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Supply chain solutions provider rebrands
Tompkins Associates, a supply chain and business solutions provider, is rebranding itself under the name Tompkins International...
LinkAmerica moving its headquarters to Fort Worth
Tulsa-based LinkAmerica, announced plans to relocate its headquarters to Fort Worth, TX’s CentrePort business park by March. The new headquarters will house the senior executive staff and a center to train about 40 drivers a week, according to a report in the Star-Telegram...
Agent joins Atlas Van Lines network
Moyer and Sons Moving and Storage has joined the Atlas Van Lines network and current agent Crofutt & Smith Moving and Storage has added a new location...
Paccar offers medium-duty warranty program on Kenworth trucks
Paccar Financial is offering a 2-year, 200,000-mi. basic vehicle warranty on all eligible Kenworth Class 5-7 factory or dealer-stock vehicles financed through Paccar Financial. The vehicle must be financed before March 31, 2012...
PA trucking firm charged with falsifying driver logs
D.A. Landis Trucking Inc., of Lancaster, PA, and its owner, Dean A. Landis, were accused of ordering drivers to falsify their daily work logs, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia, which charged both Landis Trucking and Landis with one count of conspiracy and 10 counts of making false statements...
Supply holding down DEF prices
An ever-expanding supply base of diesel exhaust fluid or “DEF” is continuing to help prices inch lower in the U.S., while the opposite seems to be occurring in Canada, according to data tracked by global consulting firm Integer Research...
FMCSA orders Indiana trucking company to shut down
Calling U&D Service Inc. an “imminent hazard,” the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) ordered the Indianapolis, IN, carrier to cease all transportation services immediately...
Drivers shut down Seattle Port in protest of working conditions
Hundreds of truck drivers at the Port of Seattle shut down their rigs last week to protest unsafe working conditions. In addition, more than 150 port drivers traveled to the state capitol Monday to support a bill allowing them the ability to inspect containers and refuse overweight loads...
J.B. Hunt chooses FuelQuest for fuel management
J.B. Hunt Transport Services will outsource its bulk terminal fuel management through FuelQuest’s Fuel Center...
Trucker blocks traffic to protect motorists from erratic driver
State Police credited an unidentified truck driver with protecting motorists by slowing down and blocking traffic in both eastbound lanes of the New York Thruway last Friday to keep drivers out of harm’s way from an erratic driver suspected of being drunk ahead of them...
Diesel prices still a concern
Though the average price of diesel fuel in the U.S. has stayed relatively flat over the last few weeks, trucking companies are concerned about the high level they are stabilizing at, along with their efforts to recoup that extra cost to their operations...
Xata running Twitter campaign to benefit St. Christopher Fund for Truckers
Xata Corp. is pledging to donate $1 for every new follower (up to $1,000) on Twitter from Feb. 7-28, 2012. You can follow Xata at @XataNation...
Ray Harlin promoted to president of U.S. Xpress Enterprises
U.S. Xpress Enterprises has named Ray Harlin president, replacing Patrick Quinn , the company’s co-founder, who passed away in December...
Quality Trailer Products names president
Chris Dietemann has been named president of Quality Trailer Products. Dietemann replaces Jim Painter, who was recently named president of Polar Tank Trailer...
Xtra Lease adding over 9,000 new trailers
Describing the transactions as refreshing its fleet, Xtra Lease has ordered some 9,400 new van and reefer trailers for 2012. Equipped with fuel-saving aerodynamic side skirts, the new trailers will replace many older model trailers that will be re-designated as local cartage or storage trailers, or sold, said Xtra Lease...
MetroGistics makes organizational changes
Dustin Ruch has been promoted to director of business development for MetroGistics, a full-service automobile-transportation company that operates nationwide...
Westbound Bay Bridge into SF to be closed Presidents’ Day weekend
Work on the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge will result in lane and ramp closures and the entire upper deck westbound towards San Francisco is slated to be closed from Friday Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. to Tuesday Feb. 21 at 5 a.m...
Haldex relocates friction center
Haldex is moving its Pennsylvania friction center to a facility with increased production capacity, the company said. Currently located in Harrisburg, PA, the friction center will move to Middletown, PA, to a site three miles off the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
Old Dominion opens Pacific Northwest drayage facility
Old Dominion Freight Line has opened its first Pacific Northwest container drayage facility. The new Seattle-Tacoma Drayage Operation will serve all ports, rail and container yards in the Pacific Northwest, the company said...
Ryder leasing revenue in line with expectations
According to analyst Peter Nesvold of Jefferies, the Fleet Management Solutions business unit—which provides full-service leasing— of Ryder in the fourth quarter of last year posted revenue of $1.075 billion. ...
Bridgestone reorganizes commercial group
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (BATO) has made several personnel changes in its Bridgestone Commercial Group. John Boynton has been named vice president of sales for TBR, Retread and Construction Tires. Within BATO’s Company Owned Operations Group (COO), Doyle Bradford has accepted the position of Vice President, Sales and Operations...
Great Dane facility rolls out 100,000th trailer
The 100,000th trailer to ever roll off the assembly line at the Great Dane Trailers manufacturing facility in Terre Haute, IN, was met with a company celebration on Feb. 1. The trailer, built for Celadon Group, was a Champion CP dry van...
Replacement demand remains key truck-sales driver
The need to replace aging equipment – especially in the Class 8 segment – is what will keep truck sales strong not only for 2012 but well into 2013, according to analysts and OEMs...
AXN Heavy Duty names vp of sales
AXN Heavy Duty has named Jeff Hyatt vice president of sales. Hyatt will be responsible for sales in the OEM, fleet and aftermarket segments in North America...
A thinking man’s approach to driver hiring
Solid thinking is behind the most successful tools. Whether they are high-tech or pencil-and-paper, intelligence and inspiration shine through everything that works well...
Truck weight increase proposal scuttled
A bleary 3 a.m. vote by the House of Representatives’ Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today removed a controversial truck weight increase proposal from the five-year highway funding bill known formally as the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, allowing the committee to send the bill to the House floor for a vote by a narrow 29 to 24 margin...
Economic slippage seen in several reports
Some shakiness is being detected in the U.S. economy, according to several different reports, as consumer confidence and home prices declined, even as the overall employment situation improved during the first month of 2012...
Roadnet Technologies names account representative
Christopher Farmer has been named account representative for the Coastal territory for Roadnet Technologies. Farmer most recently served as senior business development manager for Cirta Communications...
PHH Arval appoints truck engineering vp
PHH Arval has appointed Lenny Pusdesris to the new position of vice president-truck engineering. Pusdesris will lead an engineering team and report to Tom Keilty, senior vice president & COO...
Truck, ocean freight trending up
According to two reports released by research analysts, both domestic U.S truck freight and inbound ocean freight are presenting a positive trend...
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