1. Gary Nichols Director of International Sales US Xpress, Inc. September 16, 2010

2.  Near Sourcing  Capacity Constraints and Pricing Trends  Going Green  Crisis Management

3. Conventional Distribution  Plant to Consumer  Plant to Regional DC  Regional DC to Consumer Or some hard core changes Global Shifts in Production  Asia to Mexico

4. Real or Artificial  Financial Strength: Recapitalization  Industry Economic Issues  CSA 2010

5. The Six BASIC’s  Unsafe Driving  Fatigued Driving (Hours of Service)  Driver Fitness  Controlled Substances and Alcohol  Vehicle Maintenance  Cargo Related One Final Measure:  Crash Indicator

6. Sustainability  Buzzword or Reality ?  Affordability: Is the Money Available? Carrier Rolling Stock  Trucks  Trailers Customer Cooperation  Hours of Operation (PUD)  Trailer Pool Utilization

7. IT Financial Environmental

18.  Near Sourcing  Capacity Constraints and Pricing Trends  Going Green  Crisis Management

19. The purpose of the CSA2010 initiative (Comprehensive Safety Analysis) is to “develop more effective and efficient methods for FMCSA, together with industry and state partners, to achieve its mission of reducing commercial motor vehicle crashes, fatalities, and injuries.” Basically, a new, updated “system” to increase the safety rating among truck drivers and motor carriers. Under the new system, both carrier and driver will be assessed points for their safety performances. Upon reaching the maximum points allowed, the driver or motor carrier will be in violation of the new CSA2010. As a follow up from our previous post: CSA2010 and DAC report to cause more lost jobs for American truckers, violations by drivers and carriers will be taken by SafeStat and stored in a DataBase. This information is from the D.O.T roadside inspections. Upon its implementation, drivers will receive a score according to a three year look back of this information within the DataBase. If their total point score is at the maximum level, current drivers and companies could immediately be in violation and placed out of service and/or terminated.CSA2010 and DAC report to cause more lost jobs for American truckers This is why the FMCSA, itself, has projected that 175,000 drivers could lose their jobs as soon as CSA2010 is implemented. Furthermore, they project that 47.9% of the U. S. trucking companies could fail.

20. However, the level of severity rating system is quite disturbing. Keeping in mind that severity will be rated between levels 1-10, with 10 being the highest, here are a few examples of what severity level rating a driver will be assessed for several violations: Violate a state or local ordinance or regulation: Level 1 Violate hours of service : Level 7 Operate a CMV with inoperative headlight/tail light: Level 6 Violate that a load is not secured : Level 10 Operate a CMV while ill or fatigued : Level 10 Operate a CMV with a leaky tire : Level 8 Operate while DUI : Level 10