Louisville Switching Blog

Rob Williams is our Safety Manager at Louisville Switching. Rob is a team player and always does all that he can to ensure success for everyone, and we love that he is here working with us. To learn more about Rob, read through his answers to the questions below.

Here at Louisville Switching, our Ottawa Yard Trucks take a small part in the overall logistics industry in the United States. We're fascinated with how goods and services are shipped and how they get from point A to point B. That's why we're starting a three-part series on our blog that focuses on the logistics industry. Follow along as we begin the series today looking at planes and water travel. Next week we'll look at trains, and then we'll wrap up by looking at over-the-road transportation.

According to the American Trucking Association, trucks deliver 70 percent of all freight tonnage. In addition, 80 percent of U.S. communities receive goods exclusively by truck. That's a lot of trailers full of goods being transported across the country! If your company is moving and distributing goods, you know the importance of time and efficiency. You have to win the battle of productivity to be productive in the field.

This month, Juan Carlos Varela, the president of Panama, projects that the widening of Panama Canal should be completed. For a long time, the overall size of the Panama Canal has restricted ships due to the size of its locks. The Panama Canal, once expanded, will become a major shipping lane once again, opening the trade route from the Pacific to the Atlantic without forcing ships through the Strait of Magellan.

Kevin Comstock is our truck driver at Louisville Switching. He loads Ottawa Trucks onto our lowboy trailer and delivers them to our customers, both rentals and leases! He is also the one we send out to a customer's premise to pick up a disabled truck that needs repair. We love Kevin's diligence and positive attitude toward his work. He also has a great sense of humor as you will see by the way he answered the questions below.

At the Mid America Trucking show, Don took a second to talk about a Fontaine fifth wheel on one of our Ottawa T2 trucks and explain why it is far superior to any other fifth wheel on the market.

Ottawa has been listening to their customers and made some improvements to the brand new T2 model based on the feedback. At the 2016 Mid America Truck Show, Don Robinson took a second to talk about the new features of the Ottawa T2. We were able to get a video of him explaining the new features from inside the cab. Feel free to scan through the list of new features and watch the video of Don explaining them below.