Preliminary November Class 8 orders weaker than expected

North America heavy GVW Class 8 commercial vehicle preliminary net orders for November 2011 surprised on the downside, coming in well below October actuals, as reported by ACT Research Co LLC....

TCP survey: Carriers upbeat about 2012

The Transport Capital Partners (TCP) Fourth Quarter 2011 Business Expectations Survey found carriers optimistic for the year ahead, with 61% of the carriers expecting volumes to increase in 2012 and only 7% expecting volumes to decrease....

US Foods selects
Aternity FPI Platform
to manage applications

US Foods has selected Aternity Inc’s Frontline Performance Intelligence (FPI) Platform for its strategic end-user experience management initiatives....

World LNG Fuels 2012
scheduled for January

World LNG Fuels 2012 will bring foodservice and refrigerated truck fleets the latest update on using liquefied natural gas as a vehicle fuel....

API software from Aljex
facilitates carrier access

Aljex offers Application Program Interface (API) software to link brokers and third-party logistics providers directly to carrier online services....

Supervalu Inc expands
Western Beef partnership

Western Beef and Supervalu Inc have expanded their partnership to include an additional 22 of Western Beef’s conventional stores and five of its limited-assortment stores in New York and New Jersey....

Millard deploys warehouse
lighting upgrade at facility

Millard, in partnership with Groom Energy, has completed an LED warehouse lighting retrofit at Millard’s Allentown PA facility....

Easyfresh appoints agent

Easyfresh has appointed Tiran Shipping, a shipping and logistics group headquartered in Haifa, Israel, as its agent for Israel and Jordan....

Floral delivery company
makes efficiency bloom
via Prophesy Dispatch

Prophesy Transportation Solutions Inc, an Accellos division, has released a case study of its client Delaware Valley Floral Group....

Chainalytics LLC rebrands
benchmarking consortium

Chainalytics LLC plans to rebrand its Model-Based Benchmarking Consortium as the Freight Market Intelligence Consortium....

TomTom PRO 7150 TRUCK
automates truck routing

TomTom Business Solutions has unveiled the TomTom PRO 7150 TRUCK designed to provide truck drivers and fleet managers with automated routing that takes into account vehicle profiles and road attributes and restrictions....

Preliminary November Class 8 orders fall

FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing November 2011 Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American OEM’s declined 27% from October to 20,400 units. ...

Detroit Diesel marks production of 100,000th DD Platform engine

Detroit Diesel Corporation marked the production of the 100,000th engine coming off its DD Platform assembly line with a celebration at its Redford MI manufacturing facility....

Meritor announces ‘Run with Bull’ winners

Meritor Inc has announced Gale Wickersham of Wick’s Truck & Trailers in Omaha NE and Mike Drovdahl from Southwest Trailer Service in Portland OR as grand-prize winners of the company’s recent “Run with the Bull” aftermarket incentive contest. ...

Foodservice distributors
solidify their power: report

Even as the overall economy languished, the largest US foodservice distribution companies managed to grow and solidify their position at the top of the industry....

Reefer rates accelerate
before Thanksgiving Day

As refrigerated food products were rushed to market before the Thanksgiving Day 2011 holiday, spot market freight availability for refrigerated vans climbed 12%....

Leucadia National Corp
to acquire 79% share
of National Beef ops

US Premium Beef LLC and National Beef Packing Company LLC announced that National Beef's owners have entered into an agreement with Leucadia National Corporation under which Leucadia will acquire about 79% of the ownership interests in National Beef....