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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.

With more than 4,000 comments filed already, input is due Oct. 10 on the FMCSA’s advance notice of proposed rulemaking on hours of service rule regulations for commercial truck drivers.

Exporters of air-shipped produce to the United Arab Emirates have a new premium service option.

Total Quality Logistics is using the term “Pinktober” to describe the company’s month-long blitz to raise funds and support breast cancer research.

Dallas, Texas-based Nogales Produce Inc. is using Paragon Software Systems’ routing and scheduling software to help improve its complex delivery operations.

Companies that supply bananas have encountered numerous supply and transportation difficulties this year, stemming from weather and political issues in various growing regions.

Del Monte Fresh Produce is replacing its East Coast fleet with six container ships that will deliver produce from Central and South America to the U.S.

To say there is pushback against the idea of creating another pilot program to allow drivers under 21 to operate commercial trucks is putting it mildly.