Transportation Star shareholders approve sale October 1, 2000 KELOWNA, B.C. - The shareholders of Western Star Trucks Holdings have approved the $670-million sale of the company to Freightliner LLC. DaimlerChrysler, Freightliner's parent company, had made an off...
Transportation Quebec union threatens showdown October 1, 2000 MONTREAL, Que. - Word is emerging that the union representing 1,200 intermodal owner/operators, brokers and drivers in Montreal is preparing to take drastic measures to ink a collective agreement.Repr...
Transportation DaimlerChrysler to buy Detroit Diesel August 1, 2000 DETROIT, Mich. - Daimler- Chrysler announced plans to buy all remaining shares in Detroit Diesel Corporation (DDC) only hours after its Freightliner LLC subsidiary bought Western Star Trucks.While Dai...
Transportation Link links food bank shipments May 1, 2000 MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Link Logistics has created a program to help the Canadian Association of Food Banks (CAFB) distribute food to the 190 food banks under the organization's umbrella.Under the program...
Transportation Feeding the need January 1, 2000 TORONTO, Ont. - Canadians are going hungry and Aynsley Morris has 231 pallets of free Kraft Dinner. She just has to get the food bank staple to them.While the donated food is sitting in a Montreal war...
Transportation U.S. creates new trucking agency January 1, 2000 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. has created a new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration - a trucking equivalent to the Federal Aviation Administration governing airlines - that promises to be far fr...
