Posted by Brandy Mcmullen on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 @ 08:23 AM
The 7th Annual Trinity Foundation Golf Tournament will be held August 28th at Heritage Shores Golf Club in Bridgeville, DE. The tournament is a charity event to raise money for the Trinity Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 2005 by the employees of Trinity Transport, Inc. In 2009, the golf tournament succeeded in raising over $22,000 despite the bad weather! Special thanks go out to our top sponsors so far for 2010, including Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, Trinity Transport, Inc., ARM Transportation, Bank of America, Archer & Greiner Attorneys at Law, and the Banning Foundation, with more expected to follow.
The Foundation uses the annual pool of funds to focus donations to three main causes. These are DYLA (Delaware Youth Leadership Academy), the American Cancer Society, and the American Heart Association. Other community support is provided to other worthy community causes such as the DE Teen Challenge, Down Syndrome Guild, DE Humane Society, and Muscular Dystrophy to name a few.
Registration will begin at 7:30 am and shot gun starts at 8:30 am. Our 2010 focus is to host 120 golfers and find generous sponsors to collectively meet our goal of $20,000. The cost to play in the tournament is $100.00 per player and sponsorships begin at $125. Players will receive a gift bag, round of golf, and a chance to win a car along with many other prizes. There will also be food followed by awards. If you are interested in playing with a team of 4 or sponsoring the event, please visit www.ttifoundation.org or email foundation@trinitytransport.com
Posted by Brandy Mcmullen on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 @ 10:05 AM
Trinity employees united together and organized a team to participate in the American Cancer Society's annual Western Sussex County Relay for Life event June 4th and 5th. Participants for the past 11 years, the passion of Trinity's Relay Team grows and grows. Most attribute this to the fact that throughout Trinity and our community, there are cancer survivors and others who have been personally touched in some way by the disease. Team Trinity is an active participant in supporting the services offered to survivors and their families, helping to educate on prevention, and to find a cure! Team Trinity lives the motto, "Celebrate, Remember, and Fight Back."
Thanks to the generous support of the Trinity Foundation and their hope sponsorship of $8,500, Team Trinity raised $16,894.23 to contribute to the collective amazing efforts of the Western Sussex group and Team Trinity was excited to reach the platinum level for sponsorship for the first time. Trinity would like to extend a personal thanks to everyone who was involved in the West Sussex Relay and looks forward to another successful event next year!
Posted by Brandy Mcmullen on Tue, Jun 08, 2010 @ 02:06 PM
A friendly reminder that the DOT inspections are taking place this week, June 8th-10th.
Will your Truck be put out of Ser
vice?
During a 72-hour period in the second week of June, thousands of inspectors will be examining over 70,000 vehicles.
What they find (or don't find) can affect your CSA 2010 Scores. And remember, even violations not resulting in an out-of-service order will be tabulated into the CSA 2010 Safety Measurement System.
Some facts to consider regarding last year's Roadcheck event:
- A record 72,782 inspections were conducted.
- Of the vehicles inspected, 19.6% were placed out of service for mechanical problems (that's about 14,130 vehicles).
- On average, approximately 17 trucks or buses were inspected every minute
Read more about Roadchecks & Solutions on Driver Log Books
Posted by Brandy Mcmullen on Wed, May 26, 2010 @ 09:16 AM
Together, the Banning Foundation and Trinity Foundation hosted their first annual Touch A Truck event from 10 am to 2 pm on May 21st, 2010.
The event was a success in bringing the community together and keeping smiles on kids faces while they had so much fun touching trucks and other exciting vehicles, and meeting our local heroes.
To stimulate the public, the first 50 kids that entered Trinity Transport's parking lot received a free Touch A Truck T-shirt. There were plenty of sno cones, cotton candy, pizza, and popcorn to eat and share, and a dunking booth, face painting, and a horn show to ent
ertain the whole crowd.
Team Trinity appreciates and thanks all the sponsors, volunteers, participants, and attendees for helping make this event happen, and we look forward to hosting the Touch A Truck event again next year!
Visit Trinity's Facebook page to see more Touch A Truck event photos.
