Sentences with phrase «by truck companies»

Because most Class A driver's license holders are hired by truck companies, the truck driving school training is a common requirement, maybe not of the state but by the industry.

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Peloton predicts that platooning would save companies money by improving trucks» fuel efficiency while also cutting down on emissions.

The white seal coat, made by a company called GuardTop, is sprayed on roads by a truck.

Hydrogen truck startup Nikola Motor has hit Tesla (tsla) with a $ 2 billion patent infringement lawsuit that accuses the company run by CEO Elon Musk of stealing certain aspects of its semi truck design.

The band did promise to incorporate the company's logo into the video and fulfilled the obligation by using a State Farm toy truck to start the clip's four - minute chain reaction.

The company accuses him of downloading 14,000 confidential files before quitting and starting Otto, the self - driving truck company bought by Travis Kalanick's Uber last year.

The company, based in Fullerton, California, retrofits large diesel - powered vehicles such as garbage trucks and off - road construction equipment with a system that cuts smog - causing emissions by as much as 90 percent.

The company also owns the whole service chain: Products are delivered in Pirch trucks, installed and serviced by Pirch technicians, and covered by a Pirch warranty.

The companies say the pipeline would carry Bakken shale oil more cheaply and safely from North Dakota to Illinois en route to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries than it could be shipped by railroad or tanker trucks.

The company's unmarked delivery trucks begin rolling out at midnight to ensure the medications make it to their destination by morning.

Emeco Holdings has diversified its business outside the mining sector by purchasing truck and trailer rental company Rentco, which was founded in 1994 by Perth brothers Bob and John Shier, in a structured deal worth at least $ 52 million.

By 2000, annual sales at the company — which specializes in what is called asset - management software, which helps municipalities and corporations manage items such as dump trucks and sewer lines — reached $ 90 million.

A Bibra Lake - based transport company has been fined $ 30,000 in relation to a workplace incident where a mechanic had his legs crushed under the wheels of a truck trailer driven by one of the directors of the company.

The two companies are sparring over Google's allegation that Levandowski stole gigabytes worth of intellectual property when he quit to start self - driving truck company Otto in 2016, which was soon after acquired by Uber.

If you don't know the name Lenco, you know the Pittsfield, Massachusetts - based company's signature vehicle — an armored truck used by police, the military, and government officials called the BearCat.

Then came the marketing ideas; the company's product tag got a redesign — as did its brochures, followed by its fleet of trucks.

Tesla Semi, the new electric heavy - duty truck unveiled Thursday night by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has at least two companies interested in buying the product, including J.B. Hunt Transport Services.

While the trucks are autonomous, the company says they will be manned by human drivers (since, after all, someone has to unload the beer once it reaches its destination).

Shouldn't the next autonomous truck company be cofounded by technologists and truck drivers?

Former Uber and Waymo engineer Anthony Levandowski allegedly stole more than 14,000 files before he left Waymo and started the self - driving truck company that is Otto, which was almost immediately acquired by Uber.

This was followed by an announcement made by a global food and service distribution company, Sysco Corporation, who said they have purchased 50Tesla Semi trucks as part of a company commitment to reduce environmental impact for its operations.

Anthony Levandowski, shown here during a briefing at a garage owned by his self - driving truck company Otto, which Uber bought in 2016.

Otto, a self - driving truck company bought by Uber for $ 670 million, is using sensor technology that is now part of a lawsuit brought against Uber by Alphabet - owned Waymo.

The captains, who will remain full - time truck drivers with their various ATA member companies, will speak candidly about the life of an American truck driver, the important role trucking plays in the delivery of critical goods and the safety - first mentality held by all professional truck drivers.

Toyota Motor Corp., which plans to build a new $ 1.6 billion factory in Alabama with Mazda Motor Corp., said the administration's decision will «adversely impact» auto companies by raising costs and prices of cars and trucks sold in the U.S.. That's even as more than 90 percent of the steel Asia's biggest carmaker needs in the U.S. is from the country.

Other high - profile companies such as UPS, UAE - based Bee'ah and Norway's Postal Service, among many smaller operations, have committed to reducing their operations environmental impact by either replacing or augmenting their fleet with Tesla Semi trucks.

