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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)....
...andrew.hill@ft.com Twitter: @andrewtghill...
...DHybrid Inc also sold fuel systems to Florida rubbish collector Waste Pro and Pennsylvania trucking company Birkmire Transportation Solutions....
...The founder of the hydrogen trucking start-up Nikola stepped aside at the start of the week, days after a report from a short-seller attacking the company....
...“We were climbing the hill, the grade steepened and now we’re estimating a full-year impact to be roughly $250 million.”...
...Democrats have been counting on hostility to the president to drive turnout among their supporters in November’s midterm elections as they seek to make inroads on Capitol Hill....
...Until recently, the ground here was a tangle of 20th-century sycamores and laurel....
...Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with archive shots – Beatrix Potter at Hill Top Farm, for example....
...In what the Conference Board described as a warning to the rest of the world’s companies not to rest on their laurels, Asian business leaders ranked innovation more highly than their counterparts elsewhere...
...andrew.hill@ft.com...
...If London can maintain its pre-eminence after such a shock, then it will deserve to retain its laurels as the leading global financial centre....
...Let that be a lesson to overreaching bosses everywhere: after all, there are still 90 years left to win the “worst deal” laurels back. andrew.hill@ft.com Hays and jobs: louise.lucas@ft.com...
...After all, there are still 90 years left to win back the “worst deal of the century” laurels from Mr Levin and his team. world.view@ft.com...
...The presidential endorsement was just another laurel for his rapidly growing and remarkably successful hamburger empire....
...Across mile upon mile of highway in the plains of the midwest, the rolling hills of the south-east or the forests of New England, huge trucks thunder, carrying goods from producers to customers or from distribution...
...Hunt, one of the biggest US trucking companies, and Tyson Foods, the world’s largest processor of chicken, beef and pork....
..., asks El-Erian, co-chief executive and co-chief investment officer of Pimco and author of a new book, When Worlds Collide (McGraw Hill)....
...The proposed dual-mode units will use electric motors powered by batteries to augment the power of their diesel engines, mainly during acceleration and hill climbing....
...selected Thomas Friedman’s paean to globalisation, The World is Flat, as the inaugural winner of the £30,000 ($56,000) prize – came to it with a clearer sense of the kind of book that deserves to take the laurels...
...On the panel: Cody Willard, hedge fund manager at CL Willard Partners, and Jeff Matthews, blogger and investment adviser; the FT’s columnist Stephen Schurr, and Henry Blodget, president of Cherry Hill Research...
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