The Log Book is a weekly rundown of human-interest stories related to the transportation industry. This week: husband and wife team drivers deliver the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, Wabash continues to support the local Feeding America food bank and Love’s distributes holiday meals to military families.
Hardy Brothers Trucking delivers U.S. Capitol Christmas TreeTruck manufacturer Kenworth recently announced its T680 Next Gen truck was utilized by husband and wife team drivers, Deb and Ed...
The Log Book is a weekly rundown of human-interest stories related to the transportation industry. This week: CMA CGM donates 12,000 turkeys, Gopuff donates $100,000 to fight food insecurity and supports rapper Quavo’s turkey drive, and SC Ports employees donate their Thanksgiving gift cards to a local food bank.
CMA CGM donates 12,000 turkeys to families nationwideThis Thanksgiving, global shipping and logistics company CMA CGM Group partnered with city food banks and The Salvation Army to...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-log-book-cma-cgm-donates-12000-turkeys-to-families-nationwide
For the past three months or so, the U.S. Postal Service has been taken to the woodshed over too many late or missed deliveries of mail and parcels. With delivery reliability such a paramount issue, it might seem fanciful to float an idea for the Postal Service to pick up service-sensitive fresh produce at the nation’s farms and deliver it to residences.
However, that’s what the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Markets Institute is proposing through a drawing-board initiative called Farmers Post,...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/can-the-postal-service-bridge-the-food-insecurity-gap?
Of all the images of this awful year, perhaps none were as gut-wrenching as those of cars, many occupied by people who’ve never known hunger, lined up for miles to accept free boxes of foodstuffs. Or those of milk farmers pouring untold gallons of product into the ground because their normal distribution channels were suddenly closed off and they had no way to reposition their supply before it spoiled.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, 35.2 million Americans, nearly one-third of them children, lived...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/feeding-americans-in-these-worst-of-times
While dairy is one of the most requested items by food-insecure families, fresh milk is usually scarce at food banks because many centers simply don’t have the facilities to store perishable goods.
However, Dairy Max, a nonprofit dairy council made up of 900 dairy farm families across an eight-state region, and Seattle-based Convoy, a digital freight network, are teaming up to deliver thousands of gallons of fresh milk to food banks in Texas.
The goal is to expand the pilot program to mass...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/dairy-max,-convoy-team-up-to-deliver-fresh-milk-to-food-banks-in-texas
Good day,
Fullbay has launched Fullbay Cares, a charitable initiative designed to help the heavy-duty repair community.
Fullbay provides shop management software for heavy-duty repair shops.
Throughout May, every time a U.S.-based shop signs up with Fullbay, Fullbay Cares will make a donation to Feeding America; for each Canadian-based shop that signs up, Fullbay will contribute to Food Banks Canada. Both hunger-relief organizations stock hundreds of food banks across North America, helping to...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/todays-pickup-fullbay-cares-launches-to-help-support-those-in-need
