FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 7, 2006

TRINCON Develops Driver Turnover Cost Calculator

COLUMBUS, OhioTRINCON GROUP, a leading national transportation industry advisory firm, has developed an electronic worksheet for calculating the costs of driver turnover, and has made it available for free through the company Web site, www.trincon.com.

The worksheet uses activity-based cost accounting to measure the direct costs of lost productivity and revenue associated with driver turnover, idle trucks and time spent recruiting, orienting and training new drivers.
TRINCON, which advises management teams in the trucking industry on issues related to productivity and human resources, uses the same approach to measure the effectiveness of client company programs.

"We are often asked to demonstrate the true costs of driver turnover and many people are astounded when they learn how much of an effect it can have on a company's bottom line," said TRINCON President Duff H.
Swain. "The calculator can quickly generate an accurate picture of the lost productivity many trucking companies face with today's high rates of driver turnover."

An example of the turnover cost calculation would be a 245-truck fleet that has a driver turnover rate of 99 percent and has 13 trucks (or five percent) that sit idle as a result. The company in this example is burdened with approximately $1.57 million per year in lost profits due to idle trucks and recruitment efforts.

In another example, a company with a fleet of 50 trucks would suffer $560,000 per year in lost profits, assuming that five percent of its fleet sits idle and it requires a 10-day cycle time on reseating a truck.

The calculator considers a company's driver baseincluding contract drivers and asks users to input the number of drivers that have quit or have been terminated within a given time period.

For more information on receiving the free calculator, visit www.trincon.com, call 614-442-0590 or e-mail consultants@trincon.com.

TRINCON GROUP is a business advisory company that, since 1982, has provided strategies, planning and implementation services to ownership and management teams in the trucking and transportation industry. President Duff H. Swain has more than 30 years of industry experience and has authored several white papers and trade articles on the subjects of driver turnover, cost-based accounting and other topics. A member of the Truckload Carriers Association, Swain is frequently featured in national publications, including leading industry magazines, The New York Times and USA Today, to discuss issues that affect the trucking industry. He also appears as a featured speaker in the "Fleet Executive" DVD series produced in 2006 by Big Truck TV. Swain is also a principal in TruCost Systems LLC, a provider of activity- based cost analysis systems and software for the trucking industry. For more information, visit www.trincon.com, call 614-442-0590, or e-mail consultants@trincon.com.

Contact:

Duff H. Swain
614/442-0590

Brian Justus
GREENCREST
614/885-7921
bjustus@greencrest.com