Posted by Brandy Mcmullen on Tue, May 18, 2010 @ 03:26 PM
It is truly an honor to be able to announce that Team Trinity has been recognized as a Start! Fit-Friendly Company. For those of you who are not yet familiar with the Start! Fit-Friendly Companies Recognition program, it is an award given by the American Heart Association's Start! initiative. It is intended to be a catalyst for positive change in the workplace across America. It recognizes companies that demonstrate progressive leadership by making the health and wellness of their employees a priority.
We have been recognized at the Gold level, which means that:
- We offer all employees physical activity support at the worksite
- We have increased the number of healthy eating options available to you as employees
- We promote a wellness culture at the worksite
- We embrace at least nine criteria as outlined by the American Heart Association in the areas of physical activity, nutrition and culture
As a Start! Fit-Friendly Company, we are true corporate trailblazers who have adapted the very spirit of the Start! initiative and have the vision to see the positive impact Start! will have on the health and wellness of employees and the company.
Posted by Brandy Mcmullen on Mon, May 03, 2010 @ 10:36 AM
The Internet Truckstop and TIA have jointly launched the TIA Performance Certified Diamond Broker Program on Internet Truckstop's website. What this means is that as a TIA Performance Certified Member, Trinity is identified with the top distinction, five blue diamonds based on the size of our broker surety bond, which is now $250,000 (set voluntarily higher than required by law). When carriers view the 5 blue diamonds next to our load postings, they can recognize the quality of the TIA P3 program and of Trinity's shipments.
As carriers are looking for a quality broker with quality available loads and fair business operations, this distinction sets Trinity apart. Our surety bond is set higher than the $10,000 required by law to $250,000 to demonstrate and reassure our ethical business practices with all motor carriers.
Approved Trinity carriers can view our available loads at no charge online by logging in with their user name and password. To obtain your login, contact our customer service team (866) Trinity or use the Forgot Password link at the top of our webpage.
Posted by Brandy Mcmullen on Tue, Apr 27, 2010 @ 08:54 AM
Trinity Transport, Inc., a third-party logistics supplier of transportation solutions, announced a new service division to serve shippers in various industries from retail to manufacturing.
Trinity Customized Logistics (TCL) was initially launched in response to Trinity's client freight management needs, and has been extended to prospective new customers in need of a more tailored cost-savings approach.
"Our shippers needed to find methods to improve their processes in order to reduce logistics costs to offset the downturn in the economy. Clients were looking for solutions, and by pairing our customized support approach with leading transportation management software, Trinity created opportunities for operational savings between 10-30% of overhead expenses," shared Amy Proctor, Director of Logistics Sales for TCL.
Trinity Customized Logistics is made up of a team of experienced Trinity team members that leverages over thirty years of experience in the industry with a web-based transportation management system. Unlike other TMS solutions, Trinity is unique in that it offers complete support for its software, while other systems require large capital expenditures to simply purchase stand-alone technology.
Jeff Banning, CEO and President of Trinity Transport, Inc., summarized what makes the new division so beneficial. "TCL is an optimal solution for shippers that are looking for ways to enhance visibility and reporting while taking advantage of cost savings from automation, optimization, and other solutions created by our team. We can be as involved or as hands-off as the client would like, but the goal is to lend our experience and recommendations to increase their profit margins, bottom line."
Posted by Brandy Mcmullen on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 @ 01:06 PM
By Adam Miller
Pricing Coordinator There are two fundamental pressures on freight cost-freight and trucks. Everyone expected an overall decrease in capacity as the number of transportation providers realigned with the amount of freight being shipped. What was not so expected was the magnitude with which this tightening continues and the degree it would affect current pricing. So a lot of people are asking themselves-why is capacity still getting so much worse? The simple answer is that we're still seeing repercussions of the recession play out in the market.
Without getting into the overwhelming details of why the global economy tanked over the last two years, let's suffice to say that freight has gone down. In fact, the American Trucking Association listed the Freight Tonnage Index in June 2009 as below its base level set in 2000. However, overcapacity did not balance itself out as carriers operated at or below costs to stay in business, further driving down prices already depressed from the tumbling economy. At the same time, banks held back from collecting on bad debts from insolvent carriers because there was no market for the used equipment the carriers owed on. This was simply not sustainable, and led thousands of carriers to shut down. Many carriers are still holding on just long enough to close their doors with the arrival of this recent tax season.
