Polar Wins Safety Award
Polar Tank Trailer was recognized for excellence in workplace safety and health at the 2021 Virtual Minnesota Safety and Health Conference, held May 4-5. Polar Tank Trailer was one of 221 employers honored through the…
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Report Raises Milk Production Outlook
The USDA’s latest World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, released in June, raised 2021-22 milk production forecasts due to higher cow numbers, with the outlook for prices mixed. For 2021, the USDA forecasts milk…
Milk Sector Also Needs More Drivers
Coming soon to an industry near you (or already here): a truck-driver shortage. There’s currently a nationwide deficit of both long-haul and short-run truck drivers, and it will impact the transit of bulk milk, feed…
Dairy Sector Thriving On Exports
A large portion of U.S. dairy is exported and, despite significant disruptions in trade last year, the United States exported nearly 2.4 million metric tons of dairy goods – a record-setting mark, according to data released…
Truck demand robust, data show
With new Class 8 truck orders from April having essentially filled the backlog for the remainder of 2021 in North America, and with 2022 order books not yet opened, it’s no surprise that order numbers…
Milk Production Continues To Drop
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service shows milk production continues to decline. After many years of depressed prices, some dairy farmers faced an extremely tough year in 2020 with a global…
LSP, Suttles Win NTTC Safety Awards
National Tank Truck Carriers (NTTC), a trade association for tank-truck transporters, manufacturers and related companies recently released the names of the winners of its annual safety awards. LSP Transport of Bryan, Texas, won in the…
Amazon Wants More Tractor-Trailers
Amazon is planning to launch an “Amazon Freight Partners” program to help train delivery upstarts that would, in turn, join Amazon’s fleet of exclusive delivery partners, per a new report from The Information. The e-commerce…
Second Pay Raise At Carbon Express
Carbon Express, a Wharton, N.J.-based bulk chemical transporter, has raised driver pay a second time this year, company officials said in a press release. The company is also making profit-sharing distributions to drivers. Steve Rush…
Dry-bulk Transporters Optimistic
Hope springs eternal in dry bulk shipping — the largest shipping market in the world by volume. Over the past decade, each year has started out with bullish proclamations on why the market would finally…
