Freight and Distribution

At the National Transportation Defense Association, we’ve relied on the brands of YRC Worldwide for years. The company’s ongoing support for our association is appreciated around the year. It really comes center stage with their annual sponsorship of the NDTA Scholarship Dinner, a fund raising event that this year attracted more than 400 registrants at our 63^rd Annual Forum and Exposition.

As part of the Forum events, it was our honor to recognize YRC Worldwide with the Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service to NDTA and our members. The award acknowledges the confidence we have in all the brands of YRC Worldwide.

“This year marks the first time we’ve been able to offer government customers our entire portfolio through a single point of contact,” said Dave Johnson, vice president of Enterprise Solutions Group and leader of the YRC Worldwide Government Solutions team. “Now that the regional companies have obtained the necessary certifications, all it takes is one call to access all our services.”

Dave and our other resources at YRC Worldwide talk about Confidence Delivered, and, after years of working together, we know it’s not just talk. The dedicated Government Solutions team at YRC Worldwide is always willing to work with us, no matter what the need, reaching across operating brands to create customized solutions with great freight shipping rates. It’s a flexible approach that benefits us, and also helps non-military government agencies.

Given the type of work we do, it’s vital that we have partners we can trust no matter how dire the circumstances. YRC Worldwide has established the industry-leading Immediate Response Center to provide critically needed transportation services–anywhere in the world–at times of crises, such as a hurricane. The IRC is capable of dispatching massive resources under intense time restraints.

We greatly appreciate all that YRC Worldwide has done for us, from supporting the next generation of transportation leaders through our NDTA Scholarship Dinner, to creating the single-contact approach that simplifies our daily work. YRC Worldwide is truly a partner we can trust.

The  trucking companies truck tables developed from the data were further processed to evaluate the origin and destination of the commodities with respect to the Puget Sound region. These tables were compared to total volumes of truck trips at the external stations and to total internal volumes from the trip generation model. The truck trips for external trips (both internal-external and through trips) compared favorably to the total truck volumes at external stations for heavy trucks. The internal truck trips represent 32% of the total internal heavy truck trips estimated in the trip generation model, so these were used to estimate trip rates for manufacturing and wholesale trade.

The data identifies freight shipping rates for the origin and destination of commodity flows for 30 geographic markets. These regions were associated with appropriate external stations and internal Puget Sound counties to disaggregate these data into traffic analysis zones. Modifications to the original dataset were made to eliminate those commodities that would not likely travel through Puget Sound. The data provided a direct calculation of external (through) trips. These through trips were subtracted from the total heavy truck counts to provide an estimate of internal-external and external-internal trucks at each station. It was assumed that all commodities were moving on heavy trucks. The internal-external and external-internal trucks were distributed to internal zones using the same allocation by industry as the internal truck trips.