Transport Capital Partners’ (TCP) Managing Partners Lana Batts and Richard Mikes are quoted in TruckingInfo’s “Fleet Equipment Purchase Plans Stabilize” about results from the firm’s fourth-quarter Business Expectations Survey. Results show that carriers are stabilizing on fleet replacement, with a pre-buy unlikely and more interest in buying and selling shown this quarter than previous months. Read the full article.
December 29, 2009 -
One-Fifth of Carriers Contemplate Selling in Near Future
December 29, 2009 -
Carriers Anticipate a Long Recovery
SupplyChainBrain posted a summary of an article on TodaysTrucking that quotes Richard Mikes and Lana Batts, managing partners for Transport Capital Partners (TCP), about the results of the fourth quarter Business Expectations Survey. “40 Percent of Truckers Don’t See Upturn Until 2011” reports that the outlook for volumes and rates has increased, but carriers still hesitate to say conditions will return to “normal” in 2010. Read the full article.
December 22, 2009 -
One in Eight Carriers Consider Calling It Quits
Today’s Trucking’s “Cash Shortage Still Squeezing Trucking” reports on results from Transport Capital Partners’ fourth quarter Business Expectations Survey. Among other statistics, the survey showed that due to cash shortages, one in eight carriers have given serious consideration to leaving the industry if rates do not improve soon. Read the full article.
December 16, 2009 -
Fourth Quarter Reflects Troubled Economy
Transport Capital Partners’ Managing Partners Lana Batts and Richard Mikes were quoted inBulk Transporter’s “Carriers facing cash squeeze as receivables drag: survey.” The article reports the findings of TCP’s fourth quarter Business Expectations Survey, which collects the insights and opinions of carriers nationwide in order to report on the state of the industry. Read the full article.
December 11, 2009 -
Volumes and Rates Expected to Increase in 2010
Transport Capital Partners (TCP) Managing Partners Richard Mikes and Lana Batts were quoted extensively in Today’s Trucking article titled “U.S. trucking upturn won’t happen until ’11.” Mikes and Batts discuss the results of TCP’s quarterly Business Expectations Survey and their expectations for the trucking industry in 2010 and 2011. Read the full article.
September 11, 2009 -
Recovery Among Freight Carriers Likely to Be Sluggish
Today’s Trucking quoted Richard Mikes, managing partner for Transport Capital Partners, in “Truck analysts say climb back from recession will be slow.” The article included results from TCP’s Business Expectations Survey, conducted quarterly, about equipment purchasing and fleet acquisitions in the current economy and other state-of-the-industry topics. Read the full article.
August 18, 2009 -
Rates Drop to the Benefit of Brokers
The SupplyChain Digest article “As Truckload Rates Continue Freefall, Middlemen Actually See Margins Grow” quoted Lana Batts, a managing partner at Transport Capital Partner (TCP), about the economic outlook of the transportation industry this year. Many of Batts’ data has been collected via TCP’s quarterly Business Expectations Surveys. Read the full article.
July 27, 2009 -
TCP Survey Notes Significant Decrease in Volumes
Lana Batts, managing partner for Transport Capital Partners (TCP), was quoted in SupplyChainDigest’s article “Truckload Market Sees Bottom Having Arrived, but Fundamentals are Still Rotten.” Batts’ quotes for the article were taken from a recent phone interview conducted by John Larkin with Stifel Nicholas.
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June 15, 2009 -
Fleet Owners Optimistic, But Wary of Low Rates
Transport Capital Partners (TCP) was featured in Transport Topics in the article “Optimism Grows Among Fleet Owners about Economic Recovery, Survey Finds.” The article gave full coverage to TCP’s second quarter Business Expectations Survey findings, released in early June. Read the full article.
June 11, 2009 -
Truckers Forecast Improvements in Coming Year
Truckinginfo.com and ExpeditersOnline.com featured results from Transport Capital Partners’ (TCP) second quarter Business Expectations Survey in the article “Truckers have rosy economic outlook.” According to the survey, the industry expects conditions such as freight volumes, rate stability, insurance renewals, credit and mergers and acquisitions to improve in the next 12 months. Read the full article. The article was also posted here.
