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Transport Topics business coverage focuses on the financial, economic, and commercial aspects of the modern freight business. Looking at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic forces shaping bottom lines, the news in this category includes labor news, jobs reports, tonnage and sales indicators, operations analysis, money and banking, mergers, acquisitions, e-commerce, bankruptcy, insurance issues, and more.

Business, Logistics

George’s Taps Tyson Foods Executive Bryan McDuffie to Head Transportation Unit

Bryan McDuffie, a top transportation executive at Tyson Foods, has been named vice president of transportation at George’s Inc., one of the nation’s largest privately owned poultry processing firms.

Daniel P. Bearth | Staff Writer
September 5, 2017
Business, Logistics

C.H. Robinson Purchases Canadian Customs Broker, Freight Forwarder

C.H. Robinson has acquired Montreal-based Milgram & Co. for about $50 million, enhancing the U.S. company’s customs brokerage and freight forwarding options in Canada.

Ari Ashe | Staff Reporter
September 5, 2017
Business, Technology, Logistics, Autonomous, TCA

Robots Intended to Reduce Cost of ‘Last-Mile’ Deliveries

Robby Technologies is one of three companies that have reached out to the city of Mountain View, Calif., for permission to test robots there.

John Orr | Palo Alto (Calif.) Daily News
September 5, 2017
Business, Technology, Equipment

Anderson-DuBose Supports Sustainability With Electric Yard Truck

Orange EV announced one of its all-electric Class 8 yard trucks is now operating at The Anderson-DuBose Co. to move trailers used in its McDonald’s distribution network.

September 5, 2017
Business, Logistics

DTNA Begins Construction of New Logistics Facility at Truck Plant

Roger Gilroy | Senior Reporter
September 5, 2017
Business, Logistics

Ingram Micro Hits 1.3 Million Orders for The Beard Club

Ingram Micro Commerce & Fulfillment, a business unit of Ingram Micro Inc., has announced the fulfillment of 1.3 million orders for The Beard Club, a provider of men’s subscription grooming products.

September 5, 2017
Business, Equipment

Paccar Parts Reaches Milestone With 100th TRP Store

The new store, opened by Kenworth of Louisiana, is located in Alexandria, La., and builds on a network of TRP stores that began in 2013 in Europe, the United Kingdom and in Mexico, according to the Renton, Wash.-based company.

September 5, 2017
Business

Gallagher Bassett Services Acquires National Transportation Adjusters

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that its subsidiary, Gallagher Bassett Services, has acquired National Transportation Adjusters Inc., a company based in Scottsdale, Ariz., that provides claims management for self-insured trucking companies and corporate fleet operators in the United States.

September 5, 2017
Government, Business, Technology, Safety, Logistics, Autonomous, TCA

Commerce Department: Autonomous Vehicle Technology Will Create Winners and Losers in Transport Industries

Workers in the trucking and other industries that move people and goods could find themselves squeezed out of those jobs by the rise of self-driving trucks.

Skip Descant | Government Technology
September 5, 2017
Business, Equipment

SAF-Holland Will Expand Dumas, Ark., Facility

SAF-Holland said it will invest about $4 million in its Dumas, Ark., facility for additional manufacturing and warehousing space, paint line, robotic welding cells and other new technology and equipment as it builds its capacities in axle and suspension systems in the Americas.

September 5, 2017