Briefly: Truckers Christmas Group opens nominations of households in want
A charity that aids truckers’ households in want is now accepting purposes for this 12 months’s spherical of assist.
The Truckers Christmas Group introduced it would settle for nominations by means of Dec. 17.
Now in its fifteenth 12 months, the group has raised some $150,000 and aided 244 trucker households within the U.S. and Canada who’re experiencing monetary difficulties.
The group can also be elevating funds for this 12 months’s assist to households. A part of these efforts is a web based retailer the place the group sells merchandise donated by companies.
To donate or nominate a household in want, go to the Truckers Christmas Group on-line.
Bay and Bay sells off its tanker division
McCoy Group, the guardian firm of tank transporter Foodliner and liquid and dry bulk service Quest Liner is buying the Burnsville, Minnesota-based tank trucking phase of Bay and Bay Transportation.
Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Foodliner, based mostly in Dubuque, Iowa, will proceed working out of Burnsville, whereas Bay and Bay’s devoted trucking groups will transfer to the corporate’s Eagan, Minnesota, facility.
Bay and Bay CEO Sam Anderson famous that the divestiture of its tank enterprise permits Bay and Bay to additional focus and spend money on its refrigerated trucking and multi-modal logistics companies, which make up 97% of the corporate’s annual income and have grown greater than 30% yearly the previous three years. The corporate is among the many largest refrigerated logistics suppliers within the U.S.
The McCoy Group, a family-owned and privately held freight firm established in 1958, is the most important food-grade bulk service within the U.S.
Dot Transportation drivers obtain COVID bonus
Dot Meals, Inc. and its affiliate trucking firm, Dot Transportation, Inc. (DTI), lately gave a pandemic restoration bonus of three p.c to all full-time workers That is an extra, one-time bonus based mostly on workers’ earnings and is along with the prevailing quarterly bonus program, in line with an announcement from the corporate.
“The final two years have been extraordinarily tough on everybody, together with our workers,” Dick Tracy, president of Dot Meals. “Like so many different companies, ours suffered when the pandemic hit. And whereas demand for Dot’s providers has rebounded, returning to post-pandemic ranges, the nation has additionally been navigating the labor scarcity and price of dwelling has grown sooner than most anticipated.
“We’re nonetheless within the restoration, and our workers proceed to go above and past to maintain America fed. Contemplating all of it, we wished to do one thing particular to thank them, so we determined so as to add this restoration bonus on high of our common quarterly bonus program this 12 months.”
The bonus is predicated on every worker’s complete earnings from Jan. 1 to Dec. 4, 2022, and can be paid in mid-December 2022, forward of the vacation season.`
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