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Gas Station Tycoon Jimmy Haslam Opposes Trump's Plan to Privatize Interstate Rest Areas

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A national coalition of truck stop and travel plaza operators, restaurants, trucking firms and others are urging key federal lawmakers to oppose Trump administration efforts to commercialize interstate rest areas as Congress develops an infrastructure bill.

June 14, 2017
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UPS Plans $260 Million Central Indiana Hub

UPS Inc. is planning a massive expansion in Plainfield, Ind., to keep pace with surging growth in e-commerce.

June 13, 2017
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Louisiana's Next Debate on a Higher Gas Tax? Likely 2021, at the Earliest

The death of the push to raise Louisiana's gasoline tax not only ended the issue for 2017.

June 13, 2017
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Canadian Investor Snaps Up Far East Dallas Warehouse Hub

A Canadian investor has purchased a large Dallas distribution complex plus additional land next door.

June 13, 2017
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Rail Bottlenecks Ease in North Dakota Since Oil Bust

In 2014, railcar space was prime real estate that was high in demand. A conglomerate of factors had come together to bottleneck North Dakota rail shipments.

June 12, 2017
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Californians Give Big Thumbs Down to New Gas Tax, Poll Finds

Californians may hate swerving to avoid potholes, but a new law that will charge drivers an extra $10 a month to pave over the state’s problem roads is provoking its own kind of road rage.

June 9, 2017
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Amazon on Its Way to Nine Fulfillment Centers, 8,000 Employees in Illinois

Received a large package from Amazon recently? A television or a toaster oven, perhaps? There's a chance it stopped in Romeoville, Ill., on its way to your front door.

June 9, 2017
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Plan Seeks to Create North Florida Regional Intermodal System

A strategic plan unveiled late last month provides the framework for creation of an integrated system transporting goods in a four-county region in Florida, including Gulf.

June 9, 2017
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Amazon Plans $255 Million Connecticut Fulfillment Center

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. is planning to build an 855,000-square-foot fulfillment center on the former Pratt & Whitney site in North Haven, Conn., Gov. Dannel Malloy announced June 8. The move is expected to add 1,800 jobs.

June 9, 2017
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Building a Sustainable ‘Highway of the Future’

WEST POINT, Ga. — Just past the Alabama border, in a bit of rural Georgia filled with manufacturing plants and distribution warehouses, there's an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85 where new technologies are being tested for what could be a green highway of the future.

June 8, 2017