Thermo King, Landshire
develop custom vans
to streamline distribution

Landshire Sandwiches has grown much through its 50-plus years, evolving to best service a growing customer base....

Carriers facing cash squeeze
as receivables drag: survey

Transport Capital Partners’ (TCP) fourth quarter Business Expectation Survey shows how carriers are adapting to the pressures of slowing receivables coupled with ongoing demands of equipment payments and truck utilization. TCP uses the quarterly surveys—as well as conversations with personal contacts—to collect the insights and opinions of the nation’s transportation industry...

NATSO urges US senators
to extend biodiesel tax credit

Senate leaders to quickly extend the biodiesel tax credit before it expires December 31. An extension would ensure an affordable biodiesel supply for the nation’s 3.5 million truck drivers and secure the environmental investments of the nation’s truckstops and travel plazas...

Study advocates enacting
climate adaptation policies

A new white paper asserts that short-term efforts to increase the transportation system’s resilience will reduce long-term costs from climate change and proposes federal policy options for the Obama administration and Congress to address the impacts of climate change on the transportation sector...

J J Keller’s FleetMentor helps
carriers prepare for CSA 2010

FleetMentor, the online fleet management advisor from J J Keller & Associates Inc, has launched a Roadside Inspection Tracking tool that will help carriers prepare for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA) 2010 initiative...

Pulmuone, Monterey
complete tender offer

Pulmuone USA Inc and Monterey Gourmet Foods Inc have successfully completed the tender offer by Pulmuone Cornerstone Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pulmuone, for all the outstanding shares of common stock of MGF....

TCA members transport
commemorative cargo
in salute to the fallen

For a second year, Barry Pottle, president and chief executive officer of Bangor ME-based Pottle’s Transportation and past chairman of the Truckload Carriers Association, donated his time and equipment to drive a truckload of wreaths to decorate Arlington National Cemetery for the holidays....

Commercial vehicle market
growth should surge in 2011

While the medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicle markets are expected to grow modestly off weak 2009 production—the lowest level of production since 1991—the sector will see significant growth in 2011, according to ACT Research Co...

EPA signs two rules
to further protect
Earth's ozone layer

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced two final rules that will further cut ozone-depleting pollutants, protecting the Earth’s ozone layer and reducing harmful greenhouse gases....

Survey gives feedback
on produce traceability

One year after the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) Steering Committee unveiled its action plan to enhance the produce industry’s traceability capability, companies across the produce supply chain have the opportunity to share feedback via a new online survey....

Enhanced importation
of perishable goods
takes off at Houston IAH

The Houston Airport System and Trammell Crow Company celebrated the grand opening of a temperature- and time-sensitive facility at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) to support cool-chain providers in the United States and abroad....

FDA debars Virginia man
from importing seafood

A Virginia man sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to import catfish from Vietnam for fraudulent sale to avoid paying federal import tariffs has been barred from importing articles of food or offering such articles for import into the United States....

ColdShield temperature control
system has special foaming system

VT SVC Inc, a company of VT Systems Inc, is introducing ColdShield, a total temperature management system available exclusively in its Kidron refrigerated distribution truck bodies and trailers....

Kroger registers results
for fiscal third quarter

The Kroger Company reported identical supermarket sales increased 1.3% without fuel in the third quarter of fiscal 2009 ended November 7, 2009, compared with the same period in 2008....

Decker Truck Line salutes
Million Mile Team records

Decker Truck Line Inc recently recognized two drivers on the company’s Million Mile Team for achieving an additional million miles on their safety records....

Global biofuels production
reduces GHGs dramatically

Just in time for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference now underway in Copenhagen, Denmark, new data once again confirms the significant greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions from global biofuels production...

US economic recovery
expected to continue
in 2010, panel predicts

Economic growth in the United States will resume in 2010, say the nation’s purchasing and supply management executives in their December 2009 Semiannual Economic Forecast. Expectations for 2010 are for positive conditions experienced in the second half of 2009 to continue in manufacturing, while the non-manufacturing sector foresees marginal growth...

Daimler Truck Financial
tops in dealer satisfaction

In one of the toughest environments for the US trucking industry in years, Daimler Truck Financial achieved the number-one ranking in the annual dealer satisfaction survey conducted by the American Truck Dealers (ATD), a division of the National Automobile Dealers Association...

Failure to extend biodiesel
tax credit would impact
economy severely: study

The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) released a study conducted by economic analyst John M Urbanchuk. This study examined the economic impact of the biodiesel industry and the negative consequences of allowing the federal biodiesel tax credit to lapse...

Bankruptcy court OKs
plan of reorganization
for Pilgrim’s Pride Corp

Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation announced that the US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas has approved the amended joint plan of reorganization of the Pittsburg TX-based chicken processor and six of its subsidiaries....

Super Store Industries
uses methanol fuel cells
for material handling fleet

Oorja Protonics has secured another purchase order from Super Store Industries (SSI) for its liquid methanol fuel cell technology....

Toyo commercial tires earn
EPA SmartWay verification

Toyo Tires has received US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SmartWay verification for a set of its commercial tire products, the M137 steer tire, M127 free-rolling tire for trailer axles, and the M657, a new drive tire that will soon be available in the United States....

Regulation clamps down
on refrigeration systems
leaking greenhouse gases

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has adopted the nation’s first comprehensive regulation to reduce potent greenhouse gases from commercial and industrial refrigeration systems....

Rand McNally MileMaker
system is going global

Rand McNally’s MileMaker mileage and routing information software is going global. The company is introducing MileMaker Global, a single-source system for accurately calculating routes and miles in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia....

Delphi agrees to supply
Allison hybrid components

Allison Transmission Inc has entered into a long-term business agreement with Delphi Automotive Systems LLC. Under terms of the agreement, Delphi will supply Allison Transmission with key hybrid drive system components and energy storage systems...