Six regional carriers form alliance

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The Reliance Network will provide LTL, TL and supply chain freight services to their customers.

Effective March 1st six regional carriers will form an alliance called The Reliance Network.  The carriers include: Averitt Express, Canadian Freightways/Epic Express, DATS Trucking, Lakeville Motor Express, Land Air Express of New England, and Pitt Ohio Express.  The Reliance Network will provide Less-Than-Truckload (LTL), Truckload (TL), and supply chain freight services.  Benefits include:<ul style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">Complete coverage of the <country-region w:st="on" />US</country-region />, <country-region w:st="on" />Canada</country-region /> and <country-region w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Mexico</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">Improved transit times</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">Working with local transportation specialist for all shipments</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">Over 25,000 tractors and trailers</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">Shipment visibility throughout the network</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">Secure data management</li></ul>Analyst Chris Brady, president of Commercial Motor Vehicle Consulting (CMVC), stated “with the alliance, a carrier can offer their customers service beyond their operational regions.  They couldn’t do that before. Maybe, if it was a good customer, they may have made a deal with an outside owner-operator. But now they have a service they can go to.”  He also stated that an alliance of 6 companies will be difficult.  Brady added: “The more partners, the more likely there will be problems.  Success will come down to how easily they can work together.” 9 application/xml false Alliance LTL Supply Chain TL Transportation Six regional carriers form alliance Fleet Owner http://fleetowner.com/management/regional_carriers_form_alliance_0305/ Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 Establish 208.105.4.154 false true false false true 187565 false false true false false false true 165493 blog blogsite/ChinaSupplyChain/web