Transplace Rolls Out Yokohama Tire Deal
PLANO, Texas--Dec. 10, 2001--Transplace, Inc., a leading provider of logistics and transportation management services, today announced an agreement allowing Transplace to offer Yokohama tires to its subscribing member carriers at substantial savings. Through Transplace, members are able to purchase Yokohama tires at every dealer location across the nation."By teaming up with Transplace, we can continue with our philosophy of servicing carriers' growing needs as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible," said Jim MacMaster, executive vice president of Yokohama.
"Tires clearly represent one of the largest expenses for our subscribing members and we are committed to providing members with savings on quality products from quality manufacturers. The arrangement with Yokohama will reduce our members' total tire expenditures," said Michael Ellenburg, executive vice president of Fleet/Procurement Services for Transplace. "We are excited to roll out Yokohama tires to our membership."
The Fleet/Procurement Services division of Transplace helps subscribing members reduce procurement expenditures through discount programs on more than 150,000 items such as truck and trailer parts, lubricants, tools, shop supplies and office products. In addition, the company offers programs designed to lower prices for subscribing members on travel, lodging, drug and alcohol testing and fuel purchases.
Transplace (www.Transplace.com) brings together transportation visibility from multiple Fortune 1000 customers and combines it with transportation capacity from more than 5,000 carriers. Transplace is truly a one-stop shop offering a complete menu of logistics and transportation management services, ranging from complete outsourcing (as a third-party logistics provider) to single shipment assistance and everything in between.
Using its industry leading Dense Network Efficiency(SM) (DNE) platform, Transplace currently manages more than 1.2 million truckload and intermodal shipments and 5.7 million less-than-truckload shipments per year, reducing costs in transportation, distribution, warehousing and procurement. DNE also makes it possible, through Collaborative Continuous Moves (keeping carriers assets moving by visibility to multiple-shipper shipments), to reduce operating costs to carriers and, in turn, reduce transportation costs to shippers.
Transplace was formed in July 2000 through merger of the six logistics business units of the nation's largest publicly held truckload carriers: Covenant Transport, Inc. , J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. , M.S. Carriers, Inc. (since merged with Swift Transportation Co., Inc.), Swift Transportation Co., Inc. , U.S. Xpress Enterprises, Inc. and Werner Enterprises, Inc. .