Qantas will close its Avalon heavy maintenance facility at the end of March 2014 due to the gradual retirement of its Boeing 747 fleet, making the operation unviable. Qantas Domestic chief executive officer Lyell Strambi said after a ...
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As the festive season draws near, Australians are being asked to keep safety at work uppermost in their minds. November and December are the most dangerous times of year in workplaces, according to the latest statistics released by ...
A panel of industry leaders gathered at the Ontario Trucking Association conference to address methods to manage generational gaps in the business of trucking. Managing the generation gap in your business, a session that was held on ...
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Packs, COWs, WOWs and FOPs – these are all just another way to describe airline passengers. Don Bell, the retired co-founder of WestJet, spoke to conference attendees at the 2013 Ontario Trucking Association meeting and shed light ...
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Leavitt Group has merged its three Southern California agencies, including Valley Insurance Service, Leavitt Benefits Insurance Services of Southern California and Pridemark-Everest Insurance Services, to boost operational efficiency. ...
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Fourth Quarter Consolidated Operating Results Net sales for the fourth quarter were $291.7 million and increased $44.5 million, or 18.0%, compared to the prior year. Acquisitions, net of $0.3 million of intersegment eliminations, ...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Back when Yahoo was something hollered at a rodeo and no one could conceive of Googling anything, President Ronald Reagan signed an executive order that extended the power of U.S. intelligence agencies overseas, ...
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As part of a recently-launched health and wellness initiative, Arrow Transportation has ordered 55 Bose Ride System truck seats, with the intention of installing the seat in all 300 of its trucks if an extensive trial proves successful. ...
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Polycom has released survey results which show that video-conferencing is on the rise, and the Middle East's main use of it is powered by flexibility. In conjunction with Redshift Research, the survey of 1,205 business decision makers ...
Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, an underwriting manager, has enhanced its kidnap, ransom and extortion insurance coverage with an updated endorsement, the “Schinnerer Enhanced Endorsement.” Effective immediately, the ...
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Red Ball Oxygen, the largest independent welding and industrial gas supplier in the Ark-La-Tex regions, announces its success with ITW Muller's Yellow Jacket orbital stretch wrapper for securing palletized loads. Most customer orders that ...
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Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi LLC, a manufacturing subsidiary of Yokohama Tire Corp., has announced the hiring of its first employee, Human Resources Manager Melissa Orman. Orman will be responsible for hiring personnel at ...
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The federal deficit – the amount by which the US government’s total budget outlay exceeds its total receipts for a fiscal year – is estimated at $680 billion for 2013. The federal debt – the sum total of the ...
IT professionals have plenty of reasons to be thankful these days: rising budgets, salaries and job tenures among them. But when it comes to IT management and spending priorities, they often don’t see eye-to-eye with their ...
A new dedicated infrastructure trust fund would widen roads, expand provincial highways and boost infrastructure overall, says the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA). With the new dedicated trust fund - called the Trillium Trust - revenue ...
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