Swiss Valley Farms
deploys Logility Inc's
Voyager Solutions suite

Swiss Valley Farms, a four-state dairy cooperative with 1,000 members and annual sales in excess of $300 million, has deployed Logility Inc’s Voyager Solutions to improve forecast accuracy and help the company expand into new international markets....

Private investment firm
acquires PECO Pallet Inc

PECO Pallet Inc has been acquired by The Pritzker Group, a private investment firm owned and controlled by J B Pritzker and Tony Pritzker. ...

Marines recruit Sodexo
for mess hall foodservice

Sodexo has been chosen as the winning bidder for one contract of up to eight years to provide food services at 31 US Marine Corps garrison mess halls within the continental United States....

Alanco selling StarTrak
unit to ORBCOMM Inc

Alanco Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: ALAN) and ORBCOMM Inc (NASDAQ: ORBC) have entered into a purchase agreement for the sale of Alanco’s subsidiary StarTrak Systems LLC, a provider of tracking, monitoring, and control services for refrigerated transportation....

ATA Truck Tonnage Index
registers gain in January

The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 3.8% in January 2011 after rising a revised 2.5% in December 2010....

4Front takes dock design,
sustainability education
to yet another location

4Front Engineered Solutions is continuing its cross-country education program with a visit to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater OK....

GTCR will sell Fairmount
Cheese to Saputo Inc

Private equity firm GTCR announced its portfolio company Fairmount Cheese Holdings Inc, parent company of DCI Cheese Company Inc, has signed a definitive agreement to be purchased by Saputo Inc....

Paperless bookkeeping system
simplifies trucking operations

A new system pioneered by TruckTax Inc promises to reduce the time and cost investment required by truckers to manage their bookkeeping, accounting, business tax information, and filings....

England Logistics offers
IES Forwarder product line

England Logistics Inc, provider of third-party logistics and freight forwarding services, has launched the entire suite of IES Forwarder products for users in North America and China....

US Foodservice acquires
Midway Produce Inc

US Foodservice, the Rosemont IL-based foodservice distributor, has purchased Midway Produce Inc, an Indianapolis IN-based produce distributor serving restaurants, healthcare facilities, schools, and other business and industry customers throughout central Indiana....

ATA seeks truckstops’ help in grassroots campaign protesting changes to HOS

As part of its effort to contest the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) December 23 proposal to change the hours-of-service (HOS) requirements for commercial truck drivers, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) is seeking help from truckstops for its grassroots campaign aimed at helping thousands of truck drivers voice their objections to the HOS changes. ...

Ethanol Safety Seminars series planned

Safety is the top priority for America’s ethanol industry and those who transport and bring ethanol to the marketplace. ...

CarrierWatch CSA 2010 Industry Report finds differences among carrier scores

TransCore announced the availability of the CarrierWatch CSA 2010 Industry Report, based on Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) data issued December 12, 2010. The FMCSA data covers all commercial vehicles subject to the new Compliance, Safety, and Accountability (CSA) program, but the CarrierWatch CSA 2010 Industry Report focuses on the approximately 166,000 for-hire, interstate carriers for whom data was reported. ...

January’s preliminary Class 8 orders rise

FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing January 2011’s Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American OEMs at 27,009 units, a modest 1% increase over strong December 2010 activity. ...

Preliminary Class 8 orders up in January

A preliminary reading of heavy-duty Class 8 commercial vehicles net orders for North American markets rose to 27,300 units in January 2011, according to ACT Research Co. The January order volume represents an increase of 320% compared with January 2010. Preliminary net order numbers are subject to revision and are typically accurate to within 5% plus or minus. ...