BB&T Capital Markets, a division of Scott & Stringfellow Inc., a registered broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. will host its 20th Annual Transportation Services Conference
on Wednesday and Thursday this week at The New York Palace at 455 Madison Ave. in New York City.
The two-day conference will include presentations by executives from publicly traded transportation services providers. Industries represented include trucking, airfreight, airfreight forwarding, rail and logistics. Among the companies scheduled to present as of Friday are:
Arkansas Best Corp.
C.H. Robinson Worldwide
Celadon Group Inc.
CNF Inc.
Covenant Transport Inc.
EGL Inc.
Forward Air Corp.
Genesee & Wyoming
Heartland Express Inc.
Hub Group Inc.
J. B. Hunt Transport Services
Kirby Corp.
Knight Transportation Inc.
Marten Transport
Old Dominion Freight Line Inc.
Overnite Corp.
P.A.M. Transportation Services
Pacer International
RailAmerica Inc.
Rush Enterprises
SCS Transportation Inc.
Swift Transportation Co. Inc.
The Greenbrier Companies
U.S. Xpress Enterprises
USF Corp.
UTi Worldwide Inc.
Vitran Corp.
Wabash National Corp.
Wabtec Corp.
A panel of transportation executives will provide insight into how sustainable 2004's strong freight trends are in 2005. The panel will discuss issues such as pricing, capacity, capital spending and marketing plans in a potentially decelerating environment in 2005.
Another panel, featuring intermodal industry leaders and executives, will discuss the outlook for intermodal. The panel will address the sustainability of intermodal's growth as well as the outlook for rail service in 2005. Other discussion topics will include pricing and competition from the underlying rail carriers plus thoughts on whether the rail infrastructure can be enhanced to prevent future service issues as industry growth continues.