Produce safety grows
at Eurofresh Farms ops
with EnviroLock process

Eurofresh Farms, a year-round producer and marketer of greenhouse-grown tomatoes and cucumbers based in Willcox and Snowflake AZ, has developed and is implementing a food safety system to elevate protection of its produce....

Button selects SmartDrive
video-based safety system

SmartDrive Systems has been selected by Button Transportation Inc of Dixon CA to equip the trucking company with an advanced, video-based driver safety system....

McDonald’s honors Tyson
as 2010 Supplier of Year

Tyson Foods Inc, which supplies poultry for many of McDonald’s restaurants, has been chosen as McDonald’s USA’s 2010 Supplier of the Year....

ComSec screening
systems can assist
air cargo community

ComSec International, a Transportation Security Administration (TSA)-certified Independent Cargo Screening Facility (ICSF), offers screening systems to help the air cargo community meet requirements of the 100% screening mandate....

Merchants Terminal Corp
becomes MTC Logistics

Merchants Terminal Corporation, the 82-year-old Maryland based provider of temperature-controlled logistics, has changed its name to MTC Logistics....

Purfresh MRCB distributes ozone
to 16 separate cold storage rooms

Purfresh has released its Purfresh Multi-Room Control Box (MRCB) technology....

Medium-duty truck
production constrained

While medium-duty truck demand has been slowly growing for several months, a strong rebound in North American production of medium-duty trucks is being constrained by continuing weakness in the housing and construction sector...

NAPA Transportation
upgrades to XATANET

XATA Corporation (Nasdaq: XATA) announced that long-time customer NAPA Transportation has signed an agreement to roll out XATANET to its entire 220-vehicle for-hire fleet in November-December 2010....

Marten Transport’s
income accelerates
in third quarter 2010

Marten Transport Ltd, the Mondovi WI-based refrigerated carrier, has reported a 57.9% increase in net income to $5.5 million, or 25 cents per diluted share, for the third quarter ended September 30, 2010....

Chiquita selects PAR LMS
for its reefer trailer fleet

Chiquita has chosen PAR Logistics Management Systems (PAR LMS), a wholly owned subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE: PTC), to provide real-time product monitoring and control for its private fleet of refrigerated trailers....

Integrated Freight agrees
to purchase Bruenger ops

Integrated Freight Corporation (OTCBB: IFCR) has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Wichita KS-based Bruenger Trucking Company and its subsidiary, M Bruenger & Co Inc....

Keller explains importance
of taking correct steps to go
beyond CSA 2010 scorecard

The team of transportation experts at J J Keller & Associates Inc is urging carriers to go beyond the “scorecard” for CSA 2010 and to understand the importance of taking steps to improve their scores...

Preliminary Class 8 data
shows surge in orders

FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing September 2010 Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American OEMs at 14,872 units, a 21.6% increase over the previous month and 38.8% better than September 2009...

Scania collaborates
in research to develop
biofuel-based engine

Scania has been granted SEK 30 million—about EUR 3.3 million—by Sweden’s Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation Initiative (FFI) to develop a biofuel engine intended for heavy commercial vehicles. This research will show how the best characteristics of the diesel and the Otto principle can be combined in an engine that can operate on both alcohol- and gaseous methane-based fuels...

C R England expands
division to Windy City

C R England has expanded its Regional Division with the creation of a new service offering short-haul transportation strategically centered in the greater Chicago IL area....

Great Dane breaks ground
on new reefer trailer plant

Great Dane Trailers officially broke ground on the site of its new refrigerated trailer manufacturing plant in Statesboro GA, in the presence of more than 200 attendees....

Save-A-Lot plans to open
food distribution center

Grocery retailer Save-A-Lot, a wholly owned subsidiary of Supervalu (NYSE: SVU), plans to build a new 325,000-square-foot distribution center in Lexington NC....

Small independent
truckers confront
financial challenges

Gasoline prices have somewhat declined and stabilized for truckers, when compared with the crisis two years ago....

Vehicle Mount Talkman helps
firms accelerate productivity

Vocollect Inc offers the Vehicle Mount Talkman system, designed to help companies accelerate productivity and accuracy, improve ergonomics, and reduce operational costs with vehicle-based workflows in the distribution center/warehouse....

Trucking Conditions
Index rises in August

FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index edged higher in August 2010 to a reading of 2.3. ...

RedPrairie Corporation
enhances Transportation
Management system

RedPrairie Corporation has announced new enhancements to its Transportation Management system....

Dean Foods Co transitions
Schepps-brand products
to Oak Farms in DFW area

Dean Foods Company (NYSE: DF) plans to convert its retail Schepps-brand dairy products to the Oak Farms brand in the Dallas-Fort Worth TX area by early 2011....

McLeod Software expands
into LTL market via EIS
acquisition, integration

McLeod Software is introducing LoadMaster LTL, a new product in the company’s enterprise application software for transportation companies....

England Logistics
official joins IRTA
board of directors

Charles F Myers, director of international business development at England Logistics, a wholly owned subsidiary of C R England, was named to the 2010 board of directors for the International Refrigerated Transportation Association (IRTA)....

First-time contestant Schlecht
wins TMC Skills Competition

First-time competitor Jeffrey Schlecht, Omaha Truck Center, Norfolk NE, was recognized as trucking industry’s top technician after being named grand champion of the Technology & Maintenance Council’s (TMC) 2010 National Technician Skills Competition, held in Raleigh NC recently....