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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA & Canada
* Canada - Kenworth tri-drives help loggers extend hauling seasonPrince George,BC,Canada -Truck News -30 Aug 2007: -- A B.C. log hauling fleet has extended the hauling season by three weeks by spec’ing tri-drives... “If we didn’t have Kenworth trucks with the right spec’s, we just couldn’t do the job, our trucks would come back broken all the time,” said Steve Vohar, general manager with Pineview. “There are a lot of guys who try and spec’ lighter trucks so that they can haul more logs, but they end up broken down on the side of the road. Dunkley Lumber pays us to keep their mill supplied with logs, not to be sitting on the side of the road"... (Picture: Pineview's Kenworth tri-drives allow the company to extend the log hauling season in B.C.)
* USA - YRC to Begin Labor Talks - Negotiations With Teamsters Could Start in Early September
VA,USA -Transport Topics -29 Aug 2007: -- YRC Worldwide said its subsidiaries will begin contract discussions with the Teamsters union for a new national master freight agreement as soon as early next month. The current contract expires April 1, YRC said late Tuesday...
VA,USA -Transport Topics -29 Aug 2007: -- YRC Worldwide said its subsidiaries will begin contract discussions with the Teamsters union for a new national master freight agreement as soon as early next month. The current contract expires April 1, YRC said late Tuesday...
* Canada - Local trucking company unveils new generation smog-free truckOshawa,Durham,Canada -Newsdurhamregion.com, by Izabela Jaroszynski -Aug 27, 2007: -- After nearly 75 years in the business, a local trucking company is taking up the call for greater environmental responsibility... Mackie Moving Systems, an Oshawa-based company, is incorporating eight new smog-free trucks into its growing fleet. The trucks, which hit the market earlier this year, meet tough new government standards that will virtually eliminate smog-causing emissions from trucks between now and 2010... The new 2007 model trucks are equipped with a device known as a particulate trap, which filters out microscopic particulate matter known to be harmful to human health...
* USA - Evans opens Chesapeake terminal
Chesapeake,VA,USA -Fleet Owner - Aug 29, 2007: -- The Evans Network of Companies announced it has opened a trucking terminal inside the Cavalier Industrial Park... The Evans Network of Companies is a logistics partner with strategically located terminals across the country. The network, which provides transportation services in the intermodal, truckload and flatbed markets, encompasses six divisions: West Motor Freight, All Points Transport Corp., Hale Intermodal Trucking, Century Express, Evans Delivery Company and DM Transport Management Services...
* USA - Landstar to buy back another 2M shares
Jacksonville,FL,USA -The Jacksonville bizjournals.com -August 27, 2007: -- Landstar System Inc. is extending its plan to buy back company stock. The company's board of directors has authorized the repurchase of up to two million shares of stock in the open market and through privately negotiated transactions... Landstar System Inc., is a non-asset-based transportation and logistics provider with a network of more than 1,000 sales agents, 8,000 business-capacity owners and 23,000 contract carriers and warehouse-capacity owners...
* Canada - Kriska acquires Muirs International
Prescott,Ont,CAN-Truck News -27 Aug 2007: -- Kriska Holdings has announced it has reached a deal to assume the international cross-border truckload activities of Muirs International... The deal will be effective Sept. 9, 2007...
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