Brad Jacobs Appointed VP of Technology and Customer Solutions at PLM Fleet

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Brad Jacobs Appointed VP of Technology and Customer Solutions at PLM Fleet

2025-03-25 02:49 Last Updated At：02:52

NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 24, 2025--

PLM Fleet, the nation’s largest technology-driven refrigerated trailer fleet management company, welcomes Brad Jacobs to its leadership team. Brad joins PLM with over 20 years of leadership experience in fleet management and customer solutions.

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"We are incredibly pleased to welcome Brad to PLM. His leadership will be instrumental in driving innovation, enhancing our customers’ experience, and delivering new solutions to our refrigerated fleet product portfolio. At PLM, we’re committed to expanding the boundaries of what’s possible with refrigerated trailer management, and Brad has a clear vision and proven track record of delivering transformative projects," said Keith Shipp, President and CEO of PLM Fleet.

Brad brings extensive leadership experience in the North American fleet industry, having most recently driven historic growth at Merchants Fleet, where he led product development, technology, and client consulting. At PLM, Brad will oversee technology and IT, marketing, and personalized customer solutions. He will be based at PLM’s Fleet Solutions Center headquarters in Newark, NJ.

"PLM's commitment to its clients is central to its success, driving innovation and encouraging creative thinking beyond traditional limits," said Jacobs. "I deeply appreciate this client-focused approach and am excited to join the company at such a pivotal moment, working alongside some of the brightest talents in the industry."

PLM Fleet, known for innovating refrigerated fleet management, leads the cold supply chain industry in customer-specific refrigerated solutions, and can be found at plmfleet.com.

About PLM Fleet, LLC

PLM Fleet ® is the largest nationwide, technology-driven company dedicated to refrigerated trailer leasing and cold supply chain solutions. Located in the state-of-the-art fleet solutions center in Newark, NJ, PLM Fleet has 33 locations nationwide and over 15,000 refrigerated trailers. Visit plmfleet.com to review all the financing, technology and services that help our customers improve fleet and product lifecycle efficiencies and cost savings in the cold supply chain.

Canadian Prime Minister Carney says trade war is hurting Americans, noting consumer confidence

2025-03-26 23:55 Last Updated At：03-27 00:02

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war is hurting Americans, noting that American consumer confidence is at a multi-year low.

Carney also said the kinship that exists between U.S. and Canada is under more strain than at any point in the two countries storied histories.

“His trade war is hurting American consumers and workers and it will hurt more. I see that American consumer confidence is at a multi-year low," Carney said while campaigning in Windsor, Ontario ahead of Canada's April 28 election.

The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its U.S consumer confidence index fell 7.2 points in March to 92.9, the fourth straight monthly decline and its lowest reading since January of 2021. Trump has plunged the U.S. into a global trade war — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.

Trump put 25% tariffs on Canada’s steel and aluminum and is threatening sweeping tariffs on all Canadian products — as well as all of America’s trading partners — on April 2.

“He wants to break us so America can own us,” Carney said. “And it will never ever happen because we just don’t look out for ourselves we look out for each other.”

Carney, former two-time central banker, made the comments while campaigning near the Ambassador Bridge, which is considered the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing, carrying 25% of all trade between the two countries. It plