UPS Freight Cuts Transit Times to Kansas

UPS Freight, the less-than-truckload unit of UPS Inc., said it is reducing transit times on deliveries to and from Kansas.

Shorter delivery times apply freight moving between Northeast Kansas and about 70 U.S. cities, the company said in a statement Tuesday.

Cutting delivery times allows next-day service from Manhattan, Kan., Salina, Kan., and Marysville, Kan., to Kansas City, St. Louis, Mo., Wichita, Kan., Tulsa, Okla., and Des Moines, Iowa, UPS Freight said.

Those had previously been two-day lanes, a spokesman said.



Freight moving from Houston, Nashville, Tenn., and New Orleans to Northeast Kansas will now move within two days instead of three. Freight bound for the area from Los Angeles, San Diego, Norfolk, Va., and Richmond, Va. will move on a three-day schedule.

UPS Inc. is ranked No. 1 on the Transport Topics 100 listing of U.S. and Canadian for-hire carriers.