South Carolina gives green light to PrePass

South Carolina has become the 28th state to install PrePass, deploying the on-highway, safety technology at Anderson Northbound on Interstate 85...

SUPPLIERS

Mack Trucks Inc. announced that Dennis R. Slagle will succeed Paul L. Vikner as president and chief executive officer of the company effective April 1, 2008...

Trucking to stay dominant transport mode

Trucking will increase its share of the nation's freight pool and continue to dominate domestic freight movement into the next decade...

Ingles Markets declares cash dividend

Ingles Markets Inc. directors declared a cash dividend of $0.165 (or 16½ cents) per share on all its Class A common stock and $0.15 per share on all its Class B common stock...

Saputo to gain slice of US cheese market

Saputo Inc., a Montreal, Canada-based cheese producer, plans to purchase Waupun WI-based Alto Dairy Cooperative for $160 million...

Bayview Kenworth joins dealer network

Bayview Kenworth has joined the Kenworth dealer network with locations in Saint John, Fredericton, Sussex, and St. Stephen, New Brunswick...

Speeding truck maintenance
with vehicle lifts
, By David A Kolman

Vehicle lifts are laborsaving devices designed to safely raise and hold up vehicles to facilitate maintenance...

How's your rollover awareness?
, David A Kolman

The Rollover Prevention Summits, sponsored by the US Department of Transportation (DOT), National Tank Truck Carriers, and Refrigerated Transporter's sister publication, Bulk Transporter, were an enlightening experience...

PacLease upgrades telematics system

Paccar Leasing Co. (PacLease) is offering PacTrac BLU, an enhancement to the PacTrac telematics system...

It's Fresh & Easy being green
with hybrid Vector's help

Featuring Carrier's patented Deltek diesel-electric technology, the Vector 1800MT system is a radical departure from conventional mechanical refrigeration...

SCS Refrigerated Services selects Priya

SCS Refrigerated Services LLC has selected Motek's Priya to replace its existing warehouse management system...

Calavo joins anti-terrorism partnership

Calavo Growers Inc has become the first and only validated avocado distributor member of the United States Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program...

England unit expands TenFold relationship

TenFold Corp has expanded its relationship with England Logistics...

EPA honors TransAm Trucking Inc

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has presented Olathe KS-based TransAm Trucking Inc an Environmental Excellence Award...

XATA agrees to acquire GeoLogic Solutions

XATA Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire GeoLogic Solutions Inc. for approximately $17.5 million...

Fontaine Parts Connection is established

Fifthwheel manufacturer Fontaine International-North America has launched a new company dedicated to the aftermarket. Fontaine Parts Connection will provide...

ATA Truck Tonnage Index surges 4.1%

The American Trucking Associations' advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index jumped 4.1 percent in December 2007...

GREENTrace tracks food from field to fork

InSync Software Inc is offering the GREENTrace food safety system for fresh food industries...

ALDI breaks ground
on Florida headquarters

Officials with discount grocer ALDI were joined by Haines City FL Mayor Philip Hinkle and the Haines City Economic Development Council at the groundbreaking for the company’s Florida headquarters and distribution center....

New Orleans Cold Storage
staying in Crescent City

The Port of New Orleans’ Dock Board approved an engineering contract to build a new headquarters for New Orleans Cold Storage....

Two supermarket chains
join EPA's GreenChill

Two supermarket chains, Hannaford Brothers and Whole Foods, have joined the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) GreenChill Partnership....

Saputo to gain slice
of US cheese market

Saputo Inc., a Montreal, Canada-based cheese producer, plans to purchase Waupun WI-based Alto Dairy Cooperative for $160 million in cash....

England Logistics merges
with Dynalink Systems

England Logistics has acquired an ownership interest in freight forwarding company Dynalink Systems of Inglewood CA. Details of the arrangement were not disclosed....

Appeals court upholds ATA
hours-of-service position

The American Trucking Associations is pleased that the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has denied Public Citizen’s motion to vacate interim regulations adopted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration governing truck driver work and rest, known as hours-of-service (HOS) regulations....