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• Technology-driven logistics company TransLoop partnered with Luke Grimes of Yellowstone , Hydroviv, and the Jeff Ruby family to deliver and donate ltration systems to East Palestine, Ohio, in the wake of a train derailment.
• Less-than-truckload carrier ABF Freight won the 2022 Excellence in Cargo Claims & Loss Prevention Award (LTL Division) from the American Trucking Associations. ABF is the first LTL carrier to receive this award 10 times and the only carrier to win for three consecutive years. • AFS Logistics announced the winners of its inaugural LTL Carrier of the Year Award, which acknowledges the national, super regional, and regional LTL carriers that best exemplified outstanding performance and service during the previous year: National- Old Dominion Freight Line, Super regional- Southeastern Freight Lines, Regional- Ward Transport & Logistics. • J.B. Hunt Transport Services recently celebrated 84 company drivers for achieving two-plus million safe driving miles. The company awarded the elite group of drivers a total of more than $1.2 million in safe driving bonuses for their career-defining achievements.
• Trailer Bridge and ATS International held a charity golf tournament that raised more than $104,500 for Habitat for Humanity of Puerto Rico, supporting the organization's efforts to create and preserve home ownership opportunities for low-income individuals and families on the island.
• Nexterus , a supply chain management and third-party logistics provider, announced the Nexterus Charity of the Year for 2023. This year’s charity is Building Bridges for Brianna, a York County, Pennsylvania, charity that helps members of the community deal with and prevent suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury.
> GREEN SEEDS
> MILESTONE
n CN launched a new self-service, sustainability tool, My Carbon Emissions, that gives shippers a detailed report of their estimated greenhouse gas emissions based on their shipments moved on CN, as well as the emissions avoided by choosing rail over truck. n Schneider completed its first-ever battery electric vehicle delivery with Frito-Lay North America, the first company to contract transport on Schneider's fleet of electric Freightliner eCascadia trucks.
n Founded in 1983 as an airfreight specialist in Vienna, cargo-partner is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Today, the company offers air, sea, rail, road transport and warehousing services from 160+ offices globally.
n Southeastern Freight Lines is celebrating 70 years of service at its Florence, South Carolina, service center, which opened for business in June 1953 with a handful of dock doors and one associate. Since then, the facility has grown to 67 dock doors and 60 associates.
14 Inbound Logistics • June 2023
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