Technology, Cost-Cutting Efforts Drive Yellow Freight
With customer satisfaction at an all-time high following an internal reorganization of Yellow Freight System, the less-than-truckload carrier’s parent corporation plans to continue improving its operations and use of technology while examining cost-cutting measures at its other trucking affiliates.
William D. Zollars, the new head of Yellow Corp., made that announcement during in an interview with Transport Topics, when he said Yellow, the nation’s second-largest LTL carrier, will maintain its relationship with American Trucking Associations amid changes in trucking that include a new safety administration and proposed modifications to key regulations.
Zollars joined the LTL carrier in 1996 soon after Myers came to the company, based in Overland Park, Kan.
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The interview came a week after Zollars was promoted in November from his job as president of Yellow Freight, the parent company’s national, unionized trucking subsidiary. He replaced A. Maurice Myers, who became chairman and chief executive officer of Waste Management Inc. in Houston ("Myers Moves to Waste Firm; Zollars to Head Yellow Corp.," 11-15, p. 1).
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