Prime Inc controls costs
with consolidated billing
service from Paccar Parts

Using a consolidated billing service available from Paccar Parts Fleet Services, trucking company Prime Inc finds the program saves its accounting department dozens of hours of work reconciling invoices each month....

Olympia WA truck driver
is chosen Highway Hero

The 28th annual Goodyear North America Highway Hero is an Olympia WA truck driver who helped save the lives of two people in a car that had come to a stop on railroad tracks, including pulling the unconscious driver from his car before it was struck by an approaching train....

PFG announces expansion
of Springfield MO facility

Performance Food Group Company is expanding its 80,000-square-foot Performance Foodservice Roma–Springfield MO distribution facility....

Emerson provides
Copeland Scroll
compressor to Europe

Emerson Climate Technologies Inc, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), has entered into the European refrigerated trailer market segment through a collaboration with Carrier Transicold, a unit of Carrier Corporation....

Vaughan Foods increases
its revolving line of credit

Vaughan Foods Inc has increased the maximum availability on its revolving line of credit from $3.5 million to $4.5 million....

Americold achieves 90%
reduction in energy use
with lighting upgrade

Groom Energy and Digital Lumens have announced the installation of Digital Lumens’ LED-based Intelligent Lighting Systems at Americold facilities in Massachusetts, Utah, and Wisconsin....

Private equity firm GTCR
completes Fairmount
Cheese sale to Saputo

Private equity firm GTCR has completed the previously announced sale of Fairmount Cheese Holdings Inc, the parent company of DCI Cheese Company Inc, to Saputo Inc for $270.5 million....

GCCA/OSHA Alliance Team
has ammonia safety poster

The Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA)/Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA) Alliance Team has completed work on an ammonia safety poster that provides basic safety information for anyone working in an ammonia refrigeration facility....

Canadian Freight Index sets another record

TransCore’s Canadian Freight Index set another record for spot market freight volume with a month-over-month increase of 11%, despite February being a short month. ...

Transportation professionals recognize Don Schneider with President’s Award

When Don Schneider retired as president and chief executive officer of Schneider National in 2002, the entire transportation industry recognized the significance of the moment....

North American Class 8 Order Backlog Nears 100,000 Units

Class 8 commercial vehicles net orders for North American markets totaled 24,300 units (not seasonally adjusted) in February 2011, down from January, but sufficiently higher than production to push the Class 8 heavy-duty backlog volume to just under 100,000 units....

Cummins Care supplies 24/7 response

Cummins Inc has launched Cummins Care, an enhanced customer assistance program providing 24/7 response. The new program is the latest addition to the operation at the new Cummins Customer Support Center in Nashville TN....

RedPrairie adds support
for VoiceArtisan systems

RedPrairie Corporation plans to support VoiceArtisan development environment technology from Vocollect Inc, part of its recently introduced Next Generation Vocollect Voice systems....

Purfresh protects kiwifruit
in cold storage facilities,
during ocean transport

Purfresh has announced that kiwifruit growers and shippers are increasingly deploying Purfresh Cold Storage and Purfresh Transport to maintain fruit quality in refrigerated storage rooms and containers for long-distance ocean transport....

LTI Trucking Services
adopts TRANSFLO
Express for operations

LTI Trucking Services, a refrigerated truckload specialist, has signed with TRANSFLO Express, the truckstop scanning network from Pegasus TransTech....

DHL receives accreditation
for station in Los Angeles

Logistics company DHL’s Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) station has received accreditation as a Qualified Envirotainer Provider (QEP)....

RM 6000 delivers more capacity
at height within narrow footprint

Crown Equipment Corporation is offering the Crown RM 6000 Series, a narrow-aisle reach truck with a MonoLift mast....

S Katzman Produce
deploys AiroCide
to boost food safety

KES Science & Technology Inc announced that S Katzman Produce is now using its NASA-developed AiroCide (no ozone) food safety air sanitation technology. ...

ATA Truck Tonnage Index
declines 2.9% in February

The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 2.9% in February 2011 after increasing a revised 3.5% in January....

CVSA criticizes proposed HOS
changes as being too complex

In recently submitted comments on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on hours of service (HOS) for commercial drivers, CVSA indicated if implemented the proposed rules could have the unintended consequence of reducing overall commercial motor vehicle (CMV) and motorist safety. According to CVSA, the changes could make roadside enforcement more complex and open the door toward more drivers falsifying their records. ...

Phillips adds shut-off gladhands to line

Phillips Industries has introduced to its product line additional shut-off gladhands for double trailers. Added are two zinc die-cast surface-mount shut-off gladhands and two new bulkhead-mount ones made with composite material for increased protection against magnesium chloride, road salt, and chemicals. ...

America’s back on the road
to gridlock, study reveals

INRIX has released its fourth annual INRIX National Traffic Scorecard revealing gridlock and longer commute times returning to America’s roads. Traffic congestion increased nationwide for 11 consecutive months in 2010 with drivers experiencing increased traffic congestion nearly every hour of the day. The 150-plus-page report is available as a free download at http://inrix.com/scorecard/....

Shippers Condition Index remains in low territory

As reported in the March 2011 issue of FTR’s Shippers Update, the firm’s Shippers Condition Index (SCI) remained in low territory in February with a value of –5.2. FTR expects the index to fall further as the outlook for capacity shortages worsen in the seasonally strong spring months....

Class 8 vehicle orders affirm market vitality

undamentals that support heavy-duty commercial vehicle demand continue to signal the start of an upcycle for the market, according to ACT Research Co. Net orders for Class 8 vehicles continued to surge in January 2011, and despite a modest falloff, commercial trailer orders remained strong. Continued strong demand for equipment indicates trucking fleets are ramping up replacement of vehicles, which has largely been deferred the past two years. ...

TransCore network’s truckload freight volume registers highest single week

Truckload freight availability on TransCore’s DAT Network of load boards increased 12% nationwide in the week ending March 5, according to TransCore Trendlines, a weekly barometer for spot market freight trends. This is the largest load volume for a single week since TransCore began reporting weekly levels in January 2008. ...