Logistics Management - March 1, 2009

David Ross, a trucking analyst with Stiefel Nicolas in Baltimore, opened his mental thesaurus to come up with a few adjectives to best describe the current state of the less-than-truckload (LTL) industry. He took a moment, and then ran down the following list: "atrocious, awful, dreadful, horrible, really nasty, ugly.

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