TOLEDO, OH (TruckingNewsNow.com) — The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) report stating verdicts against trucking companies in excess of $10M, otherwise known as “nuclear verdicts,” are hurting the trucking industry is wrong. The non-profit trucking safety organization “ATAA” says bad trucking companies need to be penalized — and that so called “nuclear verdicts” are only returned by jurors when trucking
Read moreMIAMI, FL (TruckingNewsNow.com) — Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE:R), a leader in commercial fleet management, dedicated transportation, and supply chain solutions, today announced that it was honored with the Corporation of the Year Award, presented by international media company Three6Zero, during this year’s Automotive Global Awards North America, held in Detroit, Mich. The awards are designed to celebrate achievement, creativity, knowledge, and
Read moreACWORTH, GA (TruckingNewsNow.com) — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered an Acworth, Georgia-based trucking company, Daya Trucking, LLC, USDOT No. 3020203, to immediately cease all interstate and intrastate operations after investigators found the company to pose an imminent hazard to public safety. Daya Trucking, which operates 39 trucks hauling general freight, was served
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PLANO, TX (TruckingNewsNow.com) — NFI, a leading supply chain solutions provider, donated supply chain engineering services for North Texas Food Bank’s (NTFB) new distribution center, “The Perot Family Campus,” in Plano, Texas. With deep expertise in logistics within the food and beverage vertical, NFI evaluated plans for NTFB’s new operation and developed solutions to identify efficiencies and optimize the distribution center’s
Read moreJACKSONVILLE, FL (TruckingNewsNow.com) — Landstar’s Mutual Understanding of Safety Together, or M.U.S.T. program, brings Landstar agents and safety team members together with customers in a joint effort to get freight delivered safely, on-time and damage-free. M.U.S.T. is designed to support customers by sharing Landstar’s safety-first culture, while opening important lines of communication about the many safety related topics within the
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