WASHINGTON, DC— The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has shut down Florida-based trucking company, Ken’s Trucking after a federal inspection. The FMCSA declared the company an imminent hazard to public ...
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MONTREAL— TransForce has offered to buy Contrans for about $495 million in cash. TransForce bid $14.60 in cash per share for Woodstock-based trucking company, Contrans. "I have admired the progress of Contrans for some ...
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Port Metro Vancouver is readying itself for labour unrest by upping its security measures. This weekend, members of Unifor-Vancouver Container Truckers' Association (VCTA) and the United Truckers Association (UTA) both voted against a ...
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Roadrunner Transportation Roadrunner Transportation Inc. said it has acquired Rich Logistics, a Little Rock, Ark.-based trucking company that operates throughout the United States and Mexico. Roadrunner also bought Everett ...
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By Lindsay Chichester, UNL Extension Educator Many ranches and farms spend a lot of time working on business plans, mission statements, employee training, goals, and financial management, but how many spend time discussing a disaster ...
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The selection of DB Schenker as the official logistics provider of the 2015 Pan Am Games did not give a fair shot to local trucking and logistics providers, one local firm has complained. In an interview with the Toronto Star, John Flynn, ...
By Steve Doherty Director of National Accounts Accruit LLC and Jeff Nelson Managing Tax Director PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP With bonus depreciation having expired at the end of 2013, many trucking companies are staring down the ...
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The Toll Group has added to its capabilities in the over-dimensional and heavy haulage sector with the conditional acquisition of the business and assets of Nationwide Transport Solutions (NTS). NTS has annual revenues of $17 million, is ...
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After selling MSM Transportation to Wheels Group last year, Mike McCarron joined Wheels to oversee mergers and acquisitions in a bid to consolidate the Canadian 3PL space. To gain a greater understanding of where the freight brokering ...
Penner International was recognized with the MTA / Shaw Tracking Distinguished Member Award for 2013 at the Manitoba Trucking Associations (MTA) annual fall awards gala on Thursday November 14, 2013. The Distinguished Member Award is ...
The truck driver who parked his rig on the side of a Southern California freeway was the cause for the horrific SUV crash that claimed three lives, an L.A. jury concluded. Despite that the SUV collided into the truck – which was ...
It has been a big news week for Canada's biggest trucking company. Last week Montreal-based TransForce announced that profits for Q3 were down from 2012; that it was buying Clarke Transport Inc., and Clarke Road Transport Inc., two ...
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Cargo theft and cattle rustling are crippling crimes for farmers and ranchers. Theft may take the form of one big grab and run, or it may be the death-of-a-thousand-cuts. A tiny sampling of recent cargo hits from the Associated Press: In ...
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Businesses and their senior managers should be made accountable for truck maintenance by extending the chain of responsibility laws, according to Australian Trucking Association chairman David Simon. Mr Simon was opening the trucking ...
A panel of intermodal experts attending the 2013 Surface Transportation Summit, held Oct. 16 by Transportation Media with Dan Goodwill & Associates, shed light on where this mode of transport is headed going into 2014. The panel, ...
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