04 Dec Fleet Brake Agrees to Buy Pulse Heavy Duty Fleet Brake Parts & Service announced it has entered into a binding letter of intent to acquire the assets of Pulse Heavy Duty, a parts distributor in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Read more...
04 Dec Kroger Switches to Penske to Handle Trucking, Warehousing in Texas Nearly 700 employees who work in a Kroger warehouse in Keller, Texas, were laid off when the supermarket chain terminated a relationship with SouthStar and signed with Penske Logistics, but Penske said individuals affected will be able to reapply for job Read more...
04 Dec Meritor Offers New Replacement Program for Drivelines Meritor Inc. announced a quicker and more economical replacement program for Meritor Xtended Lube MXL and Permalube RPL drivelines as well as Spicer 10 Series and SPL 170/250 driveshafts. Read more...
04 Dec World Trade Boom Sails Into 2018 as Trump Threatens Barriers It was meant to be the year of the trade war. Instead, it was the year of the trade boom. Read more...
04 Dec Home Improvement Retailers Team Up to Operate Houston Warehouse Three months after Hurricane Harvey ravaged Houston, home-improvement retailers Lowe’s Cos. and NFI Industries will open up a new distribution center in the city to handle the extra volume anticipated in the rebuilding effort. Read more...
04 Dec Capitol Agenda for the Week of Dec. 4: New Jersey Drive The dilapidated stretch of Interstate 95, or the Turnpike, along Newark’s metropolitan region in beautiful New Jersey needs to be repaired soon, and raising federal taxes on fuel is the way to go about it, Rep. Donald Payne Jr. said amid Congress’ debate on tax policy. A look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
04 Dec Camrock Joins Vipar Network Camrock Oil & Supply has joined the Vipar Heavy Duty network of independent aftermarket truck parts distributors. Read more...
04 Dec Crossword Puzzle Solution December 4, 2017 Here's the solution to the crossword puzzle found in the December 4, 2017 print edition. Read more...
04 Dec Transport Sector Now Largest Source of Greenhouse Gas Pollution in US For the first time in 40 years, power plants are no longer the biggest source of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution. That dubious distinction now belongs to the transport sector: cars, trucks, planes, trains and boats. Read more...
04 Dec Amazon Delivery Drone Would Dismantle Itself in Sky, Rain Down Parts Amazon received a patent outlining a possible plan for “directed fragmentation for unmanned airborne vehicles” used in deliveries. Read more...