General Motors will invest $44.5 million to build a logistics optimization center at its Lansing Grand River Assembly plant in Michigan.
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23 May 2013
Net orders for Class 8 trucks totaled just over 23,200 units in April, up 36 percent year-over-year, remaining above 20,000 units for a seventh consecutive month and reaching the second highest volume in 16 months...
21 May 2013
Penske Truck Leasing has opened its new $6 million, 24,000 square foot facility in Phoenix.
21 May 2013
DAF Trucks has selected DB Schenker in Brazil as its logistics service provider.
03 May 2013
North America’s Class 8 truck net orders in April totaled 23,026 units, rising 6 percent from the previous month and increasing 37 percent from April 2012, according to FTR Associates’ preliminary data.
30 Apr 2013
Penske Logistics has been awarded the contract to be the operational manager of the BMW of North America parts distribution center in Nazareth, Pa.
25 Apr 2013
Mullen Group reported its net income in the first quarter of 2013 was C$44.4 million (about US$43.5 million), down 24.5 percent from $57.6 million in the first quarter of 2012.
25 Apr 2013
CAI International reported net income in the first quarter of 2013 was $16.1 million, increasing 11 percent from $14.5 million in the same quarter in the previous year.
18 Apr 2013
More than 5 million commercial trucks crossed the U.S.-Mexican border in 2012, a 4.8 percent increase from 2011 that set a new record. Unfortunately, Troy Ryley says, too many tractor-trailers were headed in one direction — north.
17 Apr 2013
Grup TCB has selected Orbita Ingenieria to automate the truck gates at its TCB – Terminal de Contenidors de Barcelona facility in Spain.
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