Trucker hits the road with pet duck
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA
"Truckers are like, 'what the heck is that?'" said Mansheim about the 9-month-old mallard named Frank, propped up on a pillow, head darting from side to ...

Trucker killed in trailer collapse
Chicago Breaking News - Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
A 50-year-old truck driver died Monday after he was crushed in Midlothian by a trailer carrying 70000 pounds of rocks, officials said today. ...

Global logistics: Schneider Logistics opens up five new freight ...
Schneider Logistics, a third-party logistics subsidiary of Schneider National, said this week it has opened up five new freight forwarding offices in the US and Europe in an effort to expand its global supply chain footprint and provide ...

Plastic manufacturer closing Fort Smith plant
KFSM - Fort Smith,AR,USA
FORT SMITH - Jarden Process Solutions, a plastics manufacturing company, announced it is closing it's Fort Smith plant. That puts 93 local workers out of a ...

A Bout of Irrational Pessimism?
Wall Street Journal - USA
Examples include certain bonds issued by General Motors Acceptance Corp and by the trucking company Swift Transportation. Mr. Jensen's Third Avenue Small ...

America's Annual Drive Safer Sunday Observance Set Again This Year ...
MarketWatch - USA
Con-way trucking company last spring reduced the maximum speed of a part of its fleet of trucks from 65 mph to 62, a move the company says should cut fuel ...

Everett trucking firm is stuck In the slow lane
HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
This fall, the Everett-based trucking company's business is down about 30 percent compared with a year ago, as a sluggish economy slows down the flow of ...

APL Logistics hires Knapp
Pacific Shipper - Newark,New Jersey,USA
APL Logistics has appointed Peter Knapp to the newly created position of vice president of the contract logistics unit. For the past 12 years, ...

Trucker gets 15 years for hauling ‘meth’
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
By BOB ANDERSON A truck driver pleaded guilty to possession of more than 500 pounds of methamphetamine Monday and received a 15-year prison sentence, ...

Credit Crisis Leads To Better Freight Cost Control
HULIQ (press release) - Hickory,NC,USA
Respondents believe that this will lead to cost savings on the total freight spend from 2 till 8%, since control is often randomly performed, or even not at ...

Electrolux Falls to 3-Week Low After US Shipments Decline
Bloomberg - USA
By Jakob Lindstroem Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Electrolux AB, the world's second- largest appliance maker, sank to the lowest in three weeks in Stockholm ...

Major Layoffs Planned at Kenworth Plant
Kenworth will all but shut down production at its Renton, Wash., truck plant, when it lays off more than 400 employees at in January, according to published reports.

High Growth Reported for the World Trucking Industry Market Brief
MarketWatch - USA
Trucks -- The Types 2 Single Unit Trucks 2 Tractor-Semi Trailers 2 Multi-Trailer 2 Class 8 Trucks 2 Class 5-7 Trucks 2 4. Market Trends 2 Trucking Industry ...

Road tolls called 'inevitable'
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
An on-board device in the truck receives a satellite signal and calculates the fee depending on the vehicle class. One-third of the 650000 on-board devices ...

Greystone Logistics' Go-To-Market Strategy Yields Results
CNNMoney.com - USA
Greystone Logistics, Inc. (OTCBB: GLGI) -- Greystone Logistics today announced numerous purchase orders resulting from the Company's newly implemented ...

HCL Technologies and TIBCO Expand Global Alliance
CNNMoney.com - USA
HCL is developing a new Logistics Optimizer framework called Logistics Optimizer based on TIBCO CEP and built with TIBCO BusinessEvents(TM). ...

Crete cops bust trucker
Southtown Star - Chicago,IL,USA
... detectives nabbed him trying to meet with the girl in a business parking lot on Exchange Street between stops at his job as a driver for Freightliner. ...

Trucker dies from injuries in I-29 crash
Thursday’s truck and jeep accident on Interstate 29 became a fatality when a 72-year-old Minnesota man became the 41st road death this year in Northwest Missouri.

Beer trucker slain in Atlanta
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
By Tim Eberly A beer delivery truck driver was fatally shot Monday after getting into a fight with another man outside a convenience store near Oakland ...

FMCSA pursues driver screening tool
eTrucker - USA
14 requested proposals for the dissemination of commercial drivers’ safety performance data to motor carriers for use in hiring. As ordered by Congress in ...

Greener Trucking Every Day
International Business Times - New York,NY,USA
By avoiding weigh station stopsand idling in queues, motor carriers reduce fuel consumption and theassociated pollutants. ...

Truck accident cuts power in Natchez
Natchez Democrat - Natchez,MS,USA
By Adam Koob (Contact) | The Natchez Democrat Entergy’s Customer Service Manager Stephen Caruthers said the outage was caused when a large truck, likely an ...

Injured passenger in tractor-truck crash dies
Danville News - Danville,PA,USA
The driver of the truck, Wade Biddle, 23, also of Turbotville, was killed instantly in the Nov. 11 accident. Eiswerth had been listed in critical condition ...

Old Dominion Freight Line Launches 75th Anniversary Tour
Old Dominion Freight Line, Thomasville, NC, kicked off its 75th anniversary celebration at this year's National Industrial Transportation League (NITL) Annual Meeting and TransComp Exhibition in Fort Lauderdale Nov. 14-19.