Hanson Logistics Enewsletter

Contents

• Freight Consolidation
• Highway Bottlenecks
• Reliance of 3PLs
• Lafayette, Indiana
• The Ice King
• Letter from the President
• What Our Customers Say

Freight Consolidation & Distribution
We reach Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Knoxville and St. Louis. We deliver LTL to Cleveland, Memphis, Des Moines and Milwaukee; truckload to Phoenix, Atlanta, Denver; carload to the eastern seaboard. We have our hands on your key markets

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			Letter from the President Let’s talk “balance”. Teammates, Facilities, Transportation. A few years ago, Hanson was the nation’s 13th largest PRW, an asset-based provider of temperature-controlled warehousing services. Today, we are quickly becoming a leader in temperature-controlled transportation services. Read complete letter. What Our Customers Say — "We have a great partnership with Hanson, one that goes back many years,” says Mike Sutton, Michigan Freeze Pack. Read more.
	Highway Bottlenecks Cost Truckers Millions Of Lost Hours Bottlenecks on highways throughout the nation idled trucks for more than 243 million hours in 2004, costing U.S. trucking companies $7.8 billion, according to a study prepared for the Federal Highway Administration. Read more. Reliance on 3PLs On the Rise A recent survey conducted by Capgemini and the Georgia Institute of Technology shows a notable increase in the number of companies relying on third party logistics. Read more here. Lafayette, Indiana — Savvy Spot For Distribution “It takes more than one hand to count all the reasons why Lafayette, Indiana, makes the perfect choice for warehousing, distribution and logistics facilities,” says Cindy Kelly, acting Executive Director of the Lafayette-West Lafayette Economic Development Corporation. Learn more about Lafayette, Indiana. Frederic Tudor: The Ice King Like many technologies, the process of bringing you the ice in your iced tea has changed dramatically in the past 200 years. From the book, The Ice King: Frederic Tudor and His Circle, by Carl Seaburg and Stanley Paterson, we learn that the ice cutting industry was one of the major business enterprises in 18th and 19th century Boston. Read about the history of ice harvesting.