Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa announced today that the union has won a card-check agreement at UPS Freight, providing a major boost to the Teamsters’ organizing efforts at the former Overnite Transportation. Union leaders have been pursuing with UPS the negotiation of an organizing agreement since UPS bought Overnite last year.
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Pallet traffic has picked up again of late. In the past three months, for example, Palletline has seen around a 20% year-on-year increase in volume. But I find it hard to conceive of this level of growth continuing in the long term. We are planning for a much lower level of growth for the remainder of this year and ever tougher commercial competition.
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Palletways now has 27 members a week feeding freight into the international service that it launched in January
European development manager John McCormick says the number is growing all the time. The present single-deck trunk to Nijmegn is running at capacity and he predicted that not only a second also a third trunk will be introduced by Easter.
Palletways is considering adding a double-decker, although it will have to meet Dutch height limits.
TOOLES Transport, based in Droitwich, has launched a new express delivery service for small consignments of goods to mainland Europe.
As a member of the Palletways distribution network, which has more than 100 depots in the UK, the company will now be able to distribute small consignments more cost effectively and faster than before to a vast European marketplace, inclu-ding Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemborg, Denmark, France and Germany.
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