Trucking News for February 2009

Trucking in the News (15 articles)

• Milwaukee's best: Wisconsin brews up clean diesel funding workshop
  Wisconsin truckers trying to keep pace with ever-changing diesel and idling regulations may want to attend a workshop next week, Feb. 26, in Milwaukee....
  Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 10:30pm
• Kansas Guard partners with Iraqi Trucking company -- U.S. National Guard Bureau
  
  Kansas Guard partners with Iraqi Trucking company U.S. National Guard Bureau (press release), VA - By 3rd Sustainment Command Public Affairs Al-Ghezy Trucking and General Contracting Company owner Jameel Jabir discusses hauling schedules with 287th ...
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  Date: Wed, Feb 18, 2009 3:20pm
• Trucking Stocks: Proceed with Caution -- BusinessWeek
  
  Trucking Stocks: Proceed with Caution BusinessWeek - Well, that's how I felt when I noticed that the Standard & Poor's 1500 Trucking index's relative strength ranking only recently declined after having ...
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  Date: Wed, Feb 18, 2009 5:15am
• Help keeps on trucking -- Nowra South Coast Register
  
  Help keeps on trucking Nowra South Coast Register, Australia - TWO truckloads of goods for the victims of the Victorian Bushfire left the region on Friday. The trucks were packed full of quality household goods for the ...
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  Date: Sun, Feb 15, 2009 10:58pm
• TRG Goes Trucking at Daytona -- Grand-Am
  

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  TRG Goes Trucking at Daytona Grand-Am, FL - Fitzpatrick finished fourth in Friday night'sseason opening NASCAR Camping World Truck Series NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway ...

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  Date: Sat, Feb 14, 2009 3:59pm

Jobs in Trucking (13 articles)

• Veteran Trucking Company John R Trucking Discovers New Life with Prophesy DispatchSeries
  Single Point Data Entry Nets Better Efficiency and Customer Service for Seasoned Team...
  Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 6:55pm
• Scandlines cuts 400 jobs
  Scandlines, a leading Baltic ferry freight line, confirmed it will lay off 400 of its 2,400 employees amid a deepening slump in cargo volumes that is forcing a radical restructuring in European short sea shipping....
  Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 4:04pm
• 300 laid off in Ravenswood discuss work options, get no guarantees
  RIPLEY -- About 300 Century Aluminum workers met with representatives from several state agencies, a few trucking companies and some technical colleges Thurs......
  Date: Fri, Feb 20, 2009 2:04am
• Kagen: Stimulus Package will Create 70,000 Wisconsin Jobs
  Congressman Steve Kagen outlined how this stimulus package will help bring back our state's economy, including creating 8,000 jobs in his 8th Congressional District. Updated throughout....
  Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2009 7:31pm
• UPDATE 1-YRC finalizes credit facility amendment with banks
  DETROIT, Feb 12 (Reuters) -- The largest U.S. trucking company, YRC Worldwide Inc, said on Thursday that it has finalized an amendment with its lenders on its credit facilities....
  Date: Thu, Feb 12, 2009 9:59pm

Owner Operator Jobs in Trucking (5 articles)

• (AFX UK Focus) 2009-02-26 12:39 UPDATE 3-Centrica to add 1,500 jobs, operating profit flat
  By Philip Waller...
  Date: Thu, Feb 26, 2009 12:44pm
• (AFX UK Focus) 2009-02-26 08:50 UPDATE 2-Centrica FY opg profit down 0.4 pct, creating jobs
  By Philip Waller...
  Date: Thu, Feb 26, 2009 9:14am
• City losing 275 jobs as plant closes
  GREAT BEND -- Great Bend Packing Co. announced Tuesday its plant will close in July, eliminating 275 ......
  Date: Wed, Feb 18, 2009 5:01am
• Another month, another sales disaster
  Sales at leading chain stores were caught in a deep freeze in January as mounting concerns about job security kept more shoppers away from the mall....
  Date: Thu, Feb 5, 2009 1:29pm
• Freight group faces strike ballot
  Union leaders urge staff at freight company EWS to vote for strike action over plans to cut jobs....
  Date: Thu, Feb 5, 2009 10:53am

Truck Drivers News (3 articles)

• Trucker fight stalls traffic
  

  Road rage led to traffic congestion near Dryden after two transport-truck drivers stopped for a highway fistfight.

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  Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 9:37am
• War on rogue truckers
  

  TRAFFIC police are cracking down on foreign lorry drivers using dangerous scams to get round our road laws, sometimes with fatal consequences.

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  Date: Mon, Feb 23, 2009 12:46am
• Truckers strike back, torch Meghalaya bus
  

  Shillong, Feb. 15: Truckers and their supporters set ablaze a Meghalaya Transport Corporation bus this morning at Shallang's coal belt area in West Khasi Hills district, 180km from here, prompting police to ...

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  Date: Sun, Feb 15, 2009 9:56pm

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