This week, Logistics Plus employees at multiple offices competed in two holiday-themed contests. The first contest was to determine the best holiday sweater; and the winner was Angela Garcia from the Logistics Plus Ontario, CA office. The second contest was for the best holiday-decorated door; and the winner was the NTL team located at the Logistics Plus global headquarters in Erie, PA.
A total of five (5) categories were judged including: Best Holiday Spirit, Originality, Visual Impact, Completeness, and Best Use of a Door.
A special thank you to everyone at our Erie, Dallas, Ontario, Charleston, and Mexico offices who participated and made this such a fun and special event. All the pictures from the contests can be seen below or on the Logistics Plus Flickr page.
Recently, 15 Logistics Plus employees competed in the 1st Annual LP Charity Ping Pong Tournament. Alfredo Ayala emerged as the Logistics Plus champion and got the chance to play against professional ping pong player, Jasmine Guan, in the overall championship match. Jasmine has won several province championships in Liao Ning, China and is the mother of LP employee Peter Yu. Jasmine went on to defeat Alfredo 21-5 in the championship match. ?
Thanks to everyone who participated and helped us raise $440 to buy winter coats for underprivileged Erie School District children. The video below features the championship match between Alfredo and Jasmine:
The 2018 Breakbulk Americas event is now over, and we’d like to thank our customers and partners that joined our Logistics Plus team for a wonderful evening at the Karbach Brewery on Tuesday, October 2nd. We hope you enjoyed the brewerie tour, refreshments and networking (here’s a short slide show of some photographs taken at the event from the Logistics Plus Flickr Page).
Breakbulk Americas brings together shippers and suppliers in Houston, the oil & gas capital of the world. It’s all about new project opportunities from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, down to the tip of Argentina and throughout the Caribbean. As a leading freight forwarder and manager of project cargo and break bulk, Logistics Plus is a regular attendee and participant at Breakbulk events around the world.
On September 8th, several Logistics Plus employees conquered the 2018 Barber Beast on the Bay. Congratulations to everyone who participated and completed the challenging 10-mile obstacle course. Barber Beast on the Bay is a fundraising event to help support the Barber National Institute and its work with children and adults with disabilities.
September 9-15, 2018 is National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (NTDAW). Please join NTL and Logistics Plus in honoring all professional truck drivers for their hard work and commitment in tackling one of our economy’s most demanding and important jobs. These 3.5 million professional men and women not only deliver our goods safely, securely and on time, they also keep our highways safe.
PROFESSIONAL TRUCK DRIVERS AND THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY:
Professional truck drivers drove over 273.9 billion miles in 2015, more than double 25 years ago. Those miles accounted for 14.2% of all motor vehicle miles and 29.8% of all truck miles.
The trucking industry paid $41.3 billion in federal and state highway taxes in 2014, and represented 12.1 percent of vehicles on the road. The trucking industry paid $18.7 billion in federal highway-user taxes and $22.6 billion in state highway-user taxes in 2015.
The trucking industry consumed 54.3 billion gallons of diesel fuel and gasoline in 2016. Based on consumption and price, ATA reported that motor carriers spent $142.9 billion in 2015.
The federal fuel tax for diesel in 2015 is 24.4 cents per gallon; the average state tax for diesel fuel was 27.4 cents per gallon.
There are 3.63 million class 8 trucks on the road in the United States and 11.7 million commercial trailers were registered in 2015.
There are 3.5 million truck drivers in the United States. Total industry employment is 7.4 million or one out of every 16 people working in the United States.
There are 586,014 for-hire carriers and 747,781 private carriers in the United States; 97.3 percent of them have fewer than 20 trucks and 90.8 are operating six trucks or less.
In 2016, the trucking industry hauled 10.55 billion tons of freight, or 70.9 percent of total U.S. freight tonnage. Rail was the next busiest mode, moving 13.8 percent of the nation’s freight tonnage.
In 2016, the trucking industry was an astounding $738.9 billion industry, representing 81.5 percent of the nation’s freight bill.
More than 80 percent of U.S. communities depend solely on trucking for delivery of their goods and commodities.
A new truck produces one-tenth the fine particulate emissions and smog-forming NOx emissions as a similar truck manufactured just seven years ago.
Fine particulate emissions from on-road diesel trucks have been cut by more than half over the past decade.
On September 8th, several Logistics Plus employees conquered the 2018 
The federal fuel tax for diesel in 2015 is 24.4 cents per gallon; the average state tax for diesel fuel was 27.4 cents per gallon.