A. Duie Pyle, a leading transportation and logistics provider, is the recipient of NASSTRAC's 2012 Carrier of the Year Award in the Northeast Regional LTL category. The Award will be presented during the NASSTRAC Annual Conference & Logistics Expo that will take place on April 29 - May 2 in Orlando, Fla.

The prestigious award, sponsored by NASSTRAC and Logistics Management magazine, is an annual program that recognizes transportation providers on a quantitative scale in five key areas: customer service, operational excellence, pricing, business relationship, and leadership in technology.

"We are honored to receive NASSTRAC's 2012 Carrier of the year award for the Northeast region for the 4th consecutive year," said Russ Miceli, vice president of sales, who will travel to the Expo to accept the award. "Receiving this award underscores our commitment to focus on those areas that are most critical to our customers as our company brings 'Predictability' to their supply chain."

NASSTRAC regular members who are qualified buyers of transportation services were asked to consider overall responsiveness and attitude of customer service, transit time standards and on-time delivery, price competitiveness, national account manager effectiveness, electronic capabilities and industry innovation among other points when scoring the five key areas mentioned above.

This year, A. Duie Pyle's partner carriers, Southeastern Freight Lines and Dayton Freight Lines, were also awarded this honor in the Regional-Southeast and Regional-Midwest categories, respectively.

"NASSTRAC's goal through this program is to encourage high performance by carriers through this shipper-based recognition program," says Eric Morley, NASSTRAC's current chairman and senior director of supply chain for Best Buy Co. "As a shipper-based association, we leverage this annual awards program to continuously encourage performance excellence in various market segments of transportation. Shippers and carriers alike see this to be a very credible program through which appropriate industry recognition is given."