News | May 10, 2005

A. Duie Pyle's Import/Export Services Streamline Freight Forwarding Process

WEST CHESTER, PA - Pick-up and delivery delays, along with complicated pricing, have long been thorns in the sides of freight forwarders on both the import and export side. The paperwork for imports and the shipment itself are usually housed at two different locations; carriers who handle the shipped goods have a time-consuming two-step process, and rarely know who is responsible for the shipments or the shipments' ultimate destinations. Exporters must deal with misplaced shipments and service inconsistencies. Consequently, operations get muddled and costly delays occur.

A. Duie Pyle's recently introduced Import/Export Inland Service takes the complexity out of inland freight forwarding by electronically streamlining the process. Shippers can go directly to a secure section of www.pyleco.com to create the bill of lading and orchestrate where the pick-up will be, optimizing the most efficient plan. Then, both the shipper and its customer can use A. Duie Pyle's Dashboard to Desktop satellite tracking technology to pinpoint the location of the freight from the beginning of its journey to the end, in real-time, taking the guesswork out of the freight's location. A. Duie Pyle's dedicated international service team processes the appropriate paperwork and distributes it through the proper channels for pick-up, preventing delays.

In addition, A Duie Pyle provides simplified pricing plans, Class A CDL Hazmat-Certified drivers, and stringent security measures approved by the Transportation Security Administration.
Strategically located service centers act as inbound and outgoing gateways for A. Duie Pyle customers, and its highway dispatch network utilizes the most direct route for inland cargo transport.

A. Duie Pyle's strategic goal is to service the import/export community as the customers' inland carrier of choice. The Northeast's leader for on-time service, A. Duie Pyle delivers 99% of its regular shipments on time, with 70% of those shipments delivered before noon. Import/Export customers can choose from a variety of A. Duie Pyle specialized services, including guaranteed services even for demanding cutoff times, LTL and TL transportation, A.M. Service, and more.

About A. Duie Pyle, Inc.
A. Duie Pyle, Inc. (West Chester, Pa.), the Northeast's premier transportation and logistics supplier since 1924, provides a complete range of transportation and distribution services including less-than-truckload (LTL), truckload (TL), warehousing, logistics, expedited transportation, pool distribution and assembly consolidation services. The company's 12 LTL Service Centers are strategically positioned throughout the region, allowing break-bulk-free LTL service. Its fleet consists of 740 trucks, all equipped with state-of-the-art satellite technology for perpetual in-transit freight visibility, and two million square feet of public and contract warehousing and distribution. For more information about A. Duie Pyle's services, visit www.pyleco.com or call 610-696-5800.

Source: A. Duie Pyle, Inc.