14 Aug Oil Company Beefs Up Infrastructure to Get Trucks Off Crowded Roads For many drillers in the remote Delaware Basin, a section of the broader Permian Basin that stretches across West Texas and New Mexico, the only way to get crude from the fringes of oil boom towns to global markets is to dispatch fleets of trucks to scattered wells, from where they haul oil and water to terminals and various other collection points. Read more...
14 Aug Waste Management Opens 100th CNG Fueling Station as Fleet Expands to 6,000 Trucks Waste Management Inc. announced Oklahoma City as the location of its 100th compressed natural gas fueling station. Read more...
14 Aug Swift, Payless Partner on Employee Footwear Discount Truckload carrier Swift Transportation Co. announced a partnership with SafeTstep, a brand of Payless Shoe Source, as a means of increasing its employee benefits. Read more...
14 Aug Campbell Soup Co. Begins Construction on $40 Million Ohio Facility Campbell Soup Co. began construction on a $40 million distribution center in Findlay, Ohio, on Aug. 8, which DHL Supply Chain will operate as the third-party logistics provider. Read more...
14 Aug Cummins' Connected Diagnostics Tool Available With Zonar Telematics Unit Independent engine maker Cummins Inc. announced its Connected Diagnostics service is available to customers using Zonar’s V3TM telematics control unit. Read more...
14 Aug Crossword Puzzle Solution August 14, 2017 Here's the solution to the crossword puzzle found in the August 14, 2017 print edition. Read more...
14 Aug Ryder Signs Exclusive Deal With Electric-Truck Maker Chanje Ryder is moving into the electric-truck business, an early sign that a market for commercial electric vehicles is beginning to take shape. Read more...
14 Aug FedEx Competing in Tight Labor Market to Staff Round-the-Clock Memphis World Hub FedEx scheduled at least its fourth job fair of the year Aug. 12 to hire for 800 openings at its Memphis hub. The number of permanent, part-time jobs was the same as in June, down from 1,000 in April and up from 600 in January. Read more...
14 Aug TPG Capital to Acquire 3PL Firm Transplace TPG Capital, a global private equity platform, has agreed to acquire Transplace, a provider of transportation management and other third-party logistics services. Read more...
14 Aug Mexico Is Ready for NAFTA Balancing Act There was excitement in the air when Mexican negotiators sat down 25 years ago with their counterparts from Canada and the United States to hammer out what would become the North American Free Trade Agreement. Read more...