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FTR Reports August Preliminary Class 8 Net Orders Similar to July

Nashville, IN (September 3, 2010) FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing August Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American OEM’s at 12,337 units, a 8.3% increase over the previous month’s net orders and 16.8% better than August 2009.


FTR "State of Freight" Webinar Replay Now Available

The FTR "State of Freight: The Uncertain Recovery - N.A. Freight Transportation Update and Outlook" webinar was hosted on July 23, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Replay is now available.


FTR Reports Significant Increase in Class 8 Orders for June

Nashville, IN (July 7, 2010) FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing June Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American OEM’s at 15,667 units, a 20.5% increase over the previous month net orders and 90.8% better than June 2009.


FTR Consulting Group - Profiles

Noël Perry
Managing Director & Senior Consultant
 

Noël Perry

Noël Perry is the rare economist to specialize in transportation and logistics.  Noël has followed his passionate interest in the way freight moves over a forty-year career, beginning on a loading dock and culminating in his role as a leading industry consultant.  In private practice Noël continues his strategic work on customer logistics economics, North American transportation demand, carrier competition and ground-breaking research on truck driver supply and demand.  His innovative work in freight demand modeling, modal price competition and driver labor economics are in wide-spread use.  He also maintains his extensive relations with the logistics analysis community, from security analysts to analytical vendors to trade associations.

Before founding Transport Fundamentals  Noël served for thirty years in senior research positions at Schneider National, Cummins Engine Company and CSX.  That gives him a uniquely broad perspective on the market, covering three modes: rail, truck, barge and the supplier sector.   Frequently published, he is a member of the Transportation Research Board, the Transportation Research Forum, the National Business Economists’ Issues Council, the Council Of Logistics Management and, in his spare time, the Society For American Baseball Research.

Noël holds degrees in Architecture from the University Of Pennsylvania and City Planning from Harvard University and is a graduate of Girard College, a unique primary and secondary school in Philadelphia.  He was a veteran of the Viet Nam war.  In his spare time he is a gardener, singer, golfer and amateur World War II historian.  He and his wife, Ginny, live in Pennsylvania.

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