TQL workers raise nearly
$200,000 for United Way

Total Quality Logistics (TQL) employees recently reached into their pockets during the company’s annual internal United Way campaign and raised $198,089 for the charity....

Temperature monitoring label
automatically generates PDF

PakSense Inc has launched the XpressPDF temperature monitoring label....

Kenworth adds NavPlus system website

Kenworth NavPlus and all its features and benefits are now showcased on a special website (www.kenworth.com/navPlus.asp) within Kenworth’s home page....

Volvo Trucks continues sponsorship of America’s Road Team going forward

During the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) Management Conference & Exhibition in Grapevine TX recently, Volvo Trucks announced its ongoing support of America’s Road Team, which uses professional drivers with outstanding driving records to deliver messages about highway safety and the essentiality of trucking....

Mack will sponsor Share the Road again

Mack Trucks Inc will once again sponsor the Share the Road highway safety outreach program in 2012, company officials announced. Kevin Flaherty, Mack senior vice-president–United States and Canada, made the announcement at the recent American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition....

Purfresh is named again
to Global Cleantech 100 list

Purfresh, a provider of clean technologies that purify, protect, and preserve the global food supply chain, has been named in the 2011 Global Cleantech 100, produced by Cleantech Group....

ATA Truck Tonnage Index
advances in September

The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 1.6% in September 2011 after falling a revised 0.5% in August 2011....

Tony’s Fine Foods selects
PAR LMS for reefer fleet

PAR Logistics Management Systems (PAR LMS) announced that Tony’s Fine Foods will install its two-way reefer monitoring and control system throughout its refrigerated fleet of 156 trailers serving six states....

Easyfresh honors firms
for logistics excellence

Easyfresh has announced the winners of the 2011 Easyfresh Awards of Excellence in reefer logistics....

Cono Italiano establishes
ThermaFreeze alliance

Cono Italiano Inc has formed a strategic alliance with ThermaFreeze Products Corporation in order to use its reusable ice alternative to ship the company’s frozen products....

Millard purchases BEF
Foods distribution center

Refrigerated warehousing and distribution services company Millard has purchased the Springfield OH distribution center of BEF Foods Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bob Evans Farms Inc....

CN gets further onboard
with EcoTherm containers,
purchases another 200

CN has purchased an additional 200 EcoTherm containers to increase customer efficiency and help reduce energy consumption in its temperature-sensitive intermodal markets....

Trademark Transportation
relocates to Joliet IL site

Trademark Transportation Inc has moved from its Bridgeview IL terminal to a larger facility in Joliet IL to provide expanded services for transportation customers....

VIPAR, Meritor offer suppliers 3PL services

VIPAR Heavy Duty has announced a new program with Meritor Aftermarket Services to offer third-party logistics (3PL) services to VIPAR Heavy Duty suppliers...

Eaton offers PEC service replacement plan

Eaton Corporation announced a program that lowers the service replacement cost for its hybrid power systems electronics carriers ...

C R England executive
Dan England is elected
as ATA’s next chairman

The board of directors of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) elected Dan England, chairman of C R England Inc of Salt Lake City UT, as the trucking federation’s 67th chairman....

Courses foster continuous
cold chain improvement

The Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute is offering a new series of cold chain courses in conjunction with the Georgia Tech Integrated Food Chain Center, UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center, and Sterling Solutions....

Thermo King hosts event
in Ireland to show how
it is ‘Driving Efficiency’

Thermo King is hosting an event in Galway, Ireland, to showcase how it is helping transporters meet their energy and operational efficiency objectives....

Transplace joins forces
with Celtic International

Transplace, a Dallas TX-based third-party logistics (3PL) provider, and Celtic International, an intermodal marketing company based in Chicago, have combined to form a leading North American logistics provider....

Utility Trailer Mfg Co
launches mobile website

Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company has launched the mobile version of its corporate website....

Jim Pines stepping down
from Great Dane Trailers

Great Dane Trailers announced that Jim Pines, executive vice-president of sales and operations, will step down from his role at the end of 2011 in order to devote his full attention to personal and family business concerns....

Foodservice firms see
benefits of GS1 standards

Dozens of major foodservice companies are seeing measurable benefits as part of the industry-driven Foodservice GS1 US Standards Initiative, GS1 US said. ...

Dole Food Co acquires
SunnyRidge Farm Inc

Dole Food Company Inc (NYSE: DOLE) has acquired all of the capital stock of the parent of SunnyRidge Farm Inc, one of the top fresh blueberry companies in the United States....

Dot Transportation honors
its 2010 Vendor of the Year

Dot Transportation Inc (DTI) relies on quality equipment, attentive service, and low costs to keep its fleet rolling....

Volvo Group restructuring truck business worldwide

The Volvo Group is reorganizing to better utilize the global potential of brands and products within truck operations. Sales and marketing of all of the truck companies will be organized in three regional organizational units, directly under the chief executive officer. All product development and production of trucks and engines will be placed in two new central organizational units under the CEO....