Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instruction) your first question comes from David Ross for Stifel Nicolaus.
David Ross
Can you hear me?
Rick O’Dell
Yeah we can, good morning David.
David Ross
Good morning guys. First I just wanted to ask a little bit about the tonnage trends in the second quarter if you could take it through kind of what April, May, June look like and also in the July you tended that kind of trends held up, but if you could just put the number around that would be great?
Jim Darby
Sure. I will be glad to cover to that, in April as reported year-over-year tonnage trends for LTL we were down 2.3% from a year ago in April, we were down 2.2% in May, we were down 1.1% in June, and for the quarter we down 1.9%. I would point out though if you would look to adjust for the Good Friday affect in April that number really get blown up to minus 4.6%, and for the quarter it would be minus 2.7, and David that of course related to the fact that Good Friday was not in April this year where it was a year ago.
David Ross
Yes of course, and then it also was the connection company acquisition last year you launch the major customer and I want to say that was in the second quarter, was that in first quarter?
Jim Darby
No, it was – you’re right, it’s in the second quarter and it was towards the end in the second quarter primarily around June.
David Ross
Okay.
Jim Darby
And then month-to-date, I think you asked about month-to-date off. So month-to-date for July we’re showing that we’re up 1.7% in LTL tonnage.
David Ross
Okay. So that’s probably, totally the effective lapping, the customer loss I would assume?
Jim Darby
Is that a little bit from industry consolidation and I would say also as Rick mentioned the synergy revenue continues to be positive for us as we go forward.
David Ross
So did you see this in amount of Jevic business coming you way in the quarter, so do you probably knew that company better than anyone else?
Rick O’Dell
I think we had favorable impact from that, from some of those business segment we had some overlapping customers.
David Ross
Okay. And then you guys talk I guess a little bit about on the Georgia Tech initiative with the dynamic planing model for line haul, you said you moved in the second phase, what does that mean and when should we start to see some intangible benefits from that?
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