Industry Briefs

Pilot offering breakfast, soup bars

| November 28, 2012

Pilot and Flying J locations are now serving a breakfast buffet featuring home-style options like biscuits, sausage gravy, southwest egg scramble, cinnamon apples and breakfast pizza. A soup bar will also be available, serving classics ...

FleetPride acquires MI facility

| September 14, 2012

FleetPride, Inc., a heavy-duty truck and trailer parts retailer, has announced the acquisition of the assets of Great Lakes Truck & Trailer. The 15,300 square-foot facility is located in Westland, Mich., and marks FleetPride’s ninth ...

Polar Service Center moves

| September 14, 2012

Polar Service  has moved to a new location in Rosemount, Minn., with eight service bays, 3,800 square-feet of parts inventory and parking for 75 trailers. The location is ASME National Board R-stamp certified and provides ...

Bosselman opens shop in AZ

| July 31, 2012

Bosselman Boss Truck Shops Inc. has opened a new location in Bellemont, Ariz., at I-40 Exit 185. This Boss Shop is located adjacent to the Pilot Travel Plaza and is a UNI-MAXX Truck Care network ...

Idle Free wins state award

| July 26, 2012

Idle Free Systems is featured in a video produced by the Wisconsin State Energy Office, highlighting companies which have experienced growth and success through the funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Under the 2009 ...

New York dealership relocates

| July 25, 2012

Kenworth of Buffalo has relocated its Syracuse dealership to a larger facility located at Interstate 90 (New York Thruway) Exit 35, accessible to I-81, State Routes 11 and 481, and the Syracuse airport. The dealership features ...

Sammons Trucking operator found

| July 23, 2012

UPDATE 7/24: Place has been located.    James Place, pictured below with his Sammons Trucking brown Kenworth T660, truck no. 1105 in the fleet, has been missing since Friday, according to the company -- visit the Sammons ...

Expert to outline workplace issues

| July 23, 2012

R. Eddie Wayland, an employment law expert and general counsel for the Truckload Carriers Association, will discuss “Employment law potholes on the road ahead,” on Wednesday, Aug. 22, during the first day of the Commercial ...

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