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Greatwide Logistics Services said Oct. 7 it has substantially increased the operations capacity and capabilities of its transportation operations center by implementing new software programs.

These Letters to the Editor appear in the Oct. 18 print edition of Transport Topics.

As the trucking industry gathers in Phoenix for American Trucking Associations’ annual meeting, the national economic climate is much improved from the gloom that surrounded last October’s meeting in Las Vegas.

Drayage carriers said they are pressing ocean cargo lines for more details about plans to make truckers responsible for supplying intermodal chassis.

McLeod Software’s purchase of Enterprise Information Solutions positions the No. 2 provider of enterprise software for motor carriers to compete for the first time for business from less-than-truckload companies — a trucking niche that appears hungry for new technology, vendors said.

President Obama last week pushed Congress to move forward with a $50 billion spending package for transportation infrastructure, his second such plea in five weeks.

Nearly all publicly traded trucking companies will report third-quarter profits that exceed their results from a year earlier and the previous three months, analysts said.

A coalition of industry groups, including American Trucking Associations, touted its own voluntary efforts toward improving environmental sustainability as part of its push toward what it called “responsible” energy policies.

Officials with the largest package delivery companies said they are in the early stages of preparing themselves for the familiar flood of holiday shipments.

American Trucking Associations said it has hired Mary Phillips as its new senior vice president of legislative affairs.