Tank Transport - March 2011

SPECIAL MILK & FOOD ISSUE

The National Newspaper of the Liquid and Dry Bulk Transportation Industry

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Coming in May. OEM Product Display Special Issue
Also to be distributed at the NTTC Annual Conference and Equipment Show in Baltimore, MD May 22-24

Mailed with our May issue will be our 2011 Product/Service Directory and Buyer’s Guide

Quality State Oil deepening Wisconsin footprint

by Jack Flanders
Always on the lookout for new
markets, Sheboygan, Wis.-based
Quality State Oil Co. (QSO) is diving
into the marine services sector. Given
the company’s one mile distance from
Lake Michigan, it all makes sense.

Dairy prices rising once
more
Haulers critical to wheat
co-ops

Trains taking over ethanol transport

What is going on in our dairy markets? First it was butter: The CME spot price increased from $1.53 per pound the last day of November to $2.10 less than six weeks later (and has remained there since). Next was nonfat dry milk, increasing on the CME spot market from $1.2250 on Dec. 8, 2010, to $1.72 per pound on Feb. 3. Then came cheddar cheese, where the CME spot price for 40-pound blocks settled Dec. 28 at $1.32 per pound and by Feb. 3 closed at nearly $1.79.

Believe it or not, many of the
Stan Vogel was waiting in line at 8
a.m. one day recently, long after wheat
harvest, to once again unload a truck
full of wheat. Although this sounds
like something from the summer
wheat harvest season, the activity
and economics generated from wheat
aren’t over when the crop leaves the
farm.

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