Category: UPS News

A United Parcel Service driver has delivered an Uplifting Puppy Story.

Jason Harcrow, 39, was on the job about 3 p.m. Tuesday in the area of East Hatch and Mountain View roads when he saw an old blue farm truck speeding off, leaving a small dog in a cloud of dust.

“I’m rolling up and I see it pull away in the dirt, going pretty fast, and the little dog is chasing it down the yellow line,” the Hughson resident said Wednesday morning. He’s seen enough roadkill in his 16 years with UPS to fear the animal quickly would be “a goner.”

Firm eyes regional cross-border traffic

United Parcel Service (UPS) is calling for removal of trade restrictions among Asean countries to boost economic growth in the region.

The global logistics provider is also urging Thai companies to take advantage of the easing of US customs policy.

Jim O’Gara, president for South Asia at UPS Asia-Pacific, said the region is one of the company’s growing markets with a high volume of business activities it could tap.

 

David Abney started working for the United Parcel Service as a teenager in 1974. Now, as CEO of the $90 billion, Atlanta-based company, he knows that in order to compete in the package delivery market, UPS has to be a technology company.

“One thing we all have in common is that there’s probably someone somewhere out there thinking of ways that they can replace many of our businesses right now, and we either embrace change, embrace technology and the trends we face, or someone’s going to do it for us,” Abney told business executives at an event in Boston on Thursday, hosted by Boston College’s CEO Club.