Toyota Mfg Texas selects Ryder and it's lead logistics manager

Bakemono
01-24-2006, 06:46 PM
http://www.nyse.com/interface/jsp/NHDetail.jsp?RequestID=2&pageID=NewsHeadlines&sid=PR%2001/23%20725&isdowjones=false

Under the contract, Ryder will support Toyota's new assembly plant in San Antonio, Texas, providing lead logistics management and operations services from supplier and network facility locations in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Utilizing logistics planners, 180 drivers and a fleet of nearly 270 vehicles, Ryder will also provide the pick-up of parts from five states in the MidSouth and Southwestern United States and all deliveries to the San Antonio production facility. Production will begin in late 2006 at this facility, which has the capacity to produce 200,000 Tundra pickup trucks.
Ryder was Toyota's first North American logistics provider, selected in 1987 for the Georgetown, Kentucky plant. Today Ryder provides logistics services for Toyota at locations in Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee, California, West Virginia, Canada, Argentina and Mexico. Ryder also provides in-house logistics design services at Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America's headquarters in Erlanger, Kentucky.

toyotaholic
01-27-2006, 01:19 PM
isnt ryder owned by roger penske?