Although “freight is not sitting on the dock right now,” demand “has not changed in any meaningful way … and is growing at the same rate as 2011,” according to Derek Leathers, president and COO of Werner Enterprises
PRINCETON, NJ. Although “freight is not sitting on the dock right now,” demand “has not changed in any meaningful way … and is growing at the same rate as 2011,” according to Derek Leathers, president and COO of Werner Enterprises (NASDEQ: WERN). Mild weather at the start of 2012 that allowed some trucking activity to be pulled forward accounts for some of the current weakness in the freight markets, “but the tonnage index is still ahead of the previous years and now the freight has to move,” he said during his keynote address at the ALK Transportation Technology Summit.
