Truck Equipment: Vocational Profile
A Phone Call Away
As a major multi-brand commercial products manufacturer, Ingersoll Rand has plenty on its plate without having to be fleet experts as well. That's why...
Refuse Collection: Waste away
There are 85,000 residents dependent on the waste management services of Lakewood, NJ, Dept. of Public Works...
Road work
On the big island of Hawaii, a short, safe route from Hilo on the east side of the island, across the mountains to Kona on the west end, has been long...
Personal touch
Seattle, WA-based International Leasing Co. Inc. may be a small independent truck rental and leasing business, but when it comes to competitiveness, it...
Data accuracy
Ferus Inc. has improved the efficiency of its customer service and internal operations since it began using Trans+Plus System Corp.'s Fleet Manager Professional...
Class by itself
Perkins Specialized Transportation Contracting is not just your average heavy hauler...
Competitive edge
Competition is strong in the wholesale food distribution market. Having a newer, reliable, cost-efficient fleet can really make a difference in fostering...
Swept away
Goodyear tires with DuraSeal technology are making flats a thing of the past on the City of Windsor's four street sweeping trucks. Last year, reports...
Bull's Eye
Rising fuel costs are causing many operators of field service fleets to rethink their vehicle specification and fuel economy strategies. SimplexGrinnell,...
Balancing Act
It may be a tough economic climate in which to operate a successful wholesale food delivery business, but Rancho Foods of Vernon, CA, is meeting the challenge...
All the right moves
As a specialty market of ABF Freight System, Ft. Smith, AR, U-Pack Moving doesn't require a great deal of overhead or additional manpower to run its fleet....
Cost conscious
Rock Transfer and Storage (RTS) of Milwau-kee, WI, really racks up the miles on its 73-vehicle leased fleet, picking up and delivering freight throughout...
The perfect partner
Designing and fabricating economical, ready-to-assemble metal building structures is Ceco Building Systems' specialty. Over its 60-year history, the company's...
One-armed bandit
Refuse collection in the residential neighborhoods of southern Oregon is fast and efficient for Rogue Disposal and Recycling...
All sorted out
For nearly half a century, Ferma Corp. — a general engineering contractor in the San Francisco Bay area — has been doing excavation and site preparation work...
Optimizing costs
Running a business successfully is all about optimizing costs while providing the best level of customer service/satisfaction possible. That's why many...
Passes inspection
When you're carrying hazardous industrial, medical and specialty compressed gases like Airgas NCN (Northern California and Nevada region) does, safety...
Ice-road trucking
Hauling freight in America's 49th state presents many unique challenges, but for Carlile Transportation Systems, it's all in a day's work. In operation...
Soup to nuts
When Mims Meat, Inc. expanded its Houston, TX-based meat processing and food distribution company a few years ago, it found itself suddenly needing a...
Green ride in a great park
Each year, more than 3-million people ride the buses at California's Yosemite National Park. That is a ridership figure many municipal transit companies...
Bits and pieces
Absolute Shreds is taking a bite out of identity theft crimes in the metro Detroit area by providing businesses and residents with a very valuable mobile...
Head on
Change may be inevitable, but keeping up with it isn't always easy. Unified Western Grocers (UWG) has seen a lot of changes over its 79-year history,...
One hundred percent
There aren't many utility providers in this country capable of offering customers four separate services from under one roof. The Knoxville Utility Board...
Full Spectrum
When Dixon Bros. Inc. started operating tanker trucks 47 years ago, propane was its sole commodity. Today the Newcastle, WY-based carrier is much more diverse, hauling a variety of petroleum products from crude oil to finished fuels and motor oils, as well as chemicals for a major chemical producer....
Mission Possible
For the last ten years, things have been running along smoothly on the transportation end of Mission Concrete Products' business. But that wasn't always the case....
