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* North Caroline - Multi Group Logistics orders 600 Volvo tractors
Greensboro,NC,USA -Fleet Owner -Oct 10, 2014: -- Multi Group Logistics has placed an order or 600 Volvo VNL 670 tractos. The trucks are equipped with advanced safety and efficiency features, including Volvo’s I-Shift automated manual transmission. They will be used as additions to the company’s current fleet and replacements for trucks retired from service... Multi Group Logistics operates nationally with 550 power units and 850 trailers... The company equipped the trucks with a number of fuel-efficient technologies, including Volvo’s XE – eXceptional Efficiency – powertrain package... By fully integrating the Volvo D13 engine, Volvo I-Shift automated manual transmission and other truck components, the XE powertrain package delivers increased fuel efficiency... The Volvo VNL models were also spec’d with Volvo Enhanced Stability Technology (VEST), Volvo Enhanced Cruise (VEC) with Active Braking and Volvo’s Lane Departure Warning system...
* North Caroline - Daimler Trucks North America sued by EEOC for retaliation
Charlotte,N.C.,USA -U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Contact -9 Oct 2014: -- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC, a Delaware corporation that operates a manufacturing plant in Mt. Holly, N.C., violated federal law by firing a female employee because she complained about sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today... According to the EEOC's complaint, April Holt worked at Daimler's Mt. Holly plant as a truck assembler... Around Dec. 5, 2012, a male co-worker of Holt's asked her if he could borrow her wrench... Holt was bent over a truck on the assembly line at the time, and the top of the wrench extended out of Holt's back pants pocket... Before Holt could respond, the co-worker reached into Holt's back pants pocket with a flat hand and removed the wrench, while rubbing his hand over Holt's buttocks. Holt complained to her team leader that her co-worker touched her buttocks and the team leader relayed Holt's complaint to the defendant's production supervisor... The EEOC charged that the very next day, Daimler made the decision to discharge Holt, who was notified of the decision on or around Dec. 13.... The EEOC said Holt was fired because she complained about what she reasonably believed constituted sexual harassment... The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Charlotte Division (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) vs. Daimler Trucks North America, LLC; seeking back pay, compensatory damages and punitive damages for Holt, as well as injunctive relief...
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