Briefly: P&S Transportation acquires Southeast devoted service
P&S Transportation LLC, a PS Logistics subsidiary, introduced Monday it has bought all substantial transportation belongings of Motion Devoted LLC and Motion Devoted II LLC, a subsidiary of Motion Assets LLC that focuses on devoted transportation within the Southeastern United States. Monetary phrases of the transaction weren’t disclosed.
Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Motion Devoted maintains a fleet of 120 drivers and 364 trailers and primarily hauls automotive elements for blue-chip clients. The transaction will additional strengthen and diversify P&S’s present devoted operations whereas additionally enhancing the companies offered to present and future clients inside PS Logistics’ freight community.
“We’re proud to welcome Motion Devoted to the PS Logistics household,” stated Scott Smith, chief government officer and co-founder, PS Logistics. “We sit up for working with its robust management crew and upstanding drivers whereas additionally persevering with to ship best-in-class service to its clients.”
The acquisition will present Motion Devoted, its clients, and its drivers with expanded capability, new service choices and elevated economies of scale.
Motion Devoted can be managed by David McKinley as a separate division of P&S. Motion Devoted will proceed to function beneath the identical title.
“We consider P&S can be an excellent successor and steward for the Motion Devoted enterprise,” stated Staci Pierce, chief government officer of Motion Enterprise Holdings. “We’re happy for Motion Devoted to be acquired by one other ‘driver-first’ firm as we proceed our heightened concentrate on the expansion of our specialty chemical and waste, environmental, and logistics platforms.”
The Motion Devoted acquisition continues PS Logistics’ acquisition technique of partnering with driver-focused corporations that complement present service choices. Since 2016, PS Logistics has efficiently acquired 27 trucking and brokerage operations.
Trucker Path holds appreciation sweepstakes
The multi-purpose app Trucker Path is sponsoring its second annual Nationwide Truck Driver Appreciation Sweepstakes.
The NTDA Sweepstakes will maintain weekly drawings for 4 weeks (from July 26 to Aug. 16), revealing the grand prize winner on Sept. 13 throughout Nationwide Truck Driver Appreciation Week.
The NTDA Sweepstakes is open for registration starting July 17 for lively U.S. truck drivers with a legitimate industrial driver’s license. Truckers curious about getting into the 2023 NTDA Sweepstakes can click on right here.
The weekly prizes embody $500 in Sheetz gasoline playing cards and 5 free nights at any Motel 6 within the U.S. The grand prize winner will obtain $3,000 in Sheetz gasoline playing cards, 30 free nights at any Motel 6 within the U.S., and $500 in Exxon and Mobil station gasoline playing cards.
Nationwide Truck Driver Appreciation Week runs from Sept. 10-16.
Love’s graduates three hundredth diesel technician
Love’s Truck Care and Speedco lately celebrated the milestone of 300 diesel technicians graduating from Love’s Truck Care Academy because the coaching program launched in April 2022. The curriculum combines classroom instruction with hands-on expertise in seven heavy-duty truck techniques.
Love’s stated in an announcement its Truck Care Academy is the one accelerated diesel technician coaching program of its sort for newbies. Workers who full this system are given a device set valued at $3,500 and are eligible to earn a fee for mechanical work on high of their hourly pay and an annual productiveness bonus.
For his or her coaching, candidates journey to one in every of two Love’s Truck Care Academies in Amarillo, Texas, or El Reno, Oklahoma. Two extra coaching amenities are set to open in Arizona and Indiana within the coming months.
Anybody within the coaching applications at Love’s Truck Care and Speedco can apply at jobs.loves.com. Extra details about Love’s Truck Care Academy and the Diesel Technician Apprenticeship will be discovered at jobs.loves.com and at loves.com/en/truck-services/truck-care-academy.
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