Coffee Break: FedEx exec builds trust, wins honor

Sept. 19, 2008 — FedEx recently announced its selection of Enigma’s 3C Platform to streamline maintenance and service operations for its entire fleet of aircraft. With more than 800 aircraft in its global fleet, FedEx is the largest airline in the world. More: continued here

The poor economy continues to take its toll on trucking companies as Tampa-based Quality Distribution estimated Tuesday that it would record a $15.5 million fourth quarter pretax loss and a $9.7 million pretax loss for all of 2007. More: continued here

Auctionbytes Bipartisan legislation may boost momentum to collect sales tax on online …NewsOK.comBut eBay, the online auction site, called the legislation “another Internet sales tax bill that fails to protect small business retailers using the Internet and will unbalance the playing field between giant retailers and small business competitors. …Opposing Internet giants: Amazon.com supports Web…

A routine Solano County agriculture inspection turned up a shipment of yellow delicious apple trees seriously infected with cedar-apple rust disease. The shipment was intercepted May 29, at the FedEx Home Delivery parcel facility in Benicia, and confirmed by California More: continued here

FedEx forecasts a 13% increase in packages it delivers this holiday season, largely due to a jump in online spending. More: continued here

Bundaberg News Mail eBay is selling Dysons for a bargainBundaberg News MailThis became bleedingly obvious late last year when people queued up and got grabby over the reasonably priced Dysons at Aldi (to the point where people were ripping them out of other customer's hands). Well it seems eBay is hoping to capitalise on that…