Trucking news and briefs for Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022:
J.B. Hunt Transport Services (CCJ Top 250, No. 3) will participate in Wreaths Across America for the ninth consecutive year. This year, 70 J.B. Hunt drivers will help 42 loads of wreaths reach their final destination at veteran cemeteries throughout the country to remember fallen veterans this holiday season.
J.B. Hunt corporate and field employees will join volunteers at Fayetteville (Arkansas) National Cemetery on Wreaths Across America Day, Dec. 17, to place wreaths on the headstones. Additionally, the company will hold a support rally on Dec. 16 at its corporate headquarters in Lowell, Arkansas, with guest speaker Daniel Robinson, a Gold Star father who lost his son, Senior Chief Special Operator Heath Robinson, in Afghanistan in 2011.
Altogether, J.B. Hunt will assist in the delivery of approximately 287,000 wreaths to cemeteries nationwide, including Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, Dayton National Cemetery, Fayetteville National Cemetery, Georgia National Cemetery, National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona, Riverside National Cemetery, Salisbury National Cemetery, San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery, and Tahoma National Cemetery, among others.
A collaboration with BNSF Railway will make this year’s delivery the largest number of Intermodal loads hauled in the company’s nine-year history of supporting Wreaths Across America. J.B. Hunt has customized 12 tractors and four trailers with a military-themed wrap to participate in the deliveries.
Ryder System announced Wednesday that it will open its 10th multiclient distribution center in the greater Chicago area in early January.
The nearly 550,000-square-foot facility in North Aurora, Illinois, will primarily serve shippers of consumer-packaged goods, including food and beverage, health and beauty, and household products, as well as general retail merchandise.
