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Maersk Line’s move to start charging truckers for use of its container chassis is being watched closely by the biggest ocean carrier’s competitors, although none of them have yet followed suit.

Will today’s slow-paying customer be tomorrow’s bankruptcy? To get a proper grip on this very real possibility, let’s look at some staggering statistics.

Consumer confidence increased in August, the New York-based Conference Board said.

Truckload fleet executives said not even the certainty of truck prices rising up to 10% next year will cause them to alter their current purchasing plans.

The Transportation Intermediaries Association has released its second-quarter 3PL Market Report, which showed that total dollars billed by all study participants for all activities increased about 7% from the first quarter.

Truckload carriers C.R. England and Knight Transportation each recently announced they were investing in new software aimed at making its routing and fuel purchasing more efficient.

This is in response to the letter in the July 27 issue with the headline “Brokers Revisited”: Your complaint is not justified with me.

All nine publicly traded less-than-truckload carriers reported classic signs of overcapacity — tonnage and pricing falling simultaneously — during the second quarter of this year, leaving the industry unable to capitalize on the 47% decline in diesel prices from the corresponding time in 2008.

The number of Class 8 vehicles operating in the United States totaled 3.641 million units in the second quarter, an increase of less than 1% over the same quarter in 2008, transportation research firm R.L. Polk & Co. said.