Customers are starting to place orders for Tesla Inc.’s new all-electric Semi truck, with retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. preordering for both its U.S. and Canadian units.
November 17, 2017Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel
Wal-Mart Joins Retailers Planning to Try Out Tesla Truck
Business
Wal-Mart Acquires NYC Delivery Firm
Wal-Mart Stores has purchased Parcel, a same-day and last-mile delivery firm in New York City, as part of the retailer’s effort to enhance delivery services in dense urban markets.
October 9, 2017Safety
Having Trouble Hearing at NTDC? Blame Wal-Mart’s Fans
ORLANDO, Fla. — Wal-Mart fans cheered their drivers at every turn at the National Truck Driving Championships.
August 10, 2017Business
Wal-Mart Will Punish Its Suppliers for Delivering Early
Long known for squeezing its vast network of suppliers, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is about to step up the pressure. The focus this time is delivery scheduling, and the company’s not messing around. Two days late? That’ll earn you a fine. One day early? That’s a fine, too. Right on-time but goods aren’t packed properly? You guessed it — fined.
July 12, 2017Business
Wal-Mart Asks Employees to Deliver Packages on Their Way Home
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is testing a program that sends store employees to deliver online orders at the end of their shifts, a new push by the world’s biggest retailer to use its large physical footprint to match Amazon.com Inc.’s convenient options for web purchases.
June 1, 2017Business
Wal-Mart Sets Ambitious Goal for Reducing Emissions in Supply Chain
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has set a goal of eliminating 1 billion tons of emissions from its supply chain by 2030, an effort dubbed Project Gigaton that will focus on reducing fuel use by suppliers and customers.
April 20, 2017TCA
New Wal-Mart Distribution Center to Impact Port of Mobile Traffic, I-10 Traffic
Interstate 10 in coastal Alabama is expected to grow even busier next spring as a new wave of big trucks rolls onto the roadway. Those 600 or more trucks will be moving back and forth daily between the Port of Mobile and Wal-Mart's new supersize regional distribution center west of Mobile in the Grand Bay area.
March 31, 2017Business
Deal Lets Driver of Wal-Mart Truck in Tracy Morgan Crash Avoid Jail Time
The man who was driving the Wal-Mart truck that crashed into actor-comedian Tracy Morgan's van on the New Jersey Turnpike in 2014, killing one and injuring several others, changed his plea to guilty Nov. 29 and could avoid jail time.
November 29, 2016Business
Jury Awards California Wal-Mart Truck Drivers $55 Million in Back Pay
A California federal jury on Nov. 23 handed down a $55 million verdict against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for failing to pay about 850 of its truck drivers all of the compensation to which they were entitled.
November 23, 2016Business
Wal-Mart’s White Captures National Truck Driving Championship
INDIANAPOLIS — At a practice session about a week before veteran Wal-Mart Transportation driver Charles “Mike” White hopped into a 3-axle truck to negotiate the nerve-wracking National Truck Driving Championships “skills” course, fellow company driver and last year’s grand champ Ronald Emenheiser Sr. made a prediction.
August 22, 2016