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Putting a finer point on government regulations or providing clarity on bureaucratic language is not easy to do.

With a fleet of about 200 trucks and about 300 trailers, Twin Falls, Idaho,-based Giltner Inc., is an asset-based shipper with heavy business in the fresh produce sector.

Index Fresh has hired Abdoulie Jobe in the new position of logistics manager.

On July 1, U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Falfurrias Checkpoint in Texas arrested two U.S. citizens attempting to smuggle 12 undocumented immigrants in a tractor-trailer load of onions.

Freight brokerage Total Quality Logistics, Cincinnati, has received the “Best in Cargo Security” award for cargo theft prevention efforts.

Crowley Logistics has opened an expanded warehouse in Miami in early April, consolidating two facilities and adding 60,000 square feet to the operation.

David Allen Lund, who founded and led the Allen Lund Co., has died.

Coast Produce is expanding in three key states with facilities that enhance the company’s cross dock and consolidation services, and alleviate pressures of new electronic logging device mandates.

Brandy McMullen has been named general office manager of Choptank Transport’s Tampa, Fla., office.

Eddie Lund has been promoted to president of Allen Lund Co., the transportation company his father founded in 1976.