ORBCOMM Inc agrees
to acquire PAR LMS unit

ORBCOMM Inc and PAR Technology Corporation have entered into a definitive agreement....

Irish food supplier raises
productivity via Heavey RF
mobile voice technology

Glanbia Consumer Products has transformed its warehouse distribution after implementing a Heavey RF Group automated mobile voice technology in a 1 million Euro contract....

Meritor’s longest-serving employee, Loraine Simler retires after 65 years

Meritor Inc recently hosted a celebration in honor of its longest-serving employee, Loraine Simler...

Bay Grove Capital
acquires cold storage
warehouse in California

Bay Grove Capital LLC, a principal investment firm based in San Francisco CA, has acquired a cold storage warehouse facility in Santa Maria CA....

Testa Produce facility
is chosen as Best
Green Building Project

The new Testa Produce distribution center, which is poised to become the first LEED Platinum-certified food distribution facility in the nation, has been selected as Best Green Building Project of 2011 by ENRMidwest (Engineering News-Record)....

PFS plans to operate
three warehouses in China

Preferred Freezer Services (PFS) opened its first semi-automated, 25,000-square-meter temperature-controlled warehouse in Lingang Park, Shanghai, China....

Impactable Dock Ramp can expand
capacity without new construction

For expanding loading dock capacity without excavation and construction costs, the Impactable Dock Ramp from Leum Engineering provides a flexible, yet fixed option....

HOS final rule is revised;
maximum time for driving
within a week is reduced

US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced a final rule that revises the hours-of-service (HOS) safety requirements for commercial truck drivers....

Total Quality Logistics hits
billion-dollar sales milestone

Trucking freight broker Total Quality Logistics (TQL) has reached $1 billion in sales for 2011, marking the first time the 14-year-old company has hit the billion-dollar milestone in a single calendar year....

BI-LO to merge
with Winn-Dixie

BI-LO LLC and Winn-Dixie Stores Inc plan to merge to create an organization of approximately 690 grocery stores and 63,000 employees in eight states throughout the Southeast....

Dual-View accessory lets drivers
verify trailer temps from the cab

Carrier Transicold’s Dual-View Temperature Display, an external temperature and status indicator, provides a reverse image in the rearview mirror so it appears correctly for drivers at a glance....

Shippers, carriers partner
to ‘Stand Up for Trucking,’
plan Washington DC fly-in

With pending legislation and advocacy issues threatening to dramatically raise transportation and supply chain costs, more than 10 industry associations have agreed to participate in a pro-trucking Washington DC fly-in February 1, 2012....

Chiquita rejects use of fuel
from Tar Sands refineries

Chiquita Brands International will work with ForestEthics to eliminate shipping of bananas with fuel from refineries that use Canada’s controversial Tar Sands....

Utility Trailer Mfg facility
achieves safety milestone

Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company announced that its Marion VA manufacturing facility has achieved more than 2 million hours without a single lost-time accident....

UNFI Lancaster TX facility
earns LEED certification

United Natural Foods Inc has received LEED Gold certification by the US Green Building Council for its Lancaster TX distribution center....

OMRON enhances digital
temperature controllers

OMRON Corporation (TOKYO:6645)(ADR:OMRNY) announces the release of these digital temperature controllers: the E5CC (48×48mm) and the E5EC (48×96mm)....

inthinc adds attributes
to smartZones technology

inthinc Technology Solutions Inc has released a new version of smartZones, an enhanced GPS-based technology that allows fleet managers to draw boundaries around customized regions for easier fleet administration and safety monitoring....

Suffolk Cold Storage takes
HighJump into efficiency

Suffolk Cold Storage has achieved impressive results from using HighJump Software’s WMS in the Cloud and its TrueCommerce EDI system....

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....