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RISING LEVELS OF INVENTORY, particularly in some areas of the retail sector, could warrant some worries about an economic slowdown if it weren't for the fact those inventory levels are being managed "pretty well," analysts and trucking executives say. "It's hard to generalize about that inventory-to-sales ratio because it's so customer and shipper specific," Mark Rourke, CEO and president of Schnei- der, the nation's fifth-largest truckload carrier, told LM in an interview. Rourke said some Schneider shippers had "a great deal" of capability to acquire their products this year, although they might not have arrived in the usual seasonal cycles. |