Truckininfo.com cites Transport Capital Partner’s Business Expectations Quarterly Survey in “Half of Truckload Carriers Unprepared for CSA 2010.” Managing partners Richard Mikes and Lana Batts comment on the carrier unpreparedness. Read the full article here.
April 9, 2010 -
Carriers Unprepared for CSA 2010
April 1, 2010 -
Carriers Hesitate to Purchase New Equipment
In “Carriers Still Slow to Buy New Equipment: TCP Survey,” Bulk Transporter highlights TCP’s Business Expectations Survey’s finding that about half of carriers do not plan to buy new trucks very soon and discusses related findings. Read the full article here.
March 26, 2010 -
Half of Carriers Plan to Add Capacity
In “Carriers Hesitant to Add New Equipment,” Truckinginfo.com uses information from the Business Expectations Quarterly survey to assert that 56% of carriers expect to grow by adding new capacity from company-owned equipment rather than independent carriers. The article quotes managing TCP partners Richard Mikes and Lana Batts. Read the full article here.
March 22, 2010 -
C. Bean Transport Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
In an article about the recent bankruptcy of a trucking company in Arkansas, The Journal of Commerce quotes TCP’s Lana Batts about the future of financing trucks. Read the full article here.
March 17, 2010 -
Carriers Consider Leaving the Business
In “One Fourth of Carriers Looking at Leaving the Industry,” TruckingInfo.com reports results from Transport Capital Partners’ (TCP) Business Expectations Survey. The survey, conducted quarterly, indicated that carriers have become more confident in rates and volumes, but their hopes for long term survival are not so optimistic, with one in four considering selling if conditions don’t improve in the next six months.
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March 17, 2010 -
One in Four Carriers Consider Selling
In the article “TCP Survey Shows One in Four Carriers Consider Selling,” TodaysTrucking.com summarizes TCP’s Business Expectations Survey results, focusing on the findings that many surveyed carriers have confidence in the coming year while about 25% of carriers are thinking about leaving the industry over the next year and a half. Read the full article here.
March 11, 2010 -
Capacity Likely to Improve in Long Term
Today’s Trucking quoted Transport Capital Partners (TCP) in the Featured News article “‘Inverse Perfect Storm’ Brewing in Trucking: Analysts” about results from the most recent Business Expectations Survey, conducted quarterly by TCP. John Burton with ACT Research Co. (ACT) reports similar results from his company’s surveys: carriers and industry vendors think capacity is tightening in February but should improve in the second half of 2010 and in 2011. Read the full article here.
March 9, 2010 -
TCP Assists in Acquisition of McGriff Transportation
TruckingInfo.com’s article, “TCP Assists in HB Holdings’ Acquisition of McGriff Transportation” features TCP’s acquisition services. Managing Partner Miller Welborn was quoted. Read the full article here.
March 8, 2010 -
Rates Set to Improve in Year Ahead
TruckingInfo.com’s “TCP: Capacity Crunch, Improved rates Are in the Cards” quotes Lana Batts, managing partner for Transport Capital Partners (TCP) on projections for the industry in the next year. The article quotes Batts during a conference call hosted by Stifel Nicolaus March 5th. Her responses were based on results from the most recent Business Expectations Survey, conducted by TCP each quarter. Read the full article here.
January 11, 2010 -
Tech Acquisitions Up, Carriers Optimistic for 2010
Heavy Duty Trucking quoted Lana Batts and Richard Mikes, managing partners for Transport Capital Partners (TCP), in two articles in its January 2010 print publication. “Trucking technology company consolidation is a trend” quotes Batts as saying more “wallet share acquisitions” are likely to increase in the transportation industry during the next few years. “Survey: Carriers optimistic, but still feel cash pinch” reports the findings of TCP’s fourth quarter Business Expectations Survey, quoting both Mikes and Batts about the outlook trucking companies reported in the past three months. Read the full article here.
