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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company To Recognize Real-Life Hero

Nominate a driver for the North American Highway Hero program before Nov. 30.

QFR Zone

Tippmann Group / Interstate Warehousing

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Great Dane Resumes Production At Its Jonesboro, AR, Plant

Great Dane Trailers Inc.

Employees recalled thanks to growing dry freight van demand.

Third Party Logistics

Menlo Worldwide Logistics, subsidiary of Con-way Inc.

Preferred Freezer Services Unveils Houston Metro Facility

Preferred Freezer Services (PFS), division of Lineage Logistics

Marks the company’s 27th location worldwide.

Electrification

Frito-Lay All-Electric Delivery Trucks Hit The Streets Of Columbus

Ten electric delivery trucks will ultimately be part of the largest planned fleet of commercial all-electric trucks in North America.

Software Solutions

Chiquita Selects PAR Logistics Management Systems For Cold Chain Control

Chiquita Brands International | Fresh Express

Real-time product monitoring and control system deployed throughout its refrigerated fleet.

Fast Forward to Today: Sobey's Automated Grocery Distribution Center in Canada is Ahead of its Time

The grocery distribution center of the future has arrived—Sobey Inc.’s new automated facility in Canada. At the heart of the DC is a case picking system that can handle 320,000 cases per day.

STORE READY: Products are placed on trays, where they make their way to the selection area to be stored. When a store order comes in, they will be automatically sent to a pallet.

MDS, Greatwide Logistics Are Driven To Success

Food Logistics recognizes fleets for outstanding customer service and environmental conservation.

Mark D. Sandridge (MDS) Inc

Global Standards Improve Supply Chain

The GS1 Item Alignment initiative via the GDSN now includes foodservice.

FRESH APPROACH: GS1 is bringing global standards to meats and produce, as well as providing initiatives to improve product safety and traceability.

Calender and People Updates

It Pays To Collaborate

Getting damage-free products from points A to B on-time and cheaper is a shipper’s dream. Collaborative distribution is making this a reality in the food industry.

THE RIGHT STUFF: The entire warehousing aspect of retailer consolidation, from the time trucks begin arriving in the morning to when the last one leaves, makes it critical that product is properly assembled prior to the first truck entering the loading dock.

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