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Follow on Google News | 2011 Scouting for Food Campaign Gathers 1.8 Million Pounds of Donated FoodSt. Louis-Based Sunset Transportation Organized Logistics, Transported 50 Truckloads in 9 Hours
Behind the scenes, Sunset Transportation, a St. Louis-based third party logistics company, organized and managed a volunteer fleet of 50 tractor trailer trucks that delivered the goods to the St. Louis Area Foodbank. The donated food will then be distributed throughout St. Louis and is expected to feed the hungry for four months. “Scouting for Food” Summary - Pounds of food collected: 1.8 million - Trucks involved: 50 tractor trailers by 15 trucking companies and driver owner-operators - Boy Scouts involved: 30,000 - Number of fire stations: 46 - Time it took to transport food: 9 hours Sunset Transportation began handling logistics for “Scouting for Food” seven years ago when the U.S. Army was deployed to Iraq and could no longer provide transportation and logistics support for the Boy Scouts. When Sunset first began managing logistics, it took two days to completely unload all the equipment. Now the process has been streamlined to take 9 hours. View list of volunteer trucking companies (http://onthemove.sunsettrans.com/ Video (http://onthemove.sunsettrans.com/ Access the PDF version of this release. (http://onthemove.sunsettrans.com/ # # # Sunset Transportation, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo. is a leader in third party logistics (3PL), with expertise in truckload, less than truckload, international, inter-modal, warehousing and freight audit & payment. End
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