Logistics giant Kuehne+Nagel has moved into a new home base at Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM), making it easier to manage weekly chartered freight flights from Stuttgart, Germany, that began last year. The Birmingham Airport Authority last week held a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the opening of a 53,000-square-foot facility with warehouse space plus administrative offices,…
Truck brokerage giant C.H. Robinson Worldwide laid off around 80 members of its remaining 150 sales representatives in the U.S. on Thursday, according to sources familiar with the cuts. The source said the sales division of the publicly traded brokerage has slashed U.S. sales jobs by around 89% over the past six years as it…
Retail diesel prices measured by the Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration average retail price now have moved higher for three consecutive weeks, but it doesn’t appear to be on the back of higher consumption. The weekly DOE/EIA diesel price, used as the basis for most fuel surcharges, climbed 4.4 cents a gallon Monday to $3.813….
This story originally appeared on Trains.com LAVAL, Quebec — Members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have voted to reauthorize strikes at CPKC and CN, the union announced Saturday. Overall, 89.5% of union members participated in the vote, with 98.6% voting to reauthorize the strike, the union said. At CN, conductors, engineers and yard workers…
A 72-year-old Clermont, Florida, man faces multiple charges, including a felony charge, after authorities say he shot a Walmart delivery drone that he said was flying over his house. Dennis Winn’s mugshot was posted to Facebook by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday. (Photo: Lake County Sheriff’s Office) According to an arrest affidavit, Lake…