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• An Expanding Business

  BNET - 2009-01-01

  UPS Freight helps Firefly Balloons rise above the competition. The small North Carolina town of Statesville is home to FireFly Balloons, Inc., the world's largest - and the nation's oldest - hot-air balloon maker. Finished balloons are trucked via UPS Freight to customers across the country. FireFly has also started...

  Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., UPS Freight, FireFly Balloons Inc., Business Structures, Finance

• Tulsa UPS freight workers to join Teamsters union

  - 2008-05-30

  Seventy UPS Freight, formerly Overnite Transportation, terminals in Oklahoma, California, Texas and Virginia have signed authorization cards to become Teamsters. The Tulsa workers will be part of Local 523. "Tulsa is a small city and most of the freight drivers know each other and see each...

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• UPS workers to join union

  - 2008-04-25

  About 200 workers at UPS Freight terminals in Utah have signed authorization cards to unionize, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said Thursday. The workers would join the Teamsters' Local 222 in Salt Lake City, said Tom Monthey, secretary-treasurer of Local 222. Since January, about 10,400 UPS...

  Tags: United Parcel Service of America Inc., UPS Freight

• STERIS Corporation And UPS Freight Go The Extra Mile To Deliver Customer Satisfaction

  BNET - 2008-03-07

  Prompted by continuous growth and increased domestic freight shipments in 2006 - up to 2,000 a week - STERIS decided to consolidate its LTL less than truckload regional and longhaul operations and award one enterprise-wide contract for domestic freight. The customer service aspect was critical. UPS Freight was awarded the...

  Tags: UPS Freight, Customer Service, STERIS Corp., Customer Satisfaction, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

• Hoffa: 'We're on a Roll Right Now'

  - 2008-02-08

  To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Leslie Miller of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, +1-202-624-8734, lmiller@teamster.org Teamsters President Predicts Continued Growth for 1.4 Million- Member Labor Union WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Teamsters Union added 23,000 members last year and is on pace to add even more this year, General...

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• Teamsters UPS Freight Campaign Reaches 4,000-Worker Milestone

  - 2008-02-06

  To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORS Contact: Galen Munroe of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, +1-202-624-6904 In Latest Victories, Workers Seekto Join Locals 107, 676 And 326 WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An overwhelming majority of about 175 workers at the UPS Freight formerly Overnite Transportation terminals in Bensalem, Pennsylvania; Pennsauken, New...

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• Three Carriers Outline Expansion Plans For Shippers at Intermodal Conference

  - 2007-11-19

  ATLANTA - Three large North American trucking firms oudined their current and future expansion plans to the thousands of shippers in attendance at TransComp and the Intermodal Expo here Nov. 9-14.While UPS Inc. spoke about the growing revenue of its Freight unit, Purolator Courier said it was expanding into the...

  Tags: United Parcel Service of America Inc., UPS Freight

• Teamsters Leading The Way For Working People

  - 2007-10-01

  To: LABOR EDITORSContact: Noreen Nielsen or Greg Denier of Change to Win, +1-202- 721-0660, chris.ortman@changetowin.org WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is a statement from Anna Burger, Chair of Change to Win, on the Teamsters Agreement with United Parcel Service. "On behalf of the Change to Win unions, I...

  Tags: United Parcel Service of America Inc., UPS Freight

• Shipper Sues 11 Large LTLs Over Fuel Surcharge Practice

  - 2007-08-13

  A distributor of irrigation equipment and other agricultural supplies has sued 11 of the largest less-than-truckload carriers in federal court, alleging thev have been violating antitrust laws in how they bill shippers for fuel surcharges.The suit filed by Farm Water Technological Services of Brawlev, Calif., which does business as "Water...

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• Buyers Seek Looks, Durability To Go With Pricing, Quality

  - 2007-06-11

  TRAILERSDespite the wide gap in price and technology between tractors and trailers, trucking firms are often just as exacting in what they demand in the trailers they buy as they are for the trucks."Buying a trailer is like buying a house, because you don't live with it for a week...

  Tags: Con-Way Inc., General Electric Co., UPS Freight