All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Transportation

I APPLAUD TOYOTA ! Safe, electric cars is the answer to foreign fuel dependency. Toyota's petrol-electric car is the "bridge" and can be put into immediate circulation.

RELEVENT SUBJECT: ECONOMY Housing Market, weak dollar, outsourcing, NAFTA...WE NEED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION!

The damage is immense. The downstream impacts have not yet hit with full force. But a global tsunami has started.

The article says airlines are set to lose a lot of money this year and next.  The questioner asks how much of the damage is self inflicted? I'll interpret that to mean "Are there steps that can be taken to eliminate the loses? * Can one giant airline lose less money than 2 very large ones? * Do...

On September 10, an analyst at USB thought that the two major western railroads would do well in the second half of 2008, the day before CSX upgraded its earnings estimates for its third quarter from around $3.55 to $3.70.  USB had also upgraded Norfolk Southern to a BUY on September 10. Most analysts...

The race to the bottom of the heap is symptomatic of lack of leadership. The lack of leadership is not lost on the public or personnel who see morale and situational ownership as nonexistant. Shear numbers are seen by management as the excuse while loyalty programs are the only retention tool.

Most trucking/transportation companies fail to properly control their cost and motivate their employees both Union and Nonunion, because of poor upper management.  Most upper management want their Ass Kissed and forget about the people in the trenchs who actually do the work and don't kiss...

Trucking equipment financing is following that of auto-financiers - again. It has been disappearing! As predicted in the referenced article (and by this writer) from a year ago, it’s here! Without readily available financing for trucks and trailers, what does that mean for new sales for the next few...

By adopting a unified standard throughout the EU the next generation of a hydrogen based transportation system can be realized. In doing so and increased demand for hydrogen, the hydrogen distribution infrastructure, and hydrogen fueled vehicles may result.

  YRC Worldwide's plan to integrate most of the operations of its Yellow and Roadway long-haul LTL units is mostly a positive. But it likely will result in a smaller overall company than the two operating companies currently are, but that's mostly because demand for long-haul LTL services is flat...