Sentences with phrase «own fleet»

Working in collaboration with Workhorse Group, the goal of the fleet is to run with zero emissions.

We have the very largest fleet [of any Asian airline] and we are confident about the future,» he said.

Or maybe a combination of both — a manageable number of drivers and size of your owned fleet with a stable of contract drivers to call on when you get more contracts than you can handle.

One month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Combined Fleet, determined that the US carrier fleet needed to be destroyed.

That's on top of already announced projects like a fleet of self - driving cars.

With the Vichy French fleet destroyed at Mers - el - Kébir, and the German Navy's surface ships blockaded like they were in WWI, Italy had to go it alone.

«Outsourcing to a trucking firm would allow UPS to enter into the final - mile business without committing its own capital up front to expand its fleet or acquire end - of - line, final - mile infrastructure such as terminals,» R.W. Baird analyst Ben Hartford said.

Google has similar classroom software, and it's easier to manage a fleet of Chromebooks.

And bucking the trend in a retail industry where many rivals are paring their store fleets, Walmart said it plans to open a few more stores: it expect to open fewer than 15 SuperCenters in the U.S. next year, a small uptick to be sure, but additional physical facilities to support its roughly $ 15 billion a year e-commerce business.

Wednesday: Boeing & Biogen Boeing: In the past, this company has been deemed a loser on suspicions that airlines won't upgrade their fleets for fuel efficient planes now that the price of oil is so low.

UPS, for example, has a fleet of electric trucks, which work well for some of its shorter routes, he said.

He's betting that as companies shift from hiring service providers to fly drones for them to bringing drones in - house, they will need help with managing their fleets, logistics and regulations.

With the startup only operating four buses total, that's 25 % of the Leap fleet.

We are also investing in this field ourselves: one of our airlines, Virgin Australia, is working in partnership with Dynamotive Energy Systems and Renewable Oil to develop an alternative jet fuel that will enable our global aircraft fleet to transition to clean energy.

Five years from now, Zimmer foresees a fully autonomous fleet of cars providing most Lyft rides.

No matter what kind of transport business you're in or whether your fleet consists of taxi cabs, bicycles, or 18 - wheelers, safety for drivers, passengers, other drivers, and your load is of utmost concern.

YouTube hasn't just been a place to upload amateur videos for some time now — currently the platform boasts a fleet of wildly profitable multi-channel networks that could very well become the film studios of the future.

Though headquarters balked, Tesla in China was soon encouraging fleet sales orders of 100 or more cars from car - rental agencies and institutions, to jump - start demand.

Lyft announced a partnership earlier this year with GM to test a fleet of self - driving vehicles on public roads.

After light skirmishes, the fleets found each other on the morning of May 7.

If the program is successful it could lead to the conversion of about 1,500 trucks, about 66 percent of UPS New York City fleet.

Southwest has said it planned to complete ultrasonic inspections on all fan blades on the some 700 planes in its fleet with the CFM56 - 7B engines, the model involved in last month's blowout, over the next two weeks, meeting the FAA's August deadline by mid-May.

The model is similar to how the trucking business functions, where operators need to track the vehicles» locations, keep drivers» training up to date and optimize fleet use.

Local Motion has spent the last few years (initially out of Lemnos Labs, the hardware incubator) developing a small module — a box — that essentially eliminates the need for keys in fleets of cars.

The company now operates in 10 cities, has a fleet of 2,000 cars and 300,000 users, and has grown revenue to more than $ 20 million.

In addition to keyless entry, the module also mines the car's data, looking at things like speed patterns, energy consumption, and other information that would help the fleet managers better train their drivers, and understand how to optimize the system.

Google, for instance, uses Local Motion to manage its fleet.

The partnership should help Macy's further leverage its store fleet, which includes roughly 40 Bloomingdale's locations, he said.

It starts with building up a revenue stream using SpaceX's current fleet of reusable Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft.

FOURTEEN years ago, Karratha locals Sean and Lisa Clarke had ambitions to establish a vehicle hire business with a fleet of about 50 vehicles.

As disclosed in the hearing, the Pentagon estimates it will cost an additional $ 16 billion to modernize the existing fleet of F - 35s, through 2024.

UPS said in early November the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority will provide $ 500,000 to develop a system for converting UPS's New York fleet from diesel to electric.

Despite their losses at Midway, the Japanese carrier fleet — and the Imperial Imperial Navy as a whole — was still a major threat.

The overhaul could be a boon for aircraft suppliers, like Boeing Co. and General Electric Co., because airlines need to upgrade their fleets, too.

Jersey Standard photographers cover certain routine assignments such as official dinners and tanker launchings, but for the most part they work on «picture essays» — a detailed coverage of the Gloucester fishing fleet, for example, or lumbering in the Northwest, or river transportation.

For example, the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach in southern California in July approved a plan to replace their current fleets of mostly diesel trucks with zero - or near zero - emissions vehicles by 2030.

It's also worth noting that Windows has had excellent classroom and fleet management tools for years.

The corporate rate cut would give U.S. transportation companies of all sizes more money to upgrade their fleets with fuel - efficient vehicles.

It's also a natural deep water port and houses the largest naval fleet in the world, as well as the only major submarine and ship building yards in the U.S.. On top of that, it's becoming a center for the biotech industry and has a growing startup scene.

The lawsuit also claims Southwest Airlines «placed profits and business over the safety of its customers» by not removing or warning passengers about the «dangerous engine» on its Boeing 700 - 737 fleet.

It also launched a fleet in San Francisco in January, a month after its initial rollout was halted by the city.

Throughout history, the nations of the world have built and sent massive fleets to do battle with one another to take control of swathes of the oceans.

Actual fleet counts may vary from the forecast due to timing of aircraft removed from service, timing of aircraft transitioned into service and timing of new aircraft deliveries.

You can operate the limo yourself, and your fleet of one limousine will be relatively easy to maintain.

The improvement in Q1 2018 pre-tax income from Q1 2017 was primarily due to SkyWest's ongoing fleet transition.

Tesla's fleet of highly sought - after vehicles — consisting of the Model X, Model S, and the recently released Model 3 — was there too, of course.

Industries that rely heavily on fuel, such as shipping companies, airlines, vehicle fleet operators and other transportation companies, are seeing rising costs, which eventually will be passed on to consumers.

«It's a meaningful amount of additional cash that we'll put to work buying more airplanes, modernizing our fleet sooner,» said Southwest Airlines Co..

The Waymo fleet of self - driving cars has driven three million autonomous miles and simulated over one billion miles.

Getting rid of its own fleet will help Google cut costs as it makes money by taking a small commission of total purchase prices.