Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania has received an order for 1,500 Scania Euro 6 trucks from British transport companies Eddie Stobart and AW Jenkinson Forest Products. The order was placed under a new joint-procurement ...
South Korea recently suggested that the South Korean companies should focus on China's domestic demand, urbanization and environmental protection. China's urbanization will bring revenue growth and growing middle class, domestic market and ...
Tags: 3C, Economy, services market, food, cosmetic, automobile, IT
Two hundred thirty-six. That is how many truck occupants died in highway crashes during 2012 who were not wearing a safety belt, according to the federal government. The real number is even higher, when factoring in the 182 occupant ...
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Stateline examines the difficulty for many working families to buy insurance while KHN spends time at a California hospital to survey how some without insurance try to afford care. Other news coverage on health law outreach and enrollment ...
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DIEPPE, NB — The Trucks for Change Network is spreading its influence east to help more charities in Atlantic Canada and they have the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association’s (APTA) backing. Trucks for Change, a broker that ...
Cannon Technologies, the award-winning international leader in innovative containment and 19” cabinet systems, has announced a landmark distribution agreement with Polyrack Tech-Group, the leading German manufacturer of subracks, ...
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Jaclyn O'Laughlin WASHINGTON – The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is close to releasing proposals to require electronic logging devices in all trucks and to establish a clearinghouse of positive drug and alcohol tests ...
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Cars that park themselves, radar-guided safety sensors and infotainment systems with web access; automakers are competing for customers who now expect constant innovation. The speed at which the new features are migrating from premium ...
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Manufacturing activity in the New York region expanded in January to the highest level in more than a year, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Jan. 15. The "Empire State Index," generally the first economic indicator in a given ...
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Dieppe, NB — Trucks For Change Network is expanding its reach into Atlantic Canada. Oakville, Ontario-based Trucks For Change (T4C), which was founded in 2011 to allow carriers a way to offer reduced-rate or donated truck capacity ...
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — PHH Arval has added a new hire to its management team. Scott Madden, most recently a manager a Purolator, is the company’s new vice-president of business development for PHH Arval’s central and ...
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TORONTO, On. -- Trucking industry professionals providing services such as accounting, real estate, M&A, consulting, legal and paralegal, now have a dynamic new place to market their services to more than 20,000 for-hire and private ...
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Covenant Transportation Group Inc. said it expects fourth-quarter 2013 net income of 18 cents to 22 cents a share, compared with 10 cents a share in the previous year's quarter. Covenant attributed the improved earnings forecast to higher ...
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American Trucking Associations appointed Curtis Shewchuk of Con-way Inc. as chairman of the group's Homeland Security Policy Committee, ATA said Jan. 14. Shewchuk is chief security officer of Con-way, based in Ann Arbor, Mich. He replaces ...
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Prices paid to U.S. producers rose for first time in three months, increasing 0.4% in December, the Labor Department reported Jan. 15. Last month's producer price index reading followed a dip of 0.1% in November. Economists' forecast ...
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