INDEX Advertisers appear in boldface

ABX Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Air Cargo Management Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Air Transport Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Air Transport Services Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Airborne Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Airbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 All Nippon Airways. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 AMB Property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 AMR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 American Association of

State Highway and Transportation Officials. . . . . . 14 American Gypsum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 American Society of Civil Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 American Trucking Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 23 Amtrak. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 APL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 AP Moller-Maersk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Arcapita Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Armstrong & Associates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Arpin International. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 BAX Global. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Burlington Junction Railway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Canadian National Railway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Cargojet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 CEPL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Chessie System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 CHI ...................................... 29 Commonwealth Business Media . . . . . 7, 22, 25, 28 Continental Airlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Contract Freighters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Con-way ............................... 5 Con-way ............................. 10-12, 23 Council of Supply Chain

Management Professionals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 34 Crowley Maritime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 CSX Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Delta Air Lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 DHL................................ 16, 29, 30 Duchossois Industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Eagle Global Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Estes Express Lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Evergreen ................................. 33 Faneuil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 FedEx ............................ 10-12, 16, 30 Foss Maritime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Freightliner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 General Maritime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Gerb Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Global Insight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 GT Nexus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Honda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 i2 Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 International Air Transport Association . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Iowa Interstate Railroad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Iowa Northern Railway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 J.B. Hunt Transport Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 JOCConferences..................... 13, 31 Keokuk Junction Railway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Kewill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Langham Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Lewis Trucking & Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Limited Brands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Mack Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 National Industrial Transportation League. . . . . . . . . . 12 Neptune Orient Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Norfolk Southern Railway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 27 Overnite Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Ozburn-Hessey Logistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Panalpina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Papa John’s Pizza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Port of Tacoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Porter Capital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Royal Dutch Shell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Ryder System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Schneider National. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 SMC3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Southern Star Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Stifel Nicolaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Swift Transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Tech Conveyor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Teradata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Thomas Transfer & Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Tompkins Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Toyota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Trans Global Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Transocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Transport Intelligence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Trucking Association Executive Council . . . . . . . . . . . 34 UAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Union Pacific. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 UPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12, 16, 23, 29, 30 US Xpress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Utility Trailer Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 VirginAtlantic .............................. 34 Volvo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Vontobel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Wal-Mart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Westfalia Technologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Wesupply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 YRC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

TESTED. The U.S. Department of Transportation is out with its “Specific Collection Guidelines” for drug testing and let’s just say we haven’t seen such, well, detailed descriptions of bathroom activities since we read the graffiti on the walls of elementary school restrooms a few decades ago. The guidelines are at the DOT site for anyone who wants the full version. It’s sad enough, of course, that the department has to get so explicit to prevent people from faking out the testing. Still, even with unemployment rising, its not really heartening that the field of drug test validation is growing.

 

GOLD STANDARD. We were as riveted as everyone to the TV coverage of the Beijing Olympics Games, and especially the commercials. Our favorite was the U.S. Postal Service commercial boasting that they still haul those packages without adding a fuel surcharge. One transport chief we know says it’s easy to do that if you don’t mind losing $1.1 billion, as the USPS recently did.

 

STEAMED. We know shippers and carriers are being hit hard by diesel fuel prices, but now the prices are really starting to hit home. The Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley Railroad is cutting off its scenic ride at the halfway point to Milford, N. Y., and heading back to the station. It may not be exactly an abandonment, but we’re having our attorney check with the Surface Transportation Board just the same.

 

LOADED. We’re not sure what to make of the assessment by Wyoming State Police of a tractor-trailer accident there. They said the truck’s load was not damaged but the fuel spilled out. Most truckers would argue for goodness sakes, let the load go but please save that precious, precious fuel.

 

SWEET. Speaking of spills, the summer’s best truck unloading may have been in Texas, where a rig lost its 5,000 gallons of molasses onto a state road. That could have been why several drivers from Galveston to Austin had a nagging urge last month for some pancakes.