The CEO of Navistar issued his electric challenge early this year, declaring that by 2025 his company would have more electric trucks on the road than Tesla (Navistar has 11 % of the Class 8 truck market and is partially owned by Volkswagen).

Otto is a self - driving truck company started by Google veterans and bought by Uber last year.

Anthony Levandowski, a former Google employee who founded the now Uber - owned self - driving truck company Otto, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to protect himself from self - incrimination Wednesday, according to a transcript of the private court hearing reviewed Thursday by USA TODAY.

Budweiser beer maker Anheuser - Busch said on Thursday it reserved up to 800 hydrogen - fueled semi-trucks from Nikola Motor Company as part of plans to convert its dedicated long - haul fleet to renewable powered trucks by 2025.

«Whether it is by truck or rail, we can deliver,» the company says.

The decision to bring in produce by rail has been an important distinction for the companies, mainly because it allows them to avoid many of the supply issues that can come with trucks.

Most fish are supplied by the company's 40 trucks, but the Caribbean and other out - of - state locations are served by overnight air.

The company is also converting its truck fleet from diesel fuel to more environmentally friendly compressed natural gas and is aiming to reduce its landfill - bound waste by 50 percent in the next five years.

On the Rail Line The decision to bring in produce by rail has been an important distinction for the companies, mainly because it allows them to avoid many of the supply issues that can come with trucks.

However, one catering company and food truck is pushing the envelope by serving authentic Caribbean / Bahamian dishes like Conch Fritters, Conch Salad and Fried «Cracked» Conch.

The biodiesel fuels the family cars and company trucks, and the glycerin by - product is purified and put in to Further products.

Shamrock Foods Company — parent company of Shamrock Farms and Shamrock Foods — was founded by Norman's father, W.T. McClelland, in Tucson, Ariz., in 1922 with a Model T truck and 2Company — parent company of Shamrock Farms and Shamrock Foods — was founded by Norman's father, W.T. McClelland, in Tucson, Ariz., in 1922 with a Model T truck and 2company of Shamrock Farms and Shamrock Foods — was founded by Norman's father, W.T. McClelland, in Tucson, Ariz., in 1922 with a Model T truck and 20 cows.

From the mill, our fabric is trucked by a local shipping company to our sewing facility, which is right in Massachussetts and owned by a single dad.

But the Government in a statement signed the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, said that contrary to the information being circulated in the social media that the street hawker was hit by a BRT bus, it was a truck belonging to a soft drink company that unfortunately hit the boy.

Anthony Tartaro, who bought the century - old building for $ 65,000 in June 2002, was loading possessions from the building onto a pickup truck when a demolition company owner stopped by to give him a quote.

Haulage drivers at the Tema Port have embarked on an indefinite sit - down strike over a new directive by the Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority (GPHA), requesting them to send their trucks for further testing at a private company.

Levandowski founded a self - driving truck company that was bought by Uber in 2016 (and is now the focus of an intellectual property lawsuit between Uber and Google robocar successor Waymo), so he knows a thing or two about artificial intelligence.

The company said the updated figure, which BP shared with the Coast Guard and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, includes oil collected by vacuum trucks and an absorbent boom.

It makes sense to anticipate layoffs, by living and working in a place like the Boston area or the San Francisco Bay area with a lot of small companies, so «if you have to go to another company, you can do it without calling the moving trucks,» Lowe advises.

For example, in the newsletter sent yesterday by Good Earth Power, the company stated that trucks and chip trailers needed to complete the contract «have been very hard to come by in Northern Arizona,» so the company recently had to create its own transport capacity through Good Earth Trucking Ltd..

This is partially explained by increases in truck share for all four, however other companies such as Mazda and Kia also had large increases in truck share while improving overall fuel economy.

In the article, Katz details two very different nonprofit social enterprise businesses helped by seed funding from Kessler Foundation — Hudson Community Enterprises, a document management company in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Destination Desserts, a food truck enterprise in St. Louis, Missouri.

Additionally, the company would like to better control its fuel expenditures by having trucks rest during rush hour traffic.

General Motors +21 %, or +43 % for New GM (Buick - Cadillac - Chevrolet - GMC) Spurred by fleet sales and incentive spending, General Motors regained the top spot in the U.S. auto market in March — although, in a statistic that's ripe with foreshadowing, the company actually sold more cars and trucks in China than in the USA.