Transloaders Expand Services

(Continued from page I 3 ) intramodal service(s) they perform. Transloaders are not beneficial owners of goods they handle nor do they profit from delaying transportation equipment. The more cars or trucks they efficiently unload, reload or store in their facility, the more profit they generate. They are rewarded for turning cars or trucks quickly rather than delaying or using them for storage for which demurrage might be assessed. Transloading success is a matter of managing an infinite number of details very well, any one of which can upset your organization.

"It just makes sense that most smaller and medium-sized lumber producers and buyers want to focus on what they do best: manufacturing, selling and/or buying, leaving the transportation details up to us," says Jade Stevenson, president of Desticon Transportation Services Inc.

As proof of the continued growth of transloading, the phenomenon has spawned the fastest growing trade association in the transportation and distribution industry, the Transload Distribution Association.

The group began with a nucleus of 13 directors who met in Chicago to officially organize and then invited transload operators, shippers and carriers to an annual meeting in Las Vegas in 1994. TDA recently held its 8th annual session and has grown into an internationally recognized trade association representing more than 600 facilities in North America and Europe.

TDA is comprised of transload operators members and associate members who are manufacturers, wholesalers, vendors, ports and Class I, Regional and Shortline carriers. TDA is a non-lobbying, self-improvement, networking organization successfully promoting an agenda of interaction between transloaders, carriers and shippers to improve commercial relationships and professionalism resulting in mutual opportunities. TDA actively provides a Fax Connector referral program for shippers seeking reloads from their data base of regional facilities. The association established a Best Business Practices Program that espouses a

Code of Ethics and requires more detailed, accepted business practices and services of a transload facility. The organization conducts special tours and regional workshops. This fall TDA will provide a rail tour of Northeast transloads, shippers and rail facilities from Boston to Montreal. Last year TDA toured transloads along the Rocky Mountain region of Idaho, Montana, Washington and B.C. and held a special workshop on demurrage and use of downsized military installations for transloading. Programs for 2002 include a workshop in Panama City, Fl., in January and the annual conference in Las Vegas in April.

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LAMINATORS, suppliers, architects and engineers from around the nation met in Tucson, Az.. recentlv for the 49th annual meetino of the American Institute of Timber Constructi6n. The group-the only national trade association for the promotion of glued laminated timbers-celebrated a record production year for glulam beams. (1) New AITC treasurer Tommy Hewitt, John Jayne. (2) Don Mone, Gunnar Brinck. (3) Monie Rhude, Craig VanCott, incoming AITC president Ed Jones, Bill Vickry, Bob Powell. (4) Joe Hucke, Bud Filler, (5) David Strauss, oast AITC oresident Dick & Barbara Cormier, Norm Strauss. (6) Amy Seech, Mike Giles, Mark Seech, Pat Leslie.

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