Volvo Trucks North America customer Quality Custom Distribution (QCD), a national food service logistics supplier, will deploy 14 Volvo VNR Electric models in its Southern California last-mile delivery routes. For Volvo Trucks the deal represent the largest single purchasing commitment of electric trucks to date. Volvo Trucks will deliver the… Read more »
Schneider Sees Fuel Efficiency Gains with New Detroit DD15 Gen 5
The enhanced Detroit DD15 Gen 5 engine is helping Schneider (NYSE: SNDR), a premier provider of trucking, intermodal and logistics services achieve fuel efficiency gains and meet sustainability initiatives. Schneider has been working with Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) through development and running Freightliner’s Cascadia equipped with the DD15 Gen… Read more »
Old Dominion drives its 15,000th Freightliner Truck off assembly line
Freightliner Trucks and Old Dominion Freight Line celebrated its longtime partnership at a celebration at Daimler Truck North America’s (DTNA) Cleveland, N.C. truck manufacturing plant. Old Dominion Vice Chairman of the Board and CEO David Congdon was behind the wheel of a new Freightliner Cascadia® for a ceremonial roll off… Read more »
A Classic American partnership
Mack Trucks helps Red Classic meet the demands of a fast-paced expansion. Red Classic — a subsidiary of the largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the United States — has seen very strong growth across its divisions, and Mack Trucks is helping the company meet the equipment and logistics challenges that… Read more »
Lauren Concrete relies on Mack® for power, increased uptime and driver comfort
Ronnie Klatt began Lauren Concrete in 1986 with one derelict plant and four beat up trucks. He slept at the job site and fueled 20-hour shifts with one meal per day. His fifth truck was a Mack®, and from there, with hard work and better equipment, the Austin-based businessman grew… Read more »
Mack is the perfect partner for Memphis-based container drayage leader
Shipping containers fill the yard at Intermodal Cartage Company, with the multicolored steel stacks towering over the heavy-duty Mack® Pinnacles® waiting to carry them to their destinations. Memphis-based IMCG, one of eight businesses operating under the IMC Companies umbrella, has become a leader in container drayage, tapping into more than three decades… Read more »
Jim Dovicsak’s Mack® Granite® MHD gets nothing but admiration from customers
There is a collective sigh of relief when Jim Dovicsak’s Mack® Granite® MHD rumbles toward a construction work site in the Trafford, Pennsylvania, area. That’s because there’s nobody better at repairing and servicing equipment and fleets in the field than Dovicsak’s one-truck, two-man operation. Like a doctor making house calls, Dovicsak can diagnose… Read more »
Boulet Brothers Concrete relies on Mack® trucks to exceed customer expectations
Boulet Brothers Concrete relies on Mack® trucks to exceed customer expectations for time-sensitive concrete-delivery jobs. Hubert Boulet has always had a passion for Mack® trucks, and one of his earliest childhood memories is of a Mack calendar hanging on his bedroom wall. When he was 10 years old, he started working at Boulet… Read more »
Haul in the family with Florida based Jahna Concrete
Concrete, not blood, runs in the veins of the Jahna family, which traces its roots in the concrete business back to 1925. The family’s third generation, experts in operating in Central Florida’s extreme terrain, remains hands-on in the business to this day. Representing the family’s second generation in the concrete… Read more »
Creating a culture is important in any business but for Nebraska Transport Company, it’s a way of life.
Creating a culture is important in any business. For Nebraska Transport Company, it’s a way of life. Now that family culture is leading to company success. When Dick Holliday purchased Nebraska Transport Company in 1973, his first haul was from Scottsbluff to Omaha carrying one refrigerator. NTC’s equipment — all… Read more »
