more volume at the same price, we have become delusional. There was a time when the nation s trucking companies delivered the freight on time and made money doing it.