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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.

Volumes Expected to Rise in 2010

Expediters Online reported their expectations for 2010 in “What Does 2010 Hold for Trucking,” and quoted Transport Capital Partners’ (TCP) managing partners’ about executives’ expectation for freight volume to improve in the next seven to 12 months. Read the full article here.

Positive Outlook for Rates and Volumes in 2010

Logistik News, a German online news publication for the transportation industry, posted the article, “Trucking news: Transport Capital Partners survey shows an optimistic outlook heading into 2010” from Logistic Management. The article reports on Transport Capital Partners’ (TCP) fourth quarter Business Expectations Survey and its hopeful look for the New Year to see increases in rates and volumes for carriers. See the posting here.

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.

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.

Fourth Quarter Shows Optimism Among Carriers

Motor Carriers of Montana, a trade association dedicated to the furtherance of the trucking industry’s goals and interests in Montana and the United States, included a full report on results from Transport Capital Partners’ (TCP) fourth-quarter Business Expectations Survey. The survey indicated that carriers’ optimism for better rates in 2010 has increased in comparison with expectations in the third quarter of this year. Read the full newsletter.

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.

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.

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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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.