/PRNewswire/ Pro-Tech Group, LLC, a minority-owned company providing innovative, sustainable and safe logistics and supply chain solutions, today announced.
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Pro-Tech Group Demonstrates First-Ever Mobile Container System Utilizing Empty Autoracks
Pro-Tech Group, LLCFebruary 16, 2021 GMT
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Feb. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Pro-Tech Group, LLC, has successfully demonstrated an industry-first mobile container system that utilizes empty autoracks on return trips to carry freight in a cost-saving and more sustainable manner than other modes of transportation in supply chain management, the company announced today.
Pro-Tech Group’s proprietary system recently completed pilot test runs transporting pallets of new wheel rims from California to an automobile assembly plant in Michigan. The company’s logistics system is designed around efficiently loading Pro-Tech containers into empty deadheading autoracks for delivery to key hubs across the country. The steel-framed, hard-side containers provide a pilfer-resistant and controlled
Pro-Tech: Backhauls for Autoracks Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief
Pro-Tech Group, LLC has demonstrated what it’s describing as “an industry-first mobile container system that utilizes empty autoracks.”
The proprietary system, Pro-Tech says, utilizes deadheading autoracks in backhaul service “to carry freight in a cost-saving and more sustainable manner than other modes of transportation in supply chain management.” It recently completed pilot test runs transporting pallets of new wheel rims from California to an automobile assembly plant in Michigan. The company’s logistics system “is designed around efficiently loading Pro-Tech containers into empty deadheading autoracks for delivery to key hubs across the country. Normally,[an automobile parts supplier] would rely on trucks to ship parts, a method that can consume up to four times as much fuel when compared to rail transportation. Current estimate