Consolidated Freightways helps manage transportation pipeline for Lucent Technologies unit; trucking company provides logistics solutions, warehousing support.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 1997--Consolidated Freightways, one of the nation's largest less-than-truckload (LTL LTL - Linear Temporal Logic ) motor carriers, has contracted with the Consumer Products unit of Lucent Technologies to provides logistics solutions, warehousing management and trans-border transportation services between Lucent's manufacturing site in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . "Consolidated Freightways Consolidated Freight was the 3rd biggest trucking company in the US. In the 1930s they started their own truck manufacturing operation, Freightliner, now part of DaimlerChrysler. is responsible for developing a regionalized load plan to ensure we meet required delivery times, while reducing costs," said Charlie Pugliese, manager of Transportation Logistics for Consumer Products. "This plan will help us reap the benefits of shipping telecommunications devices directly to customers instead of sending our product through distribution warehouses first. We expect to realize significant savings in transportation and related logistics costs." At Lucent's 600,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and warehouse in Guadalajara, 17 CF employees manage the warehouse around the clock, routing shipments, creating distribution plans and loading trailers. CF, in conjunction with Mexican carrier partners, will move product to and from Guadalajara to border points in Laredo and El Paso El Paso (ĕl pă`sō), city (1990 pop. 515,342), seat of El Paso co., extreme W Tex., on the Rio Grande opposite Juárez, Mex.; inc. 1873. , Texas. The shipments are then picked up by CF in the United States and delivered as LTL shipments throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. and software, consumer and business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm for the company. Consolidated Freightways is a freight transportation company primarily providing less-than-truckload (LTL) and logistics services throughout North America using its system of 350 terminals and 21,000 employees. The company also provides freight services between the United States and more than 70 countries. CONTACT: Consolidated Freightways Ken Heiman, 415/326-1700 or Lucent Technologies David Bikle, 201/581-3938 |
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