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IN PICTURES: Rodéo Du Camion
NOTRE-DAME-DU-NORD, QC - The Rodeo du Camion remains a sweet, unmatched madness if you like hairy trucks and ferociously competitive racing. The 36th edition of the Rodeo took over the little town of Notre-Dame-du-Nord, Quebec for the last weekend of July, swelling the population 20 times over. With sunny Lake Temiskaming in the background, both bobtail and loaded trucks raced up a 12% grade in two days of elimination runs. They compete in three horsepower classes plus what's called the Free-for-All competition in which any spec' goes. As you might imagine, the wick is turned way up for those races.
TransForce buys XPO Logistics’ TL business for US $558M
MONTREAL, QC -- TransForce has purchased XPO Logistics' truckload business for US $558 million in cash. After XPO bought Con-way Inc. a year ago, Con-way Truckload's operations appeared to many observers to be an odd fit for XPO, which bills itself as the second largest freight brokerage provider in the world. In February, the Wall Street Journal reported that after evaluating and rejecting bids from three trucking companies, XPO would instead hold onto the unit. "I think we can improve it by integrating it and bringing it lots of new customers from our other service lines," CEO Bradley Jacobs told a WSJ reporter.
