Back in the saddle

摘要

As our veteran trucking correspondent John Schulz has been reporting, the once beleaguered LTL market is enjoying a revival of sorts, thanks to its substantial investment in technology, the boom in e-commerce as well as increasing demand in non-traditional areas that the leading carriers are now servicing. "It's about market share and pricing power," says Schulz. "In fact, the top 25 LTL carriers account for nearly 90% of market share. "And with the biggest players upping the ante with multi-million dollar investments in technology and operations improvements, the LTL sector continues to enjoy pricing power that the highly fragment truckload (TL) sector simply can't realize.