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UP expanding role in used car market
Seeking to expand its role in the used car shipping market, Union Pacific Corp. on Thursday announced a new Web site for its services ShipCarsNow.com, the Omaha World-Herald reports.

The used car market is roughly three times larger than the new car market, but shipments primarily are by truck, Union Pacific officials say.

UP's expanded service will give car dealers, auto auctions, finance companies, fleet operators and other customers an instant price quote and estimated transit time for shipping cars door to door anywhere in the country, the company said. The railroad will use trains, trucks or both to best meet price and timing requirements, it said.

Union Pacific's longstanding logistics service for new car dealers and manufacturers is called Insight Network Logistics. The used car part of that business, ShipCarsNow, was first created in 2006 as Insight Network Transportation.

(This item appeared Aug. 28, 2009, in the World Herald.)

 

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Its Hoghead Bob and his dog Spot! If ya want a car or truck go see Bob if you want a car or truck go see Bob. GO SEE BOB GO SEE BOB GO SEE BOB!

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That movie "Used Cars" is funny. Hoghead Bob, you're not still thinking
of Ralph Williams Northwest Chrysler-Plymouth and his dog "Storm" who
was not for sale. My former brother-in-law who is in the used car
business say they are crushing those traded in clunkers at a rapid
rate and putting his livelyhood in jeapordy. Now the UP and their
"ShipCarsNow" has me a bit befuddled. It appears the "crushers"
aren't "crushing" and that the old clunker business is like old cell
phones and computers that get new life abroad.

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I don't know why they would be crushing them, just yank the engine and sell the rest of the parts. But, for selling the used car portion whole, I see the problem. The shortage will just be for awhile.

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It's a stimulous...permanently elimimating older cars,
crushing them, getting them no longer in the picture.
The used car market must be in shambles at this point.
The first time buyers of a used cars have had the rug
puled from underneath.

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