Nash Finch tallies fiscal results for 4Q, 2008

Nash Finch Company has announced financial results for the 53 weeks (fiscal 2008) ended January 3, 2009....

PakSense expands South American presence

PakSense Inc. has established a direct sales and distribution presence in South America....

Obama names FDA leaders,
creates food safety group

President Barack Obama has appointed Dr. Margaret “Peggy” Hamburg as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and Dr. Joshua Sharfstein as principal deputy commissioner. The president also announced the creation of a new Food Safety Working Group....

Hanson Logistics upgrading Michigan facility

Hanson Logistics has announced a two-year, two-phase investment initiative for its Hartford, Michigan, cold storage and logistics facility...

New Century to transport replica of Vietnam Veterans Memorial

New Century Transportation has donated a tractor to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund to transport the traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial around the country...

Check card legislation introduced in Congress

Legislation that would allow workers to form unions without voting in private ballots--action that some have labeled an attack on democracy by eliminating the secret ballot--has been introduced into the House and Senate...

Top truck drivers, owner operators honored by TCA

The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) honored the top TCA-member company drivers and owner operators during its recent annual convention in Orlando, Florida...

Rypos diesel particulate filter verified by CARB

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has verified the Rypos DPF/LETRU (Level 2 Plus) diesel particulate filter can be used to comply with the Low-Emission Transport Refrigeration Unit (LETRU) in-use performance standards on most trailer transport refrigeration units using 2002 and older model year engines...

Thermo King help for TRU compliance

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a new Thermo King Service Bulletin on its Internet Help Pages...

TCA safety awards

The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) honored Rocha Transportation Roehl Transport during the Annual National Fleet Safety Awards...

Eaton assists fleet owners
with diesel hybrid truck grants

Eaton Corporation has established a program to assist diesel truck fleet owners in applying for the $156 million in diesel hybrid truck grants available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)....

TCA Scholarship Fund
resistant to recession

Even though the economy has been in a recession, the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) is continuing to help students associated with the truckload industry by awarding scholarships up to $5,000 per year to college junior and seniors....

TCA announces ‘Best
Fleets to Drive For’

Fremont Contract Carriers, based in Fremont NE, and Wannemacher Enterprises, Lima OH, have been recognized by the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) as the “Best Fleets to Drive For.”...

Trucking industry must act
collectively: TCA president

The trucking industry “must act, and act decisively” to work with the Obama administration for legislation favorable to trucking, Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) president Chris Burruss said in his address March 10 at the group’s annual meeting in Orlando FL....

Anchor: Long road ahead,
but 'we will get through it'

The refrigerated trucking segment is the only transportation segment that is doing well right now, said Liz Claman, a Fox Business Network anchor. Claman offered her perspective of the economy during the opening session of the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) annual convention in Orlando FL....

Key to driver retention?
Show them some respect

The theme for this year’s Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) annual convention, “Our Driving Force—Trusted, Professional, and Proud,” was inspired because fleets need to find ways to show drivers that “we value their work and recognize their role in our success,” said Ray Haight of MacKinnon Transport....

Truck-Lite issues 2009 product catalog

With the addition of more than 300 new items, Truck-Lite’s 2009 Full Line Product Catalog now includes 3,000-plus items from which to choose....

ATA Truck Tonnage Index rises in January 2009

The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index climbed 3.0 percent in January 2009, marking only the second month-to-month increase in the past seven months....

Frozen Food Express logs 4Q, 2008 results

Frozen Food Express Industries Inc. (FFEX) has announced its financial and operating results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2008....

Whole Foods, FTC reach
settlement agreement

Whole Foods Market Inc. has reached a settlement agreement resolving the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust challenge to the Austin TX-based supermarket chain’s August 2007 acquisition of Wild Oats Markets Inc....

RFID container tag spec,
web answer service debut

A new ISO (International Organization for Standardization) technical specification will help to ensure the functioning of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on freight containers despite the harsh environments they may be subjected to during transport by road, rail, and sea....

Peterbilt's hybrid vehicles
are eligible for EPA grants

Peterbilt’s complete line of hybrid products are eligible for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grants of up to 25% of the total quoted vehicle cost....

Washington firm recalls
frozen chicken products

Lucy’s Enterprises of Kent WA is recalling approximately 13,776 pounds of frozen ground chicken products that may contain foreign materials....

Highway Hero finalists
put their lives on the line

Nikolay Zashev of Franklin Park IL, Tihomir Tanev of Schiller Park IL, Willie Wilson of Santa Clara CA, Roy Hackett of Nashville TN, and Jorge Orozco Sanchez of Firestone CO were named finalists for the 26th annual Goodyear North America Highway Hero Award for trucking heroism....

Mexico truckers protest
taxes, high diesel prices

Mexican truckers called for federal government relief from a new business tax, rising diesel prices, and the growing threat of hijacking in a day of protest rallies across Mexico recently....