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FedEx Express enhances same day services for urgent shipments

Posted by | Sep 10, 2007 | |

FedEx Corp. has significantly enhanced FedEx Express same-day service offerings with the addition of same-day services for freight shipments and a new intra-city service in select markets.

FedEx customers can now have many of their most urgent freight shipments weighing more than 150 lbs. delivered on the same calendar day, backed by a money-back guarantee. FedEx SameDay services will offer simple, published, distance-based pricing.

FedEx also will now offer FedEx SameDay City for parcel or palletized freight. This service will offer standardized pricing and an industry leading same calendar day delivery commitment, backed by a money-back guarantee. This new service is for domestic shipments moving same-day within a 25-mile radius of ten metropolitan markets including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Memphis, Boston, New York, Washington D.C. and Atlanta. Lower intra-city rates also will be offered for customers.
FedEx SameDay services allow U.S.-based customers to send their most urgent shipments door-to-door throughout the 50 states within hours depending on flight availability. FedEx SameDay services include FedEx SameDay for shipments under 150 lbs., FedEx SameDay Freight for shipments weighing more then 150 lbs., loose or palletized and FedEx SameDay City for both freight and shipments weighing less than 150 lbs. These services are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and average pickup times less than 60 minutes after a request is placed. Finally, for international shipments, FedEx International Next Flight® offers customers fastest delivery of shipments to more than 220 countries and territories worldwide.

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Parcels Losing Weight

Posted by | Sep 10, 2007 | |

It’s nearly two-thirds into 2007 and shippers are still trying to get a handle on how to handle dimensional rate pricing for parcel shipments.

UPS announced the plan late last year and rolled it out in January, granting some shippers waivers that have just ended. FedEx, DHL and even the U.S. Postal Service soon followed suit.

Dimensional pricing is likely to further fade the line between air express and ground parcel service. The new metric also could affect trucking operations and alter freight classification standards as the express and parcel carriers look to bring the disciplines of that side of the business into their growing less-than-truckload subsidiaries.

Whether they take a dim view of the changes or not, shippers are already adjusting their shipping patterns to pare down what could be large cost increases under older standards.

UPS contends dimensional costing offers shippers something they’ve clamored for – a simpler pricing method. Dim-weight pricing, the company says, more accurately reflects the true costs for handling and delivery.

Some industry analysts say the impact of the new pricing standard has yet to be fully felt.

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Truckers ask court to delay hours ruling

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

U.S. trucking companies have asked a federal court to delay a requirement that would reduce by one hour the time truckers can drive continuously.

The American Trucking Association Thursday requested an 8-month stay from a mandate of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court had ordered the daily driving limit be cut to 10 hours for long-haul truckers.

The trade group says eliminating the rule effective Sept. 14 would be expensive and require the industry to retrain drivers and operating personnel, reprint logs, reengineer routes and make other changes.

Safety advocates, who applauded the court’s ruling, say the industry is putting the public at risk by allowing truckers to drive too many hours.

The court action’s had followed by a week an ATA petition with the federal government, asking for revisions to 2-year-old regulations on truckers’ hours, which the court had rejected in late July.

The ATA argued for the 8-month stay to give the Transportation Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration time to review the court’s ruling and the new rules.

A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration spokeswoman did not return a call for comment Friday. After the ATA’s appeal last week, the agency said it was still developing a response to the court ruling but would do so in time for the industry to adapt.
The trade group’s members include United Parcel Service Inc., FedEx Corp., JB Hunt Transport Services Inc. and YRC Worldwide.

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Troutdale gives FedEx USA approval to build distribution center at former Alcoa site

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

The city of Troutdale gave final approval Thursday to FedEx Ground to build its Northwest distribution hub on 77 acres of the former Alcoa-Reynolds Metals site, north of the Troutdale airport.
The new facility is part of FedEx’s USD 1.8 billion national expansion plan. The company plans to relocate its current Swan Island facility to the new hub, which will be about seven times larger. It will feature a fuel island, trailer garage and other structures totaling about 570,800 square feet in the initial phase.
FedEx will buy the Troutdale site from the Port of Portland, which is finalizing its purchase of the property from Alcoa Inc.
While city officials tout high-wage jobs, future tax revenue and the positive economic impact the company will bring to east Multnomah county, the hub will also increase traffic and air pollution, provide mostly part-time and contractor jobs, and could cost the city up to USD 6 million in lost income, due to tax breaks under a recently approved enterprise zone at the site.
The biggest challenge will be traffic. About 200 semitrailer and pickup and delivery van drivers will work at the new facility in the first phase of development, according to documents filed with the city. A transportation impact analysis prepared for the Port of Portland indicates that, at its peak hour, the facility will generate 423 arrivals and departures.
As a condition of approval, Troutdale asked FedEx to make several road improvements in the area, including construction of a traffic signal at the intersection of Marine Drive and Sundial Road. But the city did not impose conditions that would apply to the already clogged Interstate 84 Exit 17.

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Slower U.S. economy may affect DHL targets-exec

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

DHL’s operations in the United States are dwarfed by those of rivals Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc. and Memphis-based FedEx Corp. Hans Hickler, CEO of DHL USA, said DHL aims to compete with these companies using improved technology and customer service.

While DHL has some room to maneuver on price with its air package delivery service, which is linked to its international network, the company’s smaller ground delivery network has little leverage against FedEx and UPS, he said.

But he added that DHL does “not want to destabilize the market” with dramatic price reductions.

Hickler also said DHL is not interested in following UPS and FedEx in acquiring companies in the less-than-truckload market. Less-than-truckload operators consolidate small loads into a single truck.

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