Two teenage boys posted their apology on youtube, but the victim of the 32 ounce soda thrown through the drive-thru window says it’s not enough. Jessica Ceponis, says her face was clearly shown and the boys apology was scripted by their attorney. The stupid prank is called “Fire in the Hole” where a drive-thru customer receives his drink and throws it back at the drive-thru worker.
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The Salmonella outbreak in the west adds another county in Texas to its list of confirmed salmonella poisoning from tomatoes. Even though the FDA declares that Texas and New Mexico grown tomatoes is not the source of the illnesses. State health department sources still urge people to limit raw tomato consumption to Cherry tomatoes and Grape tomato varieties. The CDC has reported 56 Salmonella cases in Texas and 55 in New Mexico.
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DHL Express is ditching it’s relationship with Wilmington, Ohio bsed ABX Air due to the restructuring of its air transport operations. UPS is only providing the air transport portion for DHL, everything else appears that it’s going to remain the same.
You’ll still see the yellow and red striped trucks driving around, this only affects the DHL packages from airport to airport and not DHL freight only packages.
This is surprising news because ABX had just announced a contract renewal was going to be approved later this year. I bet this is really a surprise to the 7,000 people in the Wilmington, Ohio hub and sorting facility, especially the 1500 that are slated for immediate termination.
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The high price of diesel right now is only a small part of the puzzle when it comes to operating expenses when owning a truck. Every time hit a benchmark dollar amount the same arguments and complaints came out. Trucking companies and independent owner operator were being put out of business by the high price of diesel.
Which is not exactly true. The price of fuel has always been going up some time faster than others, truck insurance has always gone up, the price of tires and the price of trucks has always gone up. But the price to ship something by truck has gone up also so that trucking companies and owner operators could keep covering their expenses. Trucking companies and truck owners go out of business all of the time even in the good years for a myriad of reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
