Briefly: NFI including battery-electric vehicles to Calif. warehouse fleet

NFI, a serious third-party provide chain options supplier, mentioned just lately it’s increasing its fleet of Class 8 battery-electric vehicles in Southern California as a part of the Joint Electrical Truck Scaling Initiative (JETSI) challenge.

Below the challenge, which is designed to indicate that fleets can efficiently scale their BET fleets, NFI will function 30 Freightliner eCascadias and 20 Volvo VNR Electrical vehicles from its Ontario, California, warehouse facility to assist its devoted port drayage providers for patrons spanning from manufacturing to retail.

NFI mentioned it has taken supply of the primary 15 of its Class 8 BETs funded by way of the challenge, with the remaining ordered vehicles set to be delivered by the tip of June 2023. By the tip of this 12 months, NFI mentioned it would have 100 Class 8 battery-electric vehicles devoted to port drayage.

Fleets honored for safety, loss prevention efforts

The American Trucking Associations’ Transportation Safety Council just lately acknowledged a number of fleets for his or her dedication to trucking trade safety and loss prevention efforts on the group’s annual assembly earlier this month.

”The winners have been acknowledged at ATA’s 2023 Security, Safety & Human Sources Nationwide Convention & Exhibition in Minneapolis, Minnesota.They embody: 

• ATA Excellence in Safety: Outdated Dominion Freight Line, Thomasville, North Carolina
• ATA Excellence in Claims & Loss Prevention: Much less-than-Truckload Provider: ABF Freight Techniques, Fort Smith, Arkansas
• ATA Excellence in Claims & Loss Prevention: Truckload Provider: M&W Transportation, Nashville, Tennessee.

“Trucking is an trade that has a accountability to maintain the general public and our clients protected, a accountability that these corporations take very severely,” mentioned TSC Government Director Jacob Pierce. “Having a robust dedication to safety – whether or not it is stopping theft or stopping crime and terrorism is a vital cost for our trade and these carriers have proven large dedication it.”

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