Strick Wins TTMA Plant Safety…
The Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association (TTMA) announced Strick Trailers, Monroe, Indiana, the winner in the Trailer Manufacturing Plant in Category B in the 2018 TTMA Plant Sa...
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Great Dane’s Jonesboro Manufacturing Facility…
NTDA member Great Dane announced that its manufacturing facility in Jonesboro, Arkansas has won the 2018 Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association’s (TTMA) Plant Safety Contest for...
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Employee Costs up Slightly
Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 0.7 percent, seasonally adjusted, for the 3-month period ending in March 2019, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today....
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College Grads Overestimate Their First…
In a new study by LendEDU, it found that new college graduates overestimate the salary of their first full-time job by about $1,000 a month. This has obvious implications for stude...
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ACT Research Says Trailer Orders…
U.S. trailer order volume came in below previous year volume for the fourth straight month in March, but OEMs still booked nearly 16,000 net orders during the month, according to t...
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Amazon to Spend at Least…
Brian Olsavsky, CFO of Amazon, said during Amazon’s recent quarterly earnings call that the company intends to take all of the company’s standard Prime Two-day Shipping...
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Q1 GDP Growth Comes in…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2019, according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of...
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FTR’s Shippers Conditions Index for…
With a near neutral reading of 0.6, February is the fifth consecutive month that the FTR Shippers Conditions Index (SCI) has been in positive territory. Forecasts are for the shipp...
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Utility’s Marion, VA Plant Receives…
Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company, a leading manufacturer of refrigerated trailers and dry freight vans, flatbeds, and Tautliner curtainsided trailers, announced that employees...
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