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PGT Gives Customers One-Stop Shopping<\/strong><\/h3>\n

PGT\u2019s new operation moves high-volume, heavy, valuable, or multifaceted freight with multiple shipments using flatbeds and specialized equipment.<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This is the final installment in a four-part series looking at how fleets are seeking to diversify their businesses and reach new customers in a time of technological and commercial disruption.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Already a diverse operation offering flatbed, dedicated, international, and other specialized hauling services, PGT Trucking diversified right out of the trucking box by launching a \u201csingle-source transportation solution for high-volume or complex project cargo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Already a diverse operation offering flatbed, dedicated, international, and other specialized hauling services, PGT Trucking diversified right out of the trucking box by launching a \u201csingle-source transportation solution for high-volume or complex project cargo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Launched formally last June, PGT\u2019s Project Cargo Management Division bundles the expertise and services of PGT and its affiliated companies, including heavy-haul and cryogenic-tank carrier Southern Pines Trucking, to move high-volume, heavy, valuable, or multifaceted freight with multiple shipments using flatbeds as well as a variety of specialized equipment.<\/p>\n

The Aliquippa, Pennsylvania-based firm, whose primary operation fields over 1,000 tractors, 1,000 flatbeds, and 500 specialized trailers to haul freight in the U.S. and cross-border into Canada and Mexico, describes these projects as \u201cpackaged movements\u201d set up to supply large, complex jobsites located throughout the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Project Cargo Management Division was created because we listened to our customers,\u201d says Chad Marsilio, vice president, Commercial. When a project is complex enough that 30 or more loads per day must be delivered to a job site, he explains, customers prefer to coordinate through one transportation provider.<\/p>\n

Each cargo-management project is as unique as the construction job it serves, says Bill Hershey, director of the Project Cargo Management Division. \u201cA project can run from hauling loads of pipe for shale-oil operations in Pennsylvania and Ohio to delivering over 10,000 legal and specialized loads to the job site for a chemical plant being built near Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

\u201cA project can last for several years with high intensity, and then it\u2019s done and another one starts,\u201d he continues. \u201cWe usually have three or four projects going on at a time. Depending on the scope, some will last three weeks, some for a year or more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hershey says PGT had been doing project management for some time, \u201cand realized we do it well. Our customers like that it\u2019s one-stop shopping. Our drivers like it, too. That it\u2019s work out of the norm for them helps us with driver retention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carrying out a cargo project involves long-range planning as well as on-site management to ensure a safe and orderly process from start to finish. Along with dispatching primarily PGT\u2019s own equipment, the division might set up staging yards near a construction site, put together trailer pools, and provide safety and operations personnel to oversee everything coming into the site, including delivery windows.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe find ways to provide solutions to our customers regardless of location,\u201d says Hershey. \u201cLast year, we delivered over 300 loads of structural steel to a university in Boston, we helped to build a new hospital in Buffalo with over 200 loads delivered, and we have a fleet of drivers who make deliveries every single day into multiple construction sites in downtown New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cProject cargo requires a great deal of energy and attention to detail– from the initial quoting phase through delivery and billing,\u201d he adds. \u201cIt takes trucking equipment but also logistics management. We definitely have become part of the supply chain. We\u2019re the middle man in terms of getting the materials in and filling in all the blanks\u201d for customers.<\/p>\n

by David Cullen<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.truckinginfo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

FLEET MANAGEMENT AUDIT<\/h3>\n

Fleet management is the use of a set of vehicles in order to provide services to a third-party, or to perform a task for our organization, in the most efficient and productive manner with a determined level of service and cost.<\/p>\n

Fleet management activities are shown in the following graph 1:<\/p>\n

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Graph 1: fleet management activities<\/p>\n

The proposal audit analyses and assesses all fleet management activities shown in the graph 1, and its main goals are:<\/p>\n