FRESCO freight rate exchange
connects shippers, forwarders

FRESCO, the new Freight Rate Exchange for Shipping Containers, raises the bar in competitive purchasing and sales for the freight forwarding sector and buyers of freight services (shippers)....

CARB approves amendments to regulations

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has approved amendments to the In-Use On-Road Diesel Vehicle Regulation (Truck and Bus Rule) and the Heavy-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Regulation ...

Harvest Meat Company
expanding its services

The Kansas City KS-based branch of Harvest Meat Company, a wholesale refrigerated distributor, is expanding its services to include routes into Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Iowa....

ATA announces captains
of America’s Road Team

The American Trucking Associations has named the captains of the 2011-2012 America’s Road Team. This group of million-mile, accident-free professional truck drivers will spend the next two years representing the trucking industry and delivering its highway safety message to motorists....

Bay Grove Capital LLC
announces acquisition
of Terminal Freezers Inc

Bay Grove Capital LLC, a San Francisco CA-based principal investment firm, has acquired the assets of Terminal Freezers Inc, a cold storage company headquartered in Burlington WA with facilities in California, Oregon, and Texas....

IFDA study explores
distributor relationship
to manufacturer

Relationships in foodservice are vital to supply chain partner success....

China heavy-duty truck demand declines

Sales of heavy-duty commercial vehicles totaled 204,250 units in third quarter 2010, a 16% increase from third quarter 2009 but a 36% decline from the record sales of the second quarter of this year. ...

December Class 8 preliminary orders surge

December preliminary net orders of heavy-duty Class 8 commercial vehicles for North American markets were 25,500 units, according to ACT Research Co. ...

PTDI recertifies three training programs

Three driver training programs concerned with driver safety and offering quality training recently received recertification of their courses from the Professional Truck Driver Institute (PTDI): ATDS, Elm Mott TX; Baker College of Cadillac MI; and Houston (TX) Community College Commercial Truck Driving Center. The current list of all schools with PTDI-certified courses can be found at www.ptdi.org. ...

Biodiesel tax incentive gains an extension

On December 17, President Barack Obama signed HR 4853, the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. The legislation, among its provisions, retroactively extends the biodiesel tax incentive through 2011. ...

Four Seasons Produce
launches three websites

Wholesale distributor Four Seasons Produce Inc and its subsidiaries announce the launch of three new websites: FSProduce.com, SunriseLogisticsinc.com, and EarthSourceTrading.com, effective January 10....

US Foodservice–
Albuquerque breaks
ground on facility

US Foodservice–Albuquerque has broken ground on a $24 million distribution center....

DOT proposal seeks
to resolve trucking
dispute with Mexico

The US Department of Transportation has unveiled an initial proposal for a long-haul cross-border Mexican trucking program that complies with US obligations under the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), while prioritizing the safety of products transported across the border....

Ryder System completes
its acquisition of TLC

Ryder System Inc (NYSE:R) has completed the previously announced acquisition of Total Logistic Control (TLC)....

C R England Inc awards
contract for expansion
of ReeferTrak deployment

StarTrak Systems, a subsidiary of Alanco Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: ALAN), has been awarded a five-year contract by CR England Inc to expand deployment of ReeferTrak RT6000 monitoring equipment and logistical services for its intermodal fleet of refrigerated trailers and containers....

D’Agostino picks Park City
Group supply chain system

Park City Group (NYSE Amex: PCYG), a Software-as-a-Service provider of supply chain systems for retailers and their suppliers, has been chosen by D’Agostino Supermarkets, one of the oldest and most prominent grocers in New York City, for a turnkey retail supply chain system....

Solar Power Inc to build rooftop
power system for White Rose Inc

Solar Power Inc has entered into a contract to design, engineer, and construct a five-megawatt rooftop system for installation on the White Rose Inc distribution warehouse in Carteret NJ, which is owned by private equity firm KTR Capital Partners....

StarTrak wins follow-on contract
for additional GenTrak systems

Alanco Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: ALAN), announced that its subsidiary StarTrak Systems has been awarded a follow-on contract from a current major refrigerated container customer valued at $2.6 million for additional GenTrak gen-set-based GPS monitoring systems and a five-year data services agreement....

BioStorage Technologies expands
with sample relocation services

BioStorage Technologies, provider of scientific asset management, cold chain logistics, and biomaterial storage for the bioscience industry, has expanded its service offerings to include a suite of global sample relocation services....

Southworth redesigns PalletPal
unit to make it more ergonomic

Southworth Products Corp has redesigned its PalletPal Level Loader to make it even more ergonomic....

Littelfuse acquires Cole Hersee

Cole Hersee Company has been acquired by Littelfuse Inc of Chicago IL. The combined company will be well-positioned to better serve OEMs and aftermarket customers in the heavy vehicle sector. Cole Hersee will continue to design and manufacture innovative and dependable products, while providing the excellent customer service customers have relied upon since 1924...