Transportation & Logistics

Cudahy-based transportation and logistics provider Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. today reported first quarter net income of $10.58 million, or 29 cents per diluted share, up 33.4 percent from $7.93 million, or 25 cents per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2012.

Cudahy-based Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced it has acquired Wando Trucking Charleston, S.C., and Adrian Carriers of Milan, Ill.

Over three dozen mayors across Wisconsin signed a “Statement of Support for Getting Wisconsin's Transportation Priorities Straight.”

Marinette-based Veriha Trucking Inc. has purchased Waupaca Trucking Inc.

U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Menomonee Falls) sent a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, criticizing the decision to close 149 air traffic control towers under the Contract Tower Program – including all eight such towers located in Wisconsin – due to cuts under sequestration.http://mbedit.sx.atl.publicus.com/apps/pbcsedit.dll/red#

For most people, the orange barrels along the highways of Wisconsin are annoying impediments to our next destination. To Craig Thompson, they are signs of progress.

My wife Michelle and I built our house about 12 years ago now. One of the things that appealed to me at the time about building new was not having the unexpected cost of home repairs that older houses can stick you with. (The other thing that appealed to me was that Michelle told me, “We are building new.”)

Marmy Clason's thrill of aviation is one fueled largely by her sense of accomplishment in having built her own aircraft.

Those sounds you may hear are the moans and groans of people engaged in various acts of heavy lifting. And I’m not talking about snow.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is hoping that reconstruction of the South 27th Street corridor between Drexel and College avenues can begin in two years.