Flying J received final approval from the Federal Trade Commission yesterday to merge its travel plaza business with Pilot Travel Centers. The merger, effective today, will help the company emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and create an entity of more than 550 interstate travel center
The Kenworth Truck Company's Renton, Wash., manufacturing plant has received the 2010 Best Workplace for Recycling and Waste Reduction Award from King County's Solid Waste Division for the plant's outstanding efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle
Daimler Trucks North America has recalled about 540 workers to its North Carolina manufacturing plants in response to strong 2010 order activity. The company has also ramped up production at its Mt. Holly and Cleveland plants, where recalled workers will start by mid-July. Recalled workers will also go to the company's components and logistics plant in Gastonia
Business is up, capacity is tightening, and suddenly there's more interest among trucking companies in making acquisitions of other fleets.
One carrier executive who did not wish to be named told HDT he expects to complete at least six acquisitions over the next six months, growing perhaps 30 or 40 percent in the process. He attributed it to a "coming out of the recession" phenomenon
Almost half of fleets are measuring emissions, compared with 40 percent in 2009 and 28 percent in 2008, according to an annual survey conducted by PHH Arval. The survey was designed to gauge fleet managers' insights into environmental issues, how fleets are implementing solutions that would reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and more