Six Carriers Try to Boost Logistics With a Dot.com
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — An official at Werner Enterprises shed some light on what prompted his company to link up with five other large truckload carriers to form one the industry’s newest dot.com operations, Transplace.com, to serve logistics customers.
“We did this because all of the carriers were working on dot.coms on their own. We felt if we put our resources together, we’d do much better,” he said at a March 18 meeting of the Commercial Vehicle Training Association.
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The plan to merge the logistics operations of six of the nation’s largest truckload carriers was hatched in February in an attempt to increase the volume of freight and value-added logistics services handled by the companies, said Bob Synowicki Jr., executive vice president of Werner in Omaha, Neb.
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“The whole thing started about a month ago. I didn’t think we could get six carriers to agree to anything,” Synowicki said.
