text: independent contractors | Overdrive - Owner Operators Trucking Magazine - Part 3
  Truckers weigh in on dodging tax liabilities, the oil spill and retread tires.
  Max Kvidera | May 25, 2010
  Where it can do it more cheaply, retail giant Wal-Mart is taking over delivery of supplies from manufacturers to its distribution centers and stores to cut costs. Wal-Mart spokesman Lorenzo Lopez would only say the conversion program began last year and will continue for up to a year. Russell Goodman, editor and chief of www.supplychainbrain.com, interviewed Kelly Abney, the retailer's vice president of corporate transportation, in February. During that interview, Abney said 60 percent of Wal-Mart's non-grocery freight ...