Category: People

Fleeting, a Black-Owned Commercial Trucking and Fleet Management Company, Receives $500,000 Investment from NBA Star Kyrie Irving and New Fund Lockstep Ventures

Fleeting, a Black-Owned Commercial Trucking and Fleet Management Company, Receives $500,000 Investment from NBA Star Kyrie Irving and New Fund Lockstep Ventures

| May 11, 2021

The investment will help grow Fleeting’s social impact arm to hire and train those from underserved communities, including women and formerly incarcerated people Fleeting, a Black-owned commercial trucking and fleet management services company, is proud to announce that it received a seed round investment of $500,000 from Kyrie Irving, NBA superstar and founder of new consulting firm, […]

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Women In Trucking Association Announces its May 2021 Member of the Month

Women In Trucking Association Announces its May 2021 Member of the Month

| May 3, 2021

Carina BeeBe is a professional driver for Wilson Logistics The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) has announced Carina BeeBe as its May Member of the Month. Carina is a professional driver for Wilson Logistics. In 1999, Carina began her professional driving career in Europe, driving primarily curtain van, mostly in Holland, Belgium, and Germany. After […]

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Weaver Named Women In Trucking’s 2021 Driver of the Year

Weaver Named Women In Trucking’s 2021 Driver of the Year

| April 28, 2021

Weaver now has more than 2 million accident-free miles and zero moving violations The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) announced today Nikki Weaver, company driver for FedEx Freight, as the winner of the second annual Driver of the Year award sponsored by Walmart. Weaver was among three finalists for the award. The other finalists include […]

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Perdue Farms Driver Alvin Smith Achieves Four Million Consecutive Accident-Free Driving Miles

Perdue Farms Driver Alvin Smith Achieves Four Million Consecutive Accident-Free Driving Miles

| April 27, 2021

He’s the first company driver to achieve the milestone, the equivalent of approximately 160 trips around the Earth Perdue Farms truck driver Alvin Smith of Robersonville, N.C., is celebrating a milestone – four million consecutive accident-free miles driving professionally for Perdue. He’s the first company driver to achieve the milestone, the equivalent of approximately 160 trips around the Earth. […]

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C.R. England Announces Historic Driver Pay Increase

C.R. England Announces Historic Driver Pay Increase

| April 26, 2021

Raising driver pay is another indicator C.R. England is committed to providing our employees with a long-term career path they can count on financially C.R. England, one of the nation’s leaders in transportation solutions, has announced its largest driver pay raise in company history and third historic pay increase for drivers since 2018. The pay […]

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Transportation Secretary Buttigieg says it’s ‘time to reckon with issues that are literally physically built into our transportation infrastructure.’

Transportation Secretary Buttigieg says it’s ‘time to reckon with issues that are literally physically built into our transportation infrastructure.’

| April 19, 2021

Secretary Buttigieg Talks Equity, Pushes Expanded Broadband at SVLG Cities Matter Summit and FTA’s Nuria Fernandez Details Money for Bay Area in American Jobs Plan Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s first major talk with Silicon Valley since the public unveiling of the historic infrastructure package, he talked about the broad, bipartisan public support for the American Jobs Plan. […]

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