Transportation Update

July 2011

Editorial Features/Special Sections American Trucker August issue features Plain or Fancy and distributed at the Great American Trucking Show Commercial Carrier Journal August issue features Trailer Tracking and Driver Training Driver Health August issue features Prevention FoodBusinessNews August 2 issue features Sustainability and Bone Health Food Logistics July/August issue features Managing Relationships with 3PL and Cold Chain Providers Land Line Aug/Sept issue features Idle Reduction Logistics Management August issue features 28th Annual Quest for Quality Awards and Improving Labor Management Modern Materials Handling August issue features Top 20 Lift Truck Suppliers and Alternative Power Motor Magazine August issue features Cooling System Diagnosis and Small Block Ford Engine Build Overdrive August issue features Truck Stop Electrification and Holding Down Insurance Costs Transport Topics July 18 issue features Top 100 For-Hire List and Top 100 For-Hire Carriers Truckers Connection August issue features Partnering Up: Team Driving Truckers News September issue features 10th Anniversary of 9/11 and Healthy Truckers

Layoffs Chicago's transit agency has cut 54 jobs as part of an effort to save $15 million a year. The Chicago Transit Authority said that it has cut 26 managers and 28 other non-unions jobs. The move was made after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ordered cost-cutting. The CTA says the cuts amount to a 10% reduction in senior management. Chicago New Times First Student Inc., a bus provider located in Glen Ellyn, IL will lay off 80 employees starting at the end of June. The company attributes the layoffs to the loss of a recent contract, according to Crain's. Crains Business Chicago

July 2011

Ford Motor Co. says that it will lay off 150 workers at its Buffalo Stamping Plant in Woodlawn, NY this September because one of the two assembly plants that it serves in Canada is closing that month. Ford is shutting down its assembly plant in St. Thomas, Ont., about 160 miles from Buffalo. That plant, which makes the Ford Crown Victoria, is primarily served by the Woodlawn facility for automotive sheet metal stampings. Buffalo News Qantas Airways Ltd., facing rising fuel costs and increasing competition, expects to cut about 5% of cabin crew in its first buyout program in three years after scaling back expansion plans. About 350 of the carrier's 7,000 flight attendants will likely accept a package. Qantas said in March that it will boost domestic capacity by just 8% in the six months ending June, rather than an earlier plan for a 14% increase. International growth was cut to 7% from 10%. San Francisco Chronicle The United Airlines and Continental Airlines merger will mean 1,500 fewer jobs in the carrier's downtown Houston corporate offices, an airline spokeswoman said. At the time of the merger's announcement in May of last year, Continental employed about 3,000 workers at its Houston corporate offices. "To date, we've identified 1,500 corporate positions that will remain downtown. The process is still ongoing," United spokeswoman Mary Clark said. Positions in the combined airline's technology, revenue accounting, human resources and other departments will remain in Houston. Some workers are expected to retire, relocate to Chicago, quit or their positions will be eliminated by the time the merger integration is complete in the next 18 months. Houston Chronicle Conferences & Seminars Great American Trucking Show August 25-27 Dallas, TX