PAM Transportation Services wins award

PAM Transportation Services Inc has received an Environmental Excellence Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency SmartWay Transport Partnership...

To latest Highway Hero,
little girl is the ‘real hero’

To Goodyear’s 25th North American Highway Hero winners, the actual hero is nine-year-old Abby Bern. Despite their life-saving efforts, they insist they’re merely “Abby’s Angels.”...

Safety belt usage
clicks with truckers

Safety belt use among commercial motor vehicle drivers increased significantly in 2007, according to a survey....

SuperValu joins EPA
GreenChill partnership

Retail grocery company SuperValu Inc. has joined the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership, a voluntary program to promote green technologies, strategies and practices that protect the ozone layer and reduce greenhouse gases....

W. P. Carey & Co. acquires
four Best Brands facilities

CPA:16–Global, the REIT affiliate of investment firm W. P. Carey & Co., has acquired four manufacturing facilities from Best Brands Corporation for a purchase price of about $50 million....

FDA warns of tainted
Honduran cantaloupes

The United States Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about cantaloupe being imported from the Honduran company Agropecuaria Montelibano because its fruit appears to be connected to a Salmonella Litchfield outbreak in the United States and Canada....

Greatwide recognizes
its ‘safety superstars’

As part of Greatwide Dedicated Transport’s ongoing commitment to rewarding and encouraging safe driving, the company recently invited its top 32 capacity providers and their spouses to a north Texas resort for Greatwide’s first Driver of the Year recognition event....

Kraft Foods salutes those
that deliver the goods

Kraft Foods Global Inc. has announced three winners in the third annual Kraft Transportation Service Provider Recognition Program: Prime Inc. in the National Carrier category, and Stevens and Tri Hi Transportation in the Regional Carrier category....

ATA projects record-high
fuel expenses for 2008

The American Trucking Associations is projecting a record-high diesel fuel bill in 2008. ATA said the trucking industry will spend $135 billion on fuel in 2008, based on current fuel price forecasts....

Pilgrim’s Pride downsizes
U.S. chicken operations

Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation will close a chicken processing complex and six of its 13 distribution centers in the United States in response to the crisis facing the U.S. chicken industry from soaring feed-ingredient costs resulting from corn-based ethanol production....

PLM opens service center
aimed at reefer trailers

PLM Trailer Leasing has opened a new customer service center (CSC) in Dallas TX. ...

A&P, C&S establish
distribution partnership

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Inc. and C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. have signed a new 10-year agreement to combine their previously separate A&P and Pathmark supply agreements into one partnership....

Hain Pure Protein acquires
Pilgrim’s turkey operations

Hain Pure Protein Corporation—a joint venture between Pegasus Capital Advisors L.P. and The Hain Celestial Group Inc.—announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, New Oxford Foods LLC, has acquired Pilgrim’s Pride Corp.’s turkey production facility and distribution center in New Oxford PA....