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Maines Paper & Food Service Reduces Tractor Fleet Repair And Maintenance Costs

Maines first partnered in 2010 with Fleet Advantage to study the feasibility of a paradigm shift from 6- to 8-year full-service truck leases to the EXchangeIT operating lease model using 4-year lifecycles combined with contract maintenance.

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C.A.T. Partners With GAIN Clean Fuel

C.A.T., formerly known as Canadian American Transportation C.A.T. Inc., recently signed an agreement with Ryder for the lease of 100 sleeper tractors operating on CNG, nearly a third of C.A.T.’s fleet of 325 tractors.

Plug Power To Offer Hydrogen Fuel To U.S. Customers

Plug Power will offer Praxair liquid hydrogen to its customers throughout the U.S. who are using the company’s GenKey hydrogen fuel cell solution.

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IFDA Conference Report: Distributors Explain How They Reduced Miles But Sustained Customer Service

International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA)

Sean Jones, senior VP of transportation at Naperville, Ill.-based Eby-Brown and Matthew Granlund, vice president of operations and logistics at Hattiesburg, Miss.-based Merchants Foodservice described how their companies accomplished these goals.

Sean Jones explains Eby-Brown’s rerouting efforts. Matt Granlund of Merchants Foodservice, seated, listens attentively.

C&S Wholesale Grocers To Acquire The Grocers Supply Co.

The acquisition will include Grocers Supply’s warehouse and distribution operations in the Houston, Dallas, and Rio Grande Valley areas.

Blue Apron Opens New Jersey Fulfillment Center; Ingredient/Recipe Service Delivers More Than 1 Million Meals Monthly

N.J. This new fulfillment center, which will begin shipping meals on Dec. 1, 2014, is 10 times larger than the previous fulfillment center.

Welsh Food And Beverage Companies Exhibit At China Food And Hotel Convention

Held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, FHC is a leading international food and drink trade event in China.

Lineage Logistics Expands In Pacific Northwest

With the expansion, Lineage’s presence in the region will total nearly 1.5 million square feet of refrigerated warehousing space across five warehouses located in Seattle, Algona, Tacoma and Centralia.

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Infinity Transportation To Launch Expedited Refrigerated Intermodal Service

Infinity Intermodal

IT's new intermodal operating platform, Infinity Logistics (ITL), is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. Daily operations will be managed from a dedicated location in Kansas City, Mo.

Americold Opens Facility In Heyburn, Idaho

The 160,000-square-foot, temperature-controlled building has capacity for more than 17,000 pallets – 10,000 steel-racked and 7,000 bulk-storage positions.

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Budreck Truck Lines Breaks Ground On Freezer/Cooler Facility In Monee, Ill.

The site was selected as the preferred location for Budreck because of its visibility from I-57, proximity to Monee-Manhattan Road and TIF incentives from the Village of Monee.

From L to R: Tim Johnson, Tom Sauter, Rory Subler, Brad Subler, Chad Silvester, Ken Lattanzi, Doug Brucato, Chris Gary, James Molzahn, Jared Kenyon and Mark Augustyn.

IFDA Conference Report: ‘Warehouse Boot Camp’ Focuses On Workforce Solutions

International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA)

The “boot camp” addressed a variety of supervisor concerns, such as how to recruit, how to train, what performance metrics to measure and how to compensate employees.

At left, Shaun McFaul, Ben E. Keith Co., Angel Garcia, Nicholas & Co., Paul Lodics, Eby-Brown Co. LLC, and Mike Hammond, Red Diamond Inc., field questions about motivating employees.

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