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Kodiak Robotics, Pilot open 1st autonomous truckport
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Tom Love, who co-founded Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores with his wife in 1964 and grew the company to a family of businesses with more than 600 travel plazas in 42 states, died Tuesday. He was 85.
“Tom Love was a man of conviction who never wavered from the principles of honesty and integrity in the 59 years he spent developing the company he started with his wife, Judy,” Love’s President Shane Wharton said in a news release. “These tenets still guide our company and will as we move...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tom-love-co-founder-of-loves-travel-stops-passes-at-85
Just as analysts are about to lose the financial information coming out of one of the biggest truck stop companies, they are going to get a look at an even bigger one.
The planned acquisition by TravelCenters of America (NASDAQ: TA) by oil company giant BP, announced last month, means that the quarterly earnings and conference calls of TA will disappear.
But earlier this quarter, on Jan. 31, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) increased its stake in privately owned Pilot Travel Centers, which...
Volvo Group and Pilot Co. will build on Pilot’s plan to add electric charging at selected truck stops and travel plazas scaled for heavy-duty trucks.
Few specifics accompanied Tuesday’s announcement of a letter of intent to develop public, high-performing charging infrastructure for medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles at more than 750 Pilot and Flying J locations across North America.
Pilot said in July it would install 2,000 electric fast chargers at 500 of its U.S. truck stops over the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/pilot-and-volvo-group-add-to-public-electric-charging-projects
Kodiak Robotics is developing a highway-adjacent autonomous trucking hub in Atlanta with Pilot Co. that could foreshadow the startup’s approach to eventual long-haul driverless freight movement using an undetermined number of Pilot and Flying J locations.
Knoxville, Tennessee-based Pilot operates 750 truck stops and travel plazas in 44 states and six Canadian provinces. It made an undisclosed “strategic investment” in privately held Kodiak. Pilot will have a seat on the Mountain View,...
The Log Book is a weekly rundown of human-interest stories related to the transportation industry. This week: Pilot donates $100,000 to Hire Heroes USA; Scrubblade becomes a sponsor of the St. Christopher Truckers Relief Fund; and TravelCenters of America starts taking nominations for its trucker awards.
Pilot donates $100,000 to Hire Heroes USATravel center operator Pilot Company announced this week it has donated $100,000 to Hire Heroes USA, a nonprofit organization that assists military...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-log-book-pilot-donates-100k-to-hire-heroes-usa
Fuel supplier and travel center operator Pilot Company raised more than $1 million for Save the Children’s Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund.
A portion of the funds were raised by customers who rounded up their purchases at more than 650 participating U.S. travel centers and restaurants. Pilot Company gifted $100,000 to the effort, and some of the company’s team members made contributions as well.
“The devastation in Ukraine is heartbreaking,” Shameek Konar, CEO of Pilot Company, said in a release on...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/pilot-raises-1m-for-children-and-families-in-ukraine
The Log Book is a weekly rundown of human-interest stories related to the transportation industry. This week: Pilot announces details of its three-year remodeling plans; the Women Automotive Network releases diversity survey data; and Fayetteville State University honors successful supply chain interns.
Pilot announces $1 billion remodeling initiativePilot Company, founder of Pilot J and Travel Centers, announced Wednesday that it will be spending $1 billion over the next three years for an...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-log-book-pilot-announces-1b-remodeling-initiative
The Log Book is a weekly rundown of human interest stories related to the transportation industry. This week: FreightWaves reviews five top Log Book stories from the past year, from National Truck Driver Appreciation Week activities to the gifting of a Peterbilt.
1. 4 creative ways companies honored truck drivers
While some logistics providers simply post an image on their social media sites to honor truck drivers during their annual appreciation week, others go out of their way...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-log-book-top-5-stories-of-2021
Federal prosecutors filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss all charges against ex-Pilot Company President Mark Hazelwood and two of his staffers.
Acting U.S. Attorney Trey Hamilton filed a motion in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee to dismiss the charges against Hazelwood, along with two former sales team executives, Scott “Scooter” Wombold and Heather Jones.
Hazelwood was the highest-level executive of Pilot, the nation’s largest fuel retailer headquartered in Knoxville,...