But aren't things starting to turn around? Yes, but herein lies the pricing dilemma. Most leading indicators point towards a bottoming out of the economy, and in several areas a small bounce-back. This small increase in freight, combined with decreasing capacity, is resulting in a pricing market more controlled by the carriers than the shippers (as it's been in previous years). Furthermore, since many shippers have already renewed their freight bids and budgeted their transportation costs for 2010, they are now finding themselves unable to find trucks to move their freight, especially at the undervalued rates they tried to lock in for the year.
So where are we now? Pricing as a whole is very erratic as both sides try to find a balance, but is increasing at a surprisingly quick rate in many markets. Carriers are desperately trying to make up for some of the losses they've endured over the last year while the general public is simply not yet spending enough to allow the businesses to afford it. Service failures and price increases are starting to force shippers that had benefited from the price-shopping discounts of last year to once again turn to service-oriented relationships with providers they know they can count on. Pricing is just a starting point for most of our relationships, but it is the service, communication, understanding, and trust that we build on top of it that will keep us all moving towards a brighter future.
Posted by Brandy Mcmullen on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 @ 02:48 PM
Hello- My name is John Patton, I am Trinity's Intermodal Manager. In light of the ever-present desire to cut logistics costs, shippers are looking to companies like Trinity to offer methods to achieve this goal. One very effective suggestion and service we offer is to move your freight via railways, called "intermodal". In addition to being a more cost-effective method of transporting goods, intermodal services offer many more benefits you may not be aware of.
First of all, the railways offer extra capacity for moving your freight when the over-the-road trucks are tight, or hard to come by. The intermodal industry continues to add new 53ft containers and chassis to their fleets, whereas many trucking firms are being forced out of business due to the economy. With Trinity as your solutions provider, we are able to tap these additional resources to avoid having your product sit on the dock for days waiting for a truck to come available, which may occur in seasonal periods such as during produce season.
In addition to the extra capacity, you will generally see the rail carriers continue to operate in times of inclement weather conditions, while the highway infrastructure is often shut down and thus the over-the-road trucks come to a stand still.
The rail industry has been working hard to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere. In fact, all rail carriers have a program in place to support the "green" initiative in the country. An intermodal train will emit 6.8lbs of carbon emissions for every 100 ton miles compared to an over-the-road truck that emits 19.8lbs. That same intermodal train can move one ton of intermodal freight approximately 830 miles on ONE single gallon of diesel fuel! Trinity Transport, as a provider of this service, fully supports the green initiative, and is a member of the EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership that is committed to reducing carbon imprints annually.
Finally, I'd like to touch on the pure convenience of shipping intermodal. Since Trinity works directly with the draymen (local trucking company) when picking up and delivering your freight, Trinity has a lot more flexibility for accommodating your needs. We also have real-time tracking electronically of the your shipment from the time the load begins till the time the load empties.
If you are interested in saving money in your transportation budget, helping the environment by going green, finding an extra source of capacity when trucks are tight, and adding convenience and visibility to your shipments, I invite you to contact us for a rate today. It would be our pleasure to serve you, the Trinity Way!
Posted by Brandy Mcmullen on Thu, Feb 04, 2010 @ 01:18 PM
Trinity is supporting and promoting the Hoosier Christian Foundation's Haiti Renewal Fund, launched Jan 19th, designed to assist in a fresh renewal of the devastated nation of Haiti. The Hoosier Christian Foundation is an affiliate of the Alpharetta, GA based National Christian Foundation, founded in 1982.
The renewal fund began with an initial matching grant of $2 million from active National Christian Foundation givers, Lynn and Foster Friess. This means that for every dollar you donate, one dollar will be matched up to $2 million, doubling your donation!
We're challenging all of our team members, customers, and motor carriers to become active supporters of this cause. Trinity Transport is kicking off our collection with $1370 raised, and with the matching fund, that's $2740 so far! Join our efforts, send your checks made payable to the National Christian Foundation (NCF) to: TTI, P.O. Box 1620, Seaford, DE 19973.
H.R. 4462 was passed into law on Jan 22, 2010. The legislation accelerates the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of victims of the earthquake in Haiti.