BIO calls on Congress
to strengthen biofuels
support in legislation

If the advanced biofuel industry is to grow to meet national goals for reducing reliance on imported oil, then enduring federal commitment is vital to maintaining progress in research, development, and investment in building infrastructure...

Pilgrim’s Pride will resume
chicken exports to Russia

Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation (NYSE:PPC) has received formal approval from the US Department of Agriculture to resume exporting chicken products to Russia....

Marten Transport’s
net income climbs
in second quarter

Marten Transport Ltd (NASDAQ: MRTN) reported a 15.2% increase in net income to $5.2 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010, from $4.5 million for the second quarter of 2009....

Nash Finch Company
tallies fiscal Q2 results

Food distribution company Nash Finch Company (NASDAQ: NAFC) announced financial results for the fiscal second quarter ended June 19, 2010....

SDIX to help egg producers
meet regulatory challenge

SDIX (Strategic Diagnostics Inc), a provider of biotechnology-based products and services for a range of life science, biotechnology, diagnostic, and food safety applications, has commercially launched the RapidChek SELECT Salmonella Enteritidis testing system....

Isuzu begins production
of 2011 diesel engines

Isuzu Commercial Truck of America Inc announced that production has begun for the US market’s low-cab-forward medium-duty diesel engines to meet new emissions standards....

Haldex plans to expand
Monterrey, Mexico facility

Haldex Commercial Vehicle Systems has announced plans to further expand the Monterrey, Mexico facility by moving all production activities from the Iola KS manufacturing facility...

Volvo Group produces
300,000th 13-Liter engine

Production of the 300,000th Volvo Group 13-Liter heavy-duty diesel engine was celebrated July 15 during an event in Hagerstown MD, recognizing both the North American team that assembled it and the customer who will put it into service...

ATA supports EBE's
CSA 2010 Dashboard

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) announced its endorsement of EBE Technologies' CSA 2010 Dashboard as an effective driver management system to help large and small trucking companies manage ...

PSI ships MTIS with green
Thru-T and delivery hoses

On July 5, Pressure Systems International (PSI) began shipping the Meritor Tire Inflation System (MTIS) to its OEM customers with a new green Thru-T and green striped delivery hoses to illustrate the true environmentally friendly benefits of the product...

Mack engine orders
surpass 10,000 mark

Mack Trucks Inc announced that its orders for Class 8 vehicles equipped with EPA 2010-compliant engines, when combined with those of its sister company Volvo Trucks North America...

NATSO urges support
for measure to extend
biodiesel tax credit

NATSO, the national association representing truckstops and travel plazas, along with industry partners, urged congressional leaders to support US Sen Charles Grassley's amendment to the Small Business Lending Act of 2010...

Heavy-duty vehicle demand
improvement continuing

A number of freight transportation and commercial vehicle market factors are aligning and setting the stage for continued improvement in demand for heavy-duty vehicles in the second half of 2010 and into 2011...

Knight Transportation’s
Q2 net income surges 26%

Knight Transportation, the Phoenix AZ-based truckload carrier, reported that its net income increased 26.0% to $15.8 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. ...

What’s lighter, quieter,
safer—and now green?
Schwan’s delivery fleet

Many Americans have come to know and recognize the big yellow Schwan’s truck, but few are aware that it’s actually green....

KLLM Transport Services
lease-purchase program
exceeds expectations

KLLM Transport Services continues to build a large team of owner-operators with its lease-purchase program, helping drivers acquire ownership of their own Freightliner Cascadias and Columbias with 18- to 36-month programs....

Purfresh supports USDA
crop research initiative

Purfresh has announced its support of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Specialty Crop Research Initiative....

Fleet management
system to streamline
World Food Program

The World Food Program (WFP), a United Nations organization, is extending its long-term relationship with Chevin Fleet Solutions and implementing the supplier’s web-based fleet management system across all of the 82 nations the WFP operates in....

Price Chopper market’s
reduction of refrigerants
earns GreenChill award

The Price Chopper supermarket in Warwick NY has been awarded the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) GreenChill Silver-Level Certification award for streamlining/reducing the use of refrigerants in its continuing efforts of environmental stewardship....

Ice core samples’ trek
from Antarctica succeeds
—thanks to Klinge Corp

Three Klinge Corporation refrigerated containers made the final leg of a journey more than a year in the making. These 40-foot refrigerated container systems conceptualized by US Antarctic Program support staff and designed by Klinge Corp were entrusted with transporting several million dollars worth of ice core samples collected from Antarctica....

USCS software apps
upgraded successfully

Knowledge Solutions LLC has successfully upgraded the United States Cold Storage Inc (USCS) enterprise software applications from Lawson Software....

Sysco Corp acquires
foodservice distributor
Lincoln Poultry & Egg Co

Sysco Corporation (NYSE:SYY) has acquired Lincoln Poultry & Egg Company, a broadline foodservice distributor based in Lincoln NE....

CVSA Roadcheck results
mirror 2009’s record lows

Results from the Roadcheck 2010, a roadside inspection program sponsored by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), show that the commercial motor vehicle industry is hovering close to the record low out-of-service rates set during 2009....

CTP applauds legislators
for backing higher weight
limit on Interstate highways

The Coalition for Transportation Productivity (CTP), a group of more than 150 shippers and allied associations dedicated to responsibly increasing federal weight limits on Interstate highways, applauded Rep Jean Schmidt (R-OH) and Rep Steve Kagen (D-WI) for encouraging fellow members of the House Committee on Agriculture to support The Safe and Efficient Transportation Act, HR 1799...

Survey: Truckers’ interest
in acquiring carriers rises

Transport Capital Partners LLC (TCP) has recently completed its Business Expectation Survey for the second quarter of 2010, which found that almost half of carriers surveyed are translating optimism for the year ahead into interest in buying another company...