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JR Motorsports
JR Motorsports (pronounced "Junior Motorsports") is an American professional stock car racing team based in Mooresville, North Carolina, co-owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kelley Earnhardt Miller, L. W. Miller, L.W. Miller, and Rick Hendrick. It currently competes in the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series, CARS Late Model Stock Tour, and occasionally in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series. The team fields the No. 40 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 part-time at the NASCAR Cup Series for Justin Allgaier. The team also fields four full-time entries in the Xfinity Series: the No. 1 Chevrolet Camaro (sixth generation), Chevrolet Camaro SS full-time for Carson Kvapil, the No. 7 Camaro full-time for Allgaier, the No. 8 Camaro full-time for Sammy Smith, the No. 88 Camaro full-time for Connor Zilisch, as well as the No. 9 part-time for multiple drivers. The team fields the No. 88 Camaro full-time in the CARS Late Model Stock Tour for Connor Hall (racing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Earnhardt Jr
Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. (born October 10, 1974) is an American professional stock car racing driver, team owner, and broadcaster. A third-generation driver, he is the son of the late 7-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt and relative to many former and current drivers in the NASCAR ranks. Since retiring from full-time competition after the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, 2017 season, he has competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 88 Chevrolet Camaro for his team, JR Motorsports. He became a color commentator for ''NASCAR on NBC'' in 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, 2018 after retiring from driving full-time in NASCAR. After his contract with NBC expired after the 2023 season, he left for ''Amazon'' and ''NASCAR on TNT, TNTs new NASCAR coverage in NASCAR's next NASCAR on television and radio, TV contract that begins in 2025. Earnhardt Jr. drove the No. 8 Budweiser-sponsored Chevrolet for Dale Earnhardt, Inc. (DEI), his father's te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Larson
Kyle Miyata Larson (born July 31, 1992) is an American professional racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 5 Chevrolet ZL1 for Hendrick Motorsports, part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 17 Chevrolet SS for the same team and the No. 88 Chevrolet SS for JR Motorsports. He also competes part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 07 Chevrolet Silverado RST for Spire Motorsports, and part-time in the NTT IndyCar Series, driving the No. 17 Chevrolet for Arrow McLaren. Before and throughout his stock car racing career, Larson has been highly successful in dirt track racing, with wins in several prestigious events including the Kings Royal, Knoxville Nationals, and the Chili Bowl Nationals. He also won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2015 with CGR. Larson was named one of NASCAR's 75 Greatest Drivers in 2023. Racing career Early career Born on July 31, 1992, in Elk Grove, California, Kyle Miyata Larson a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axalta Coating Systems
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd., also known as simply Axalta, is an American company specializing in coatings in a wide variety of industrial applications, materials and sectors, including automotive paints. The company is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and incorporated in Bermuda. Axalta develops and manufactures coatings for light and commercial vehicles, industrial, and refinish applications. The firm does business in 130 countries, has nearly 13,000 employees, and has more than 100,000 customers. Axalta traces its origins to the German firm Herberts Gmbh, which began in 1866 coating carriages before moving to automotive painting. Through later mergers the company became DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC), part of the American DuPont chemical empire, and was rebranded as Axalta Coating Systems after being purchased by The Carlyle Group in 2013. Axalta went public on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2014 and since then has become fully independent. Carlyle Group exit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WeatherTech
WeatherTech is an American manufacturer of automobile accessories headquartered in Bolingbrook, Illinois. History WeatherTech was founded in 1989 by current CEO David MacNeil, who did not appreciate the quality of vehicle floor mats as they did not well-contain dirt and were not easy to clean. At the time, MacNeil was the vice president of sales at high-performance vehicle company AMG, now a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz. His company began importing accessories made in England and selling them in the United States when in 1994 he found a contract manufacturer and then opened his first plants in the Chicago suburbs. Products Among its other products, WeatherTech is primarily known for its FloorLiner brand of heavy-duty rubber floor mats, which it also manufactures for companies such as Volkswagen and Kia. Other products made by the company include other heavy-duty floor mats and trunk liners, windshield sun shades, mudflaps, and cupholder accessories. WeatherTech claim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kubota
is a Japanese multinational corporation based in Osaka. It was established in 1890. The corporation produces many products including tractors and other agricultural machinery, Heavy equipment, construction equipment, engines, vending machines, Pipe (material), pipe, valves, Casting (metalworking), cast metal, pumps, and equipment for water purification, sewage treatment and air conditioning. Kubota engines are in both Diesel fuel, diesel and gasoline or spark ignition forms, ranging from the tiny 0.276-liter engine to 6.1-liter engine, in both air-cooled and-liquid cooled designs, naturally-aspirated and forced induction. Cylinder configurations are from single cylinder to inline six cylinders, with single cylinder to four-cylinder being the most common. Those engines are widely used in agricultural equipment, construction equipment, tractors, and marine propulsion. The corporation is listed on the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Topix, TOPIX 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quaker State
Quaker State is an American brand of motor oils, owned by Shell USA, the US-based division of Shell plc. The former Quaker State Oil Refining Company had been constituted in 1924 after the Eastern Refining Co. acquired rights to the ''Quaker State'' brand name to the Phinny Brothers Oil Company, which had been producing the Quaker lubricants since 1912, gaining reputation in the U.S. after a deal signed with automotive manufacturer Franklin (automobile), Franklin in 1914. In 1931, it became the "Quaker State Corporation" after merging with another 18 oil companies. In 2002, Shell acquired Pennzoil, Pennzoil-Quaker State for $1.8 billion in cash and $1.1 billion in debt. The ''Quaker State'' name is derived from the nickname for Pennsylvania, the state founded by William Penn, an adherent of the Religious Society of Friends, Quaker religion. The Pennzoil-Quaker State brands are sold under SOPUS Products with the address of Shell's office in Houston, Texas. History Brand backg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confie
Confie is an American private insurance company that provides auto insurance, home insurance, life insurance, commercial insurance, and related products. Confie is the ninth largest independent property and casualty insurance agency in the United States as of 2020. '' Freeway Insurance'', ''InsureOne Insurance'' and ''Bluefire Insurance'' are their better known brands. History Initially known as ''Confie Seguros'', the company was founded in 2008 by Mordy Rothberg, Joseph Waked and John Addeo. They aimed to make Confie a national insurance distribution company focusing on the Hispanic market. Addeo initially served as the company’s CEO before stepping down in January 2012, upon which Waked assumed CEO duties. Confie expanded in part by acquiring insurance brokers throughout the United States. One of the company’s first acquisitions was Westline Insurance, which became the basis for their West Coast operations and their Freeway Insurance brand. In December 2023, with the ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peterbilt
Peterbilt Motors Company is an List of American truck manufacturers, American truck manufacturer specializing in the production of heavy-duty (Truck classification#Class 8, Class 8) and medium-duty (Classes 5–7) commercial vehicles. The namesake of company founder T.A. Peterman, T. A. "Al" Peterman, it was established in 1939 from the acquisition of Fageol, Fageol Truck and Motor Company, and has operated as part of Paccar, PACCAR since 1958. Competing alongside sister division Kenworth, Kenworth Truck Company, it sustains one of the longest-running marketplace rivalries in Trucking industry in the United States, American truck manufacturing. Peterbilt trucks are identified by a red oval emblem that has been in use since 1953. A "bird"-style hood ornament has also been used on conventional-cab trucks since 1965. Headquartered in Denton, Texas, the company also manufactures trucks at PACCAR facilities in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, Canada and Mexicali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilot Flying J
Pilot Travel Centers LLC, trade name, doing business as Pilot Flying J, is a North American chain of truck stops in the United States and Canada. The company is based in Knoxville, Tennessee. The company is owned by Berkshire Hathaway. The company operates truck stops under the Pilot Travel Centers, Flying J Travel Plaza, ONE9 Fuel Network, and Mr. Fuel brands. History Pilot Company, Pilot Corporation opened its first truck stop in 1981. On November 15, 1993, Pilot entered a joint venture with Marathon Petroleum Company, and all 60 or so Pilot Truck Stops were renamed Pilot Travel Centers. Starting in mid-2002, Marathon converted many of its Speedway LLC, Speedway truck stops, to the Pilot Travel Center moniker. In 2003, Pilot Travel Centers bought the Williams Companies, Williams Truck Stop chain. The number of stops more than quadrupled. In 2008, Pilot bought out Marathon's interest in the business and formed a partnership with CVC Capital Partners, an international private ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TMC, Transportation Management Center
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. is an American transportation company that includes third-party logistics (3PL). The company offers freight transportation, transportation management, brokerage and warehousing. It offers truckload, less than truckload, air freight, intermodal, and ocean transportation. Company overview The company is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with more than 300 offices and over 15,000 employees in North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. The company has contractual relationships with over 66,000 transportation companies, including motor carriers, railroads, air freight, and ocean carriers. It also provides services including supply chain analysis, freight consolidation, core carrier program management, and information reporting. C.H. Robinson also owns Robinson Fresh, which buys and sells produce to the foodservice industry through independent produce growers and suppliers. C.H. Robinson's transportation of goods accounts for about 94% o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellmann's And Best Foods
Hellmann's and Best Foods are American brand, brand names that are used for the same line of mayonnaise, ketchup, Mustard (condiment), mustard, sauce, salad dressing, condiments and other food products. They have been owned by the British multinational company Unilever since 2000. The Hellmann's brand is sold in the Middle East, the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, in Latin America, Europe, Australia, Canada, India, and Pakistan. The Best Foods brand is sold in the United States west of the Rocky Mountains, in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Hellmann's and Best Foods are marketed in a similar way. Their logos and websites resemble one another, and they have the same slogan: "Bring out the best". Both brands were previously sold by the U.S.-based Bestfoods Corporation, which also sold several other food products in addition to Hellmann's and Best Foods mayonnaise. Bestfoods, known as Ingredion, CPC international before 1997, was acquired by Unilev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roto-Rooter
Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Water Cleanup (formerly called Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Drain Service) is a plumbing company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company, founded in 1935, originally specialized in clearing tree roots and other obstructions from sanitary sewer, sewer lines. , it employs thousands of plumbers, and service technicians throughout the US and Canada who provide plumbing and sewer and water damage cleanup services. Roto-Rooter also employs manufacturing technicians and assembly workers at its manufacturing plant in West Des Moines, Iowa. The plant manufactures the company's patented, proprietary Roto-Rooter sewer and drain cleaning machines as well as sewer and drain cleaning cables and blades. Roto-Rooter is one of the two subsidiary divisions of the publicly traded Chemed Corporation, of which the other one is a hospice care provider VITAS Healthcare. Early years In the late 1920s, Samuel Oscar Blanc (1883–1964) was cleaning a blocked sewer at his son's (Milton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
