Industry task force brings clarity, flexibility to revised PTDI standards

High-level industry professionals representing labor, insurance, motor carriers, and driver training schools recently witnessed the culmination of their four-year process to revise the Professional Truck Driver Institute (PTDI) standards for entry-level drivers and driver training courses...

Quantum, Agility help
dairy trucks run cleaner

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc (Nasdaq: QTWW) has received a $434,000 contract for high-capacity natural gas on-board storage tanks from Agility Fuel Systems for use in Class 8 renewable natural gas-powered dairy trucks....

Alliance Shippers chooses
PAR’s monitoring system

PAR Logistics Management Systems (PAR LMS) announced that Alliance Shippers Inc will outfit its entire fleet of 1,700 refrigerated trailers with PAR’s Two-Way Monitoring and Control System....

North America’s largest
rooftop solar installation
begins at reefer facility

Gloucester Marine Terminal is partnering with solar technology leader SunPower Corporation to build the largest rooftop solar installation in North America—a 1.1-million-square-foot project on the roof of the terminal’s refrigerated warehouse near the Walt Whitman Bridge on the Delaware River....

Prime Inc starts deploying
StarTrak’s Sentry system

StarTrak Information Technologies LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of ORBCOMM Inc (Nasdaq: ORBC), announced that carrier Prime Inc has begun broad deployment of Sentry, StarTrak’s two-way communication refrigerated transportation management system....

Tropical Shipping USA enhances
ops via use of Cheetah Drayage

Cheetah Software Services Inc announced that Tropical Shipping USA LLC has implemented the SaaS-based Cheetah Drayage system to enhance its ability to provide on-time trucking services....

Hanson Logistics helps
put Michigan on the map
for agricultural excellence

Hanson Logistics’ deep freeze provides a way to capture the flavor of Michigan’s agricultural products, including berries, cherries, apples, carrots, peas, and other crops....

C R England receives
sustainability excellence
award from Transplace

C R England, a Salt Lake City UT-based global transportation provider, received the Transplace Sustainability Excellence Award at the 2011 Transplace Shipper Symposium....

Carrier Transicold gives
delegation from India fresh
ideas for hauling produce

Looking to increase opportunities in cold chain development, a delegation of 13 executives representing India’s public and private sector launched a trade mission to the United States aimed at improving the country’s quality and safety of transporting perishables....

Choptank Freight Lines
wins Great West award

Great West Casualty Company, as part of the 2010 National Safety Awards Program, recently presented to Choptank Freight Lines its “Gold” award....

Keller enables carriers to e-file HVUT

Keller enables carriers to e-file HVUT J J Keller & Associates Inc is prepared to assist carriers with the filing of their Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Heavy Vehicle Use Tax (HVUT) through its online service, 2290online.com. Launched in 2009, 2290online.com has helped nearly 8,000 carriers file their HVUT, a requirement for vehicles with a gross weight of 55,000 pounds or more. ...

DTNA will ramp up production at plants

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) plans to sharply increase production and employment levels at its Mt Holly NC and Portland OR truck manufacturing plants during the last half of 2011....

Ryder delivers winning
performance for Domino’s

Ryder System Inc (NYSE: R) has received the Domino’s Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) Supply Partner Award for 2010....

Ultima Foods selects
CHEP pallet program

Ultima Foods Inc, a Canadian producer and distributor of yogurt and fresh dairy products, has signed a new contract to transport its products on pallets from CHEP....

Kraft, Feeding America
add 10 more ‘farmers’
markets on wheels’

Kraft Foods Foundation and hunger-relief organization Feeding America are rolling out 10 new mobile pantry vehicles to food banks nationwide....

New Thermo King
dealership shows
owners' commitment
to sustainability

After planning a new facility for the past eight years, Michael and Denise Rudnick, owners of Thermo King of Long Island, have made that dream a reality....

Clean Energy contracts
with Fair Oaks affiliate
to build CNG fuel station

Renewable Dairy Fuels, an affiliate of Indiana milk producer Fair Oaks Dairy, has contracted with Clean Energy Fuels Corporation (Nasdaq: CLNE) to build and operate a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station that will dispense CNG fuel to power the initial fleet of 42 CNG milk-hauling trucks the dairy plans to deploy later in 2011....

Descartes Systems Group
acquires Telargo Inc

Descartes Systems Group, provider of logistics technology, has acquired privately held Telargo Inc....

Klinge Corp provides an answer
for ultra-low-temperature storage

A significant increase in the quality of frozen fish and shellfish can be achieved by blast-freezing fish to an ultra-low temperature directly after they are caught and then using controlled thawing....

OSI Group, Arrowsight
partner to strengthen
food defense services

Processed meat supplier OSI Group LLC will implement Arrowsight Inc’s third-party 24/7/365 Remote Video Auditing (RVA) food defense services in its five US processing plants....

PenserSC, ICS Logistics
form strategic alliance

PenserSC, a third-party logistics provider serving the Southeast region, has entered into a strategic alliance with ICS Logistics....

Hub Group subsidiary
acquires certain assets
of Domestic Transport

Hub Group Inc (NASDAQ: HUBG) announced that on June 3, 2011 its subsidiary Comtrak Logistics Inc acquired certain assets of Domestic Transport Inc, an intermodal drayage carrier headquartered in Pacific WA....

Marine terminal operators
to raise TMF at two ports

The West Coast Marine Terminal Operator Agreement (WCMTOA) plans to raise the current Traffic Mitigation Fee (TMF) at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach CA to $60 per TEU in order to sustain continued operation of PierPass OffPeak gates....

Drive tire features Fuel Max technology

Goodyear is putting more tread on the road while leaving more diesel in the tank with the introduction of its new G572 LHD drive tire with Fuel Max technology. EPA SmartWay-verified, the G572 LHD features 30/32nds of tread. ...

ATA supports electronic logging mandate, criticizes FMCSA proposal

The American Trucking Associations told the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration it supported the agency’s proposal to require motor carriers to install devices to record drivers’ hours of service electronically, but urged the agency to address important device design and performance requirements....