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...JB Hunt, which is a big old capital-intensive diesel-burning trucking company that owns its own trucks, earned 11 per cent (and that was its worst year in more than two decades; trucking is in a slump)....
...Additional reporting by Eung Sea A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 12. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Given a shortage of labour in areas such as trucking, he added: “I still think we’re going to feel a lot of pressure from inflation in the supply chain for some time.”...
...Uber has no more chance of eliminating rivals in trucking than it does in any other sector....
...“Six months ago when this was raised to me by clients around the country . . . you never would have thought it would have gotten so much worse since then,” said Brian Moynihan, Bank of America chief executive...
...The Biden administration has been pushing rail freight companies, trucking groups and ports to increase their own capacity to meet rising demand....
...“Historically, [workers in] companies have just grabbed people closest to them on an org chart and asked them to solve it,” adds Brian McGarvey, human resources leader for US and Canada at GE Healthcare,...
...Amazon has pledged to buy 100,000 electric delivery vans from Rivian — a Michigan-based producer. But Nikola’s stock trajectory and sustainability antecedents remind us of Beyond Meat....
...Within China the ecommerce giant has taken minority stakes and expanded its say at four main couriers that run the trucking and three-wheeled delivery vans on city streets....
...That's perhaps why, at an IPO roadshow last week, chief financial officer Brian Roberts stressed the importance of lowering its insurance costs, according to Reuters....
...Alphaville’s Jamie Powell looks at the unicorns’ Van Wilder moment. (FT) A merger made in heaven?...
...The national average rate for hiring a “dry van” box trailer increased 30 per cent in the year to June to $2.32 per mile, the highest on record, according to DAT Solutions, an online trucking service....
...“Small banks are highly concentrated in commercial real estate, and the Bank OZK results put investors on high alert — even banks with great track records can have losses,” said Brian Foran of Autonomous...
...The spin off will allow VF to retain brands like outdoor wear brand North Face, shoe company Vans....
...Brian Goldner, chief executive of Hasbro, put the message more starkly....
...Others looked at the bigger picture: ownership of Sky is an unfolding battle, pitting Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and Bob Iger’s Disney against Brian Roberts of Comcast — the world’s largest entertainment group...
...But in winter 2017, US trucking companies are confronting a shortage of human drivers....
..., Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management (Hong Kong); Tao Wang, head of China economic research, UBS A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on October 4, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc...
...In another key exchange on Tuesday, Chris Van Hollen, the Democratic senator from Maryland, picked up on a remark from Mr Sloan to the effect that Wells was allowing customers affected by the fake account...
...“A mobile van arrived a few days a week for a few hours, but that stopped about three weeks ago with no notice and no explanation,” said Tina Schwarz from Eye, Suffolk....
...In hiring Mr Erlicht and Mr Van Amberg, Apple is signalling an intention to go it alone....
...But it also needs to be careful not to enter the market too slowly, avoiding the example of Yahoo, warns Brian Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Research....
...Brian Williams joined after being suspended from NBC for telling a fictitious story on-air and now has an evening show. Greta Van Susteren, a former Fox News presenter, is rumoured to be joining too....
...Barely three years later, in 1990, Christie’s broke records yet again, selling Van Gogh’s “Portrait of Dr Gachet” in New York for $82.5m....
...Manhattan shoppers looking for Barneys New York’s distinctive edit of luxury wear — clothing by Rick Owens and Dries Van Noten, accessories from Proenza Schouler and Saint Laurent and beauty items from niche...
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