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January 17, 2024
How does a long career in law enforcement and passion for hunting turn into an impeccable career as a tank truck driver? Just ask Edward “Ed” Heard, a professional driver specializing in hauling chemicals for Highway Transport.
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Groendyke Transport driver Rodney McNew is one of 24 professional drivers on American Trucking Associations’ newly selected 2024-25 America’s Road Team.
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Nate’s Food, which supplies an interesting combination of “sugar, chicken paws, and jet fuel commodities,” according to the company’s website, recently secured $8 billion in aviation fuel in a “groundbreaking” joint-venture agreement with a “highly regarded” refinery allotment holder, the company reported.
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PSC Group recently acquired the Bayport Rail Terminal (BRT), a 115-acre rail, truck, and container terminal near the Port of Houston, from the US Development Group.
The U.S. Department of Labor recently published a final rule that’s intended to help employers and workers better understand the employee vs. independent-contractor qualifications under the Fair Labor Standards Act—and the trucking industry’s largest trade association vows to work with Congress to defeat the “ill-advised” rule.
Net trailer orders increased “nominally” from November to December, but with a preliminary count of 24,300 units, orders were down by nearly 58% year-over-year, according to a new report from ACT Research.
Construction contractors have a “decidedly mixed” outlook for 2024 as firms predict transitions in demand for projects, the types of challenges they will face, and the technologies—including artificial intelligence—they plan to embrace, according to recent survey results from the Associated General Contractors of America.
Total construction spending increased by 0.4% in November as a pickup in homebuilding and some private nonresidential markets offset a downturn in public spending, according to a recent analysis of federal spending data by the Associated General Contractors of America.
Quantron US, a subsidiary of German cleantech company Quantron AG, is working to drive the “hydrogen revolution” in the U.S. with its fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and “Quantron-as-a-Service” (QaaS), a per-mile platform that provides fleet owners with trucks, fuel, and end-to-end fleet management.