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IARW-WFLO Publish Pre-Employment Assessment Template For Refrigerated Warehousing And Logistics Companies

Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA)

Developed by the IARW-WFLO Supply Chain Operations Committee, the assessment provides a brief overview of best practices in pre-employment assessments and contains two sample templates for warehouse and administrative candidates.

U.S. Growers Cold Storage Presents Sam Perricone Memorial Scholarship

Sam Perricone, who passed away in 2011, was one of the founding partners of U.S. Growers.

Featured In Food Logistics: Refrigerated Trailers Get Lighter And Longer Lasting

Trucking firms are generally more conservative when it comes to new equipment purchases right now because other costs – compliance with various regulations, driver and employee costs – are taking precedence.

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Instacart To Launch Grocery Delivery In Boulder, Colo.

The Boulder region would be the 15th market for the San Francisco-based company that developed an on-demand service that allows customers to order groceries from different stores and have those items delivered in some cases in under an hour's time.

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Omnitracs To Acquire XRS Corp.

Omnitracs | Solera Fleet Solutions

Both Omnitracs and XRS have been pioneers in developing fleet management and compliance technology, so the combined company will continue to provide products and services that help fleets stay safe and improve productivity.

Postal Service To Deliver Fresh Food For Amazon

U.S. Postal Service (USPS)

The agency will deliver orders to members of the AmazonFresh online grocery service between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., when postal trucks typically would be idle.

Anheuser-Busch Converts Houston Trucking Fleet To Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles From Ryder

Ryder System, Inc.

The CNG conversion comes as the 2014 football season kicks off one of the company’s busiest shipping periods of the year – with 17 million cases of beer shipped by the Houston fleet during third quarter.

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India Ready To Eat Food Market To Grow 22% Through 2019

The market is anticipated to grow on account of increasing working population, growing per capita disposable income, rising per capita expenditure on prepared food, increasing middle class and affluent consumers.

Port Jersey Logistics’ Facility In Cranbury, N.J. To Become Corporate Headquarters

The new facility will encompass nearly 450,000 square feet of food grade warehousing space – allowing for up to 46,000 pallets to be stored in this location.

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Featured In Food Logistics: Intermodal Rail Grabs A Bigger Share

Class 1 railroads continue to set intermodal volume records while shoveling billions of dollars into new equipment, infrastructure and employees to handle growing projects.

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Latin America Cold Chain Congress To Be Oct. 6 And 7 In Columbia

Smartcool Systems Boosts Compressor Efficiency For Refrigerated Trailer

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