“Ultimately, Rush Truck Centres of Canada will provide our cross-border transportation customers with access to the largest and most comprehensive franchised commercial vehicle service network in the United States,” said Kevin G. For example, while our customers should still expect the same great service they are accustomed to receiving at all of our locations, initially, we will not have Tallman Group’s customer information integrated into our operating systems in the United States, or vice versa,” Rush explained. I would ask existing cross-border service customers of Tallman Group in Canada and Rush Truck Centers in the United States to be patient as we integrate operations to provide you with seamless cross-border service. However, please note that it will take time to integrate the dealership operating systems we use in the United States into Rush Truck Centres of Canada. “We will provide our customers in Canada with best-in-class service by combining Rush Enterprises’ advanced dealership operating systems with Tallman Group’s operational expertise. Tallman Group is consistently recognized as one of the best performing International Truck dealership groups in North America, and we believe they are the ideal partner for our first foreign investment,” said Rush. “This transaction represents Rush Enterprises’ first investment in dealership operations outside of the United States, and it would not have been possible without the right partner. “Rusty” Rush, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Rush Enterprises, Inc. “I am pleased to announce the closing of our previously announced investment in Rush Truck Centres of Canada Limited,” said W.M. Rush Enterprises will account for this transaction as an equity method investment for financial reporting purposes. Tallman as Chief Executive Officer and Roger Poirier, CFA, as President. Rush Truck Centres of Canada Limited will be led by Kevin G. Tallman Group achieved revenues of CAD $370 million and delivered close to 2,000 commercial vehicles in 2018, making it the largest International Truck dealer in Canada and one of the largest International Truck dealer groups in North America. Rush Truck Centres of Canada Limited will operate Tallman Group’s network of 14 International Truck full-service dealerships throughout the Province of Ontario. (NASDAQ: RUSHA & RUSHB), which operates the largest network of commercial vehicle dealerships in North America, announced today that one of its subsidiaries has acquired 50 percent of the equity interest in Rush Truck Centres of Canada Limited, which recently acquired the operating assets of Tallman Group, the largest International Truck dealer in Canada. 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Rush Enterprises, Inc. Based on these and other factors, the BLM determined a broader environmental analysis would be required.SAN ANTONIO, Feb. In a statement, the bureau said that “drilling at Conglomerate Mesa raised natural and cultural resource concerns from the public, Tribes, and other agencies. In March, the Bureau of Land Management effectively froze the project, which would require dozens of miles of new roads in addition to the construction of the pit system which would rely on 30 drill sites, more than the company originally proposed. Bald spots along the mesa’s rolling plateau are evidence of the company’s drill tests. “And there is none.”Ī Canadian company called K2 Gold has proposed a major project to mine Conglomerate Mesa through an open-pit system, which uses a chemical process that in this case involves cyanide leaching through earth to drag out gold. “It all comes down to water, as does everything in the American West,” said Wendy Schneider, executive director of the Friends of the Inyo, a nonprofit seeking to protect Conglomerate Mesa.

To mine these often remote areas requires a different process than the one used in the Sierra foothills, one that is more water-intensive. “Don’t Mine Death Valley’s Doorstep.”Ĭompanies are exploring in and around the Walker Lane, part of a geological fault that roughly follows the California -Nevada border. Route 395, as it cuts through the closest town of Lone Pine. “Protect Conglomerate Mesa,” reads a billboard along U.S. The mesa is in the middle of nowhere but silent desert, land stretching between the state’s highest peaks and the depths of Death Valley.

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