Dive Brief:
- A. Duie Pyle has reopened a pair of Pennsylvania terminals the privately owned LTL carrier acquired in Yellow Corp.’s bankruptcy real estate auction in 2023, the company announced this month.
- The service centers in Camp Hill and Erie are among four terminals the company purchased for a combined $29.4 million. The other two, in Rochester, New York, and Bridgeport, West Virginia, have not yet reopened.
- The two sites “really help to improve our service and cost value proposition to our customers,” said John Luciani, COO of LTL Solutions, in an interview Wednesday.
Dive Insight:
As it celebrated its centennial last year, the West Chester, Pennsylvania-based company added a combined 225 doors to its regional LTL network.
It took on new facilities in Bangor, Maine, and Queens, New York, while scrambling alongside XPO, Estes Express Lines, Saia and other carriers to reopen acquired Yellow terminals ahead of a freight demand rebound.
A. Duie Pyle wins four Yellow terminals
The pair of reopened Pennsylvania terminals brings A. Duie Pyle to a total of nine service centers in the state and 32 total, Luciani said.
The Camp Hill terminal boasts 85 LTL service center doors and 11 acres of land just off Interstate 83 and U.S. 11, A. Duie Pyle said. The site is undergoing a complete refresh, including all offices, dock area and fleet maintenance facilities, the company said.
The Erie site has 16 LTL service center doors on 3.1 acres, strategically positioned to offer customers more flexible delivery and pick-up services in the areas of Erie and Jamestown, New York. Before adding the terminal to its network, the carrier had previously served the area from its facility in Buffalo, New York, Luciani said.
“You can imagine lake effects, snow events affect services to that area,” Luciani said. “We thought it was the right thing to do longer term.”
