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I am writing in response to the letter with the opinion about telemarketers, which was published in the March 8 edition. As national sales manager for a third-party logistics provider, I would like the opportunity to counter some of the points the letter writer made and give a sales perspective to this issue.

Electronic onboard recorders should be mandatory for all truckers operating in North America, the president of the said.

Logistics firm US 1 Industries said it had a fourth quarter net loss of $2.1 million, or 15 cents a share, compared with a profit of $582,000, or 4 cents a share, a year earlier.

Swift Transportation Co. has ordered 3,100 dry van trailers from Wabash National Corp., with deliveries scheduled to be spread over 12 months, the companies said.

Schneider National said it has fitted about one-quarter of its 12,000 tractors with new onboard computers in a fleetwide rip-and-replace that, for the first time, will bring graphical navigation and electronic driver logs to every truck.

Third-party logistics firm Ozburn-Hessey Logistics said that it has hired Greg Sanders as president of transportation services within its North American unit.

Union Pacific’s chief executive officer, Jim Young, said shipments carried by the nation’s biggest freight railroad are stronger than expected this year but still a long way from full recovery, the Associated Press reported.

The Canadian Trucking Alliance has reiterated its support for an electronic on-board recorder mandate in response to a discussion paper prepared by the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators.