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...Bringing just one well into production can require 600-700 truckloads of sand, which is pumped underground with water and chemicals to hold open small cracks in the rock so oil can flow out....
...The labels no longer face the costs of hauling truckloads of CDs to Walmart. Instead of ownership, they are selling access to a digital music fortress....
...At least six truckloads of Old Jamaica Ginger Beer. They’re out on the ring road heading for Bromley. Sidekick: Do we know how much they are bringing in? Lashings of it....
...Operating income at FedEx freight, the freight forwarding division, fell 21 per cent to $168m, on revenue of $1.6bn against last year’s $1.61bn, because of lower-than-expected demand for less-than-truckload...
...Caroline Ramsay, a state aid specialist at Pinsent Masons, a law firm, said she understood that “truckloads” of documents about rulings had been sent to Brussels and questions were already being asked about...
...If you are transporting 50,000 truckloads of timber across China, it can be hard to see the wood for the trees....
...The company attributed the gain to growth in demand for smaller, “less-than-truckload” shipments, increased average revenue from such shipments and “solid cost management”....
...Samsung said on Tuesday its factory near Sao Paulo was attacked by about 20 heavily-armed bandits early on Monday and its workers there were held hostage while truckloads of smartphones, tablets and notebook...
...“We could test every truckload,” he says. “Yet, if the Chinese authorities . . . find two kernels in a 2m-bushel Panamax vessel . . .”...
...They were said to have bought convertible debentures from Sahara India Real Estate and Sahara Housing Investment Corp....
...“You only need to see a truckload of 10,000 of these to realise what a logistical challenge it is to get a net from a port into an individual’s hands,” says Mr Filler....
...Dick Costolo, Twitter chief executive, said last year that his company was in no rush to go public and had a “truckload of money in the bank”, suggesting that it had not used up the $400m it raised in late...
...Dick Costolo, chief executive, said Twitter had a “truckload of money in the bank” after a recent $800m fundraising, of which $400m was used to pay off existing shareholders, and was under no pressure to...
...“Truckloads of new vehicles began arriving in the last week of September and shoppers can now feel more confident that they will find what they want,” he added. Toyota had a similar message....
...FedEx said that growth would be helped by the recent combination of its FedEx Freight and FedEx National LTL (Less than truckload) operations, which would create a leaner, more efficient freight business...
...“It does little to help innovation and growth if foreign competitors can steal by the truckload the results of US investments in research and intellectual property because of weak cybersecurity”....
...Or in graphical form: Source: Muddy Waters Such a structure allowed Sino-Forest to claim there could be 50,000 truckloads of timber rattling through Yunnan’s dirt roads, Muddy Waters claimed: It exceeds...
...The biggest truckload carrier in North America, Swift Transportation, edged up 0.9 per cent to $11.10 in its first day of trading....
...The domestic trucking operations continue to lose money, and will be combined with the so called less-than-truckload freight division at the start of next year....
...Meanwhile, device makers such as Amazon, Sony and Barnes & Noble are selling e-readers by the truckload, with as many as 10m expected to be in use in the US this year according to Forrester Research....
...Chris Flowers and his investors are sitting on losses from the decision to plough a further truckload of cash into Shinsei....
...For example, staff use the data warehouse to build full truckloads carrying as many cases and as much weight as possible, so that trucks are not heading out to retailers half-full....
...Demand slackened for US express packages, less-than-truckload shipments, and copy and printing services....
...Less-than-truckload, or LTL, freight refers to shipments corporate customers make when they need to move goods quickly and cannot wait until orders fill an entire truck....
...Freight trucking weakness persists as the industry struggles through a recession in which share prices of “less-than-truckload” shippers have dropped 30 per cent this year....
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