Carriers and Shippers

Carriers-Shippers includes current news, business and industry trends, and innovative practices involving temperature-controlled motor carriers (trucking companies, container transportation operations, leasing companies, rail and ocean-going services) and firms in the cold chain that ship perishables via these carriers. Also included are news, trends, and practices from associations and organizations representing carriers and shippers, as well as government actions pertaining to these companies and groups.

Carriers-shippers

Schneider National goes
the distance with Nestlé
Jul 17, 2008 9:14 AM

Schneider National has been selected as a top intermodal provider for Nestlé USA....

Jim Palmer Trucking files
for Chapter 11 protection
Jul 15, 2008 9:05 AM

Refrigerated carrier Jim Palmer Trucking and its two subsidiaries, Jim Palmer Equipment and Jim Palmer Equipment II, have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in United States Bankruptcy Court....

Schwan’s delivers success
via the propane fuel route
Jul 9, 2008 9:40 AM

By using cheaper, cleaner-burning propane to fuel its fleet of delivery trucks, Schwan’s Home Service has reduced America’s consumption of gas/diesel by 31 million gallons a year....

Roadcheck finds low
out-of-service rate
Jul 2, 2008 9:54 AM

Despite concerns that a weakening economy, combined with ever-increasing fuel prices, would push safety to the bottom of the list for commercial fleets, vehicle safety inspections carried out on North America’s roadways found the lowest rate of out-of-service vehicles—23.9%—in two decades....

Pizzas for patriots: DHL
helps serve holiday salute
Jun 30, 2008 12:56 PM

DHL, with the support of a local Chicago-area business and community members, will deliver thousands of freshly frozen pizzas to United States servicemen and women serving throughout Iraq in time for July 4th Independence Day celebrations....

FFEX to charge shippers
to offset its higher costs
Jun 25, 2008 9:47 AM

Frozen Food Express Industries Inc. and FFE Transportation Services announced that the company will implement a charge to its shippers for the rapidly rising cost of refrigeration necessary in the transportation of temperature-controlled products....

Sargento salutes Perron
for moving its cheese
Jun 6, 2008 8:39 AM

Sargento Cheese has presented the 2007 Core Carrier Award to Timon Perron Trucking....

DRS gets $16.2 million
container order from Army
Jun 2, 2008 10:58 AM

DRS Technologies Inc. has received a $16.2 million order to provide Multi-Temperature Refrigeration Container System (MTRCS) units to the United States Army’s Natick Soldier Systems Center at Natick MA....

It’s ‘fuel’ speed ahead
for Dynamic synfuels plant
Jul 17, 2008 9:21 AM

Tyson Foods and Syntroleum Corporation have given final approval for plans to build and fund Dynamic Fuels’ first renewable synthetic fuels facility in Geismar LA....

Smithfield companies receive GEEA awards
Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Smithfield Foods and two of its Smithfield Packing operating companies have earned honors from the state of Virginia's 12th annual Governor's Environmental...

Poultry Processors

Hain acquires Pilgrim's turkey operations
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM

New Oxford Foods LLC, has acquired Pilgrim's Pride Corp.'s turkey production facility and distribution center in New Oxford PA...

Pilgrim’s Pride downsizes
U.S. chicken operations
Mar 14, 2008 9:15 AM

Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation will close a chicken processing complex and six of its 13 distribution centers in the United States in response to the crisis facing the U.S. chicken industry from soaring feed-ingredient costs resulting from corn-based ethanol production....

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