First Rick Austin Memorial Dispatcher of the Year Award presented
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Linda Valliere has been named the first-ever winner of the Rick Austin Memorial Dispatcher of the Year Award. The Praxair dispatcher has been with the company for 40 years in various roles. She has a legendary… ...Read the rest of this storySpot Rates Soar as Load Volume Jumps 27%
Spot truckload rates jumped sharply during the week ending June 9 as the number of loads on DAT load boards increased 27% while truck posts fell 0.4%. Higher demand for capacity during a week that included the annual Roadcheck inspection blitz helped drive up rates. ...Read the rest of this storyThree private fleet drivers inducted to Hall of Fame
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Three professional drivers with a combined 16 million kilometers of accident-free driving were inducted into the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada's Hall of Fame. David Armstrong, who works for CPC Logistics in the John Deere… ...Read the rest of this storyMillennial investors were piling into AT&T in anticipation its big merger with Time Warner would get approved (T)
Data from the free-trading app Robinhood, popular amongst millennials, showed 7,278 investors bought AT&T shares using the app over the past week. It is unclear as to what specific days the transactions occurred, so it is possible the bulk of the purchases came after the deal's approval was announced.
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Who’s that selling steaks off a truck? It’s Amazon
It was sold by Amazon, which already sells just about anything online but now also hawks discounted seafood, Panini presses and more from what it calls the Treasure Truck. Amazon has also used the trucks to try to bring people into Whole Foods, the grocery chain it bought last year. The inspiration, says Treasure Truck Director Margot Johnson, was the ice cream truck, another store on wheels that pops up unexpectedly.


