Stories about: Freightliner

In this groundbreaking awards program, Computerworld US honors 12 user companies and another dozen vendors that are leading the way in green-IT. These green leaders are virtualizing, videoconferencing, turning down the cooling systems and turning off the lights. Top honors this year went to Highmark.

IBM probably won't be asking American LaFrance for product endorsements anytime soon.

In-vehicle wireless services will make a sharp turn to the business side when General Motors (GM) previews telematics -- in-vehicle computer and Internet service -- solutions for its commercial vehicles at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas next week.

Call him the steward of Consolidated Freightways Corp.'s (CF) online services.

After abandoning a life of fasting and meditation for the material world, the title character in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha takes a job assisting a successful merchant, Kamaswami. Although Siddhartha has a knack for business and customer service, Kamaswami still questions his true dedication to increasing the merchant's profits. A friend advises the merchant, "Give him a third of the profits of the business which he conducts for you, but let him share the same proportion of losses if any arise. He will thus become more enthusiastic."

Transportation companies will be among the beneficiaries of a White House decision last week to make more accurate Global Positioning System (GPS) signals available to civilian users.

About one year ago, executives at Freightliner Corp. decided that they needed a better way to process, manage and, ultimately, publish information about the company's products and services.

A battle between Ford and General Motors late last month to dominate online purchasing in the auto industry morphed into a collaboration among the Big Three automakers, which joined forces to form a business-to-business Web-based trade exchange.