Gary Petty in Fleet Owner

When Maines Paper & Food Service Inc. purchased electronic onboard recorders (EOBRs), achieving a return on its investment was a top priority. It saw the sophisticated software as a way to manage DOT requirements, as well as to manage…._x000D_

Giant Eagle Inc. is one of the nation’s largest food retailers and food distributors with about $9.3 billion in annual sales. The company ranked 29th on Forbes’ annual list of the largest private companies and is the recipient of Grocery Headquarters’ 2007 Retailer of the Year Award as well as the EPA’s Energy Star Retail Partner of the Year Award. ….

In September, NPTC recognized 18 of the nation’s top private fleet drivers as the third class of the National Driver All-Stars program sponsored by Navistar Inc. The recognition, which took place during the NPTC National Safety Conference, honors those drivers who demonstrate high performance standards….

In 1948, a hog farmer named Bob Evans found trouble trying to get quality sausage for customers at his 12-stool restaurant named The Sausage Shop, located in the tiny village of Gallipolis, OH. So he began making his own…_x000D_
 

Chris Trice is an exceptionally good truck driver. But he is also an uncommonly good person. Delivering tires and automotive parts with exemplary levels of service and safety for Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations for the past several years as a contract driver with CPC Logistics, Trice was chosen as an NPTC National Driver All-Star last year…._x000D_

Cutting-edge issues such as sleep apnea and CSA compliance will headline next month’s eighth annual National Safety Conference sponsored by the National Private Truck Council. Hundreds of private fleet safety professionals will gather just outside of Washington, DC, for the meeting, which will be held Sept. 15-16 at the Hyatt Dulles in Herndon, VA…_x000D_
 

As one of the country’s great industrial giants, Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) operates the largest agricultural transportation system in the world. The company deploys its own private fleet of barges, a private railroad, and a private truck fleet known as ADM Trucking…_x000D_
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Based in Findlay, OH, the Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. has operated a private truck fleet for more than 50 years, using a major brand full-service leasing company for its 17 sleeper-berth tractors…

Each year, the National Private Truck Council Safety Committee holds its Summer On-Site Meeting at a member company to demonstrate innovative safety systems and technology. In 2011, the meeting will be held…

A small grocery store named Meijer opened for business in little-known Greenville, MI, in 1934. From this Depression-era beginning, Meijer launched the first “supercenter”…

Based in Buffalo, NY, Upstate Niagara is a dairy cooperative owned by 400 dairy farms ranging in size from about 50 to 3,000 cows and producing some of the highest quality milk in the country…

Last year, NPTC officially launched one of the most dynamic private fleet management tools ever to enter the marketplace. The Private Fleet Assessment Program (PFAP), sponsored as a joint venture by NPTC, Schneider National and Optima Associates…_x000D_

Next month, the National Private Truck Council unveils a new and expanded version of its Private Fleet Management Institute (PFMI), a robust training opportunity that provides private fleet professionals the tools and resources they need to unlock…._x000D_

As one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America operating one of the top two-dozen largest private fleets in the country, Safeway Inc. has an extensive network of distribution, manufacturing and food-processing facilities…_x000D_

Orscheln Farm & Home is a leading Midwestern retailer serving rural and suburban customers with 154 retail store locations throughout nine states in the country’s heartland. These locations are serviced from a single distribution point…

For the past 17 years, the National Private Truck Council has offered a highly regarded professional certification program for private fleet professionals (the only one of its kind in the United States)…

In the spring of 2007, Gates Corp. had a special challenge. It was becoming apparent that the company’s manufacturing locations for power transmission and fluid power products in Mexico were becoming major suppliers for domestic distribution in the United States…

All eyes of the trucking industry are fixed on the CSA 2010 regulations scheduled for full implementation in November. New rules and higher standards of safety will come into play…

True Value Co.’s private fleet consists of 310 leased tractors, 776 trailers, and 342 full-time drivers traveling 27 million mi. per year. Working out of 12 distribution centers…

In today’s cost-driven environment, private fleet “justification” has, for all practical purposes, become a per-run, per-day drill event for managers of even the most proven and long-standing fleets. National benchmarks to measure how well an individual private fleet stacks up…._x000D_