Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Re:	California LTL/FTL Domestic Freight Fuel Surcharge for October

CLARIFICATION: Domestic Freight Fuel Surcharge

Effective October 2009, the fuel surcharge on the California domestic freight LTL/FTL service will increase to 16%. Currently fuel is at 14%.

Note: this fuel surcharge announcement applies only to the California domestic freight consolidation LTL/FTL service and does not affect import traffic intermodal moves, cross-docking operations or other FCL traffic handled by the JF Hillebrand intermodal department.