Tanker trucks laden with oil are journeying almost 500 miles to pipeline and rail terminals. It’s a phenomenon that Ken Boettcher, president of Three Star Trucking Ltd. in Alida, Saskatchewan, started to see three or four months ago when oil shippers around Kindersley, near the Alberta border, began requesting trucks to move their crude, in some cases, as far south as North Dakota.
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Schneider CEO Chris Lofgren to Retire
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Schneider CEO Chris Lofgren to Retire
Wisconsin-based Schneider National announced Oct. 30 that CEO Chris Lofgren will be retiring in April 2019, and that he will be replaced by current Chief Operating Officer Mark Rourke.