Great Dane's president calls it a career 

, from staff and wire reports

Kit Hammond, president of Great Dane Trailers, says he will be stepping down from his current day-to-day position in preparation for retirement. Jim Pines,...

Winn-Dixie facility's expansion almost done 

, from staff and wire reports

Winn-Dixie Stores Inc has announced that the expansion and remodeling of its Hammond LA distribution center is nearing completion. It will replace a facility...

Webb Wheel recalls certain brake drums 

, from staff and wire reports

Webb Wheel Products Inc has announced a recall of all Platinum Series brake drums with cast date codes 017-01 to 273-02 (Julian-style date). While no...

Chiquita may sell Colombia banana operation 

, from staff and wire reports

Chiquita Brands International Inc is discussing the potential sale of its banana-producing and port operation in Colombia to Invesmar Ltd, the holding...

Cost hinders deploying safety technology 

, from staff and wire reports

Despite the development of new and effective safety technologies that can help reduce commercial truck accidents, cost remains a key stumbling block to...

Chicken demand does Pilgrim's Pride proud 

, from staff and wire reports

Pittsburg TX-based PilgrimÕs Pride Corp, the nation's second-largest poultry producer, has reported net income of $10.3 million for the first fiscal quarter...

Mad cow can't slow down Tyson earnings 

, from staff and wire reports

Springdale AR-based Tyson Foods Inc, the nation's leading meat company, has tallied higher quarterly earnings even after sustaining plant closures and...

New Jersey says 'hands off' to cell phones 

, from staff and wire reports

New Jersey has become the second state to pass legislation that bans use of hand-held cell phones while operating a moving vehicle. New York state passed...

SCS Transportation logs a profitable 2003 

, from staff and wire reports

SCS Transportation Inc has reported revenue of $207.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2003, up 6.8% from $194.3 million in the year-earlier quarter....

Werner rolls to nine lucrative quarters in a row 

, from staff and wire reports

Werner Enterprises Inc, the Omaha NE-based truckload carrier, reported its ninth consecutive year-over-year quarter of higher operating revenues and earnings...

Large-truck fatal crash rate falls by 11% 

, from staff and wire reports

Newly released crash data for large trucks shows 1.9 fatal crashes per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2002, an 11% reduction from 2001, according...

CoolBrands tallies some hot revenue totals 

, from staff and wire reports

CoolBrands International Inc's revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2004 shot up by 115.3% to $138,450,000 from $64,299,000 for the same quarter a...

Fired big trucker finds apology only fitting 

, from staff and wire reports

A 412-pound trucker who claims he was fired because he could not fit into a replacement tractor has received from his employer USF Holland an apologyÑand...

Aurora/Pinnacle would have New Jersey HQ 

, from staff and wire reports

Aurora Foods Inc, a St Louis MO-based producer and marketer of frozen food brands, announced integration plans for the combined operations of Aurora and...

Triple Crown trailer fleet to grow by 15% 

, from staff and wire reports

Triple Crown Services Co, an affiliate of Norfolk Southern Corp, will expand its trailer fleet by 15%, spending $20 million in preparation of an expected...

Unions rally in defense of grocery clerks 

, from staff and wire reports

Leaders of unions nationwide have begun to recruit their members to aid striking grocery clerks in Southern California. Union members will try to persuade...

Watkins official sentenced in CDL scandal 

, from staff and wire reports

A supervisor in the Chicago IL-area office of a Florida trucking firm received a 17-month sentence in the commercial driver license (CDL) bribe scandal...

Ahold to divest its US convenience stores 

, from staff and wire reports

Netherlands-based Royal Ahold, the world's third-largest supermarket operator, said its Tops Markets LLC subsidiary intends to divest its remaining 204...

O&S acquires Stever as part of diversification 

, from staff and wire reports

Springfield MO-based O&S Trucking Inc has merged with Stever Trucking and intends to make the company its refrigerated division. Part of its plan to diversify...

US retail truck sales roll forward by 18.5% 

, from staff and wire reports

Franchised dealers of United States truck manufacturers sold 882,307 units in December 2003. This is 18.5% above sales for the month a year ago, according...

Food groups to craft country-of-origin plan 

, from staff and wire reports

Associations for the nation's leading produce, beef, pork, and seafood producers, along with food retailers and wholesalers, have agreed to create a program...

GEM proves valuable in managing gate entry 

, from staff and wire reports

The Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal in New Orleans LA has installed a new gate entry management system (Napoleon-GEM) that has markedly improved terminal...

Sterling, Hino trucks pass rivals in survey 

, from staff and wire reports

Sterling ranks highest among conventional medium-duty trucks in overall product satisfaction, while Hino ranks highest among cab-over engine (COE) medium-duty...

Project aims to recruit more Latino drivers 

, from staff and wire reports

The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) have launched an effort to train and recruit more Latinos as truck...

Fuel tax to rear its head again on Capitol Hill 

, from staff and wire reports

A proposed fuel tax will again be the main issue hampering a compromise on the highway budget bill during this session of the United States Congress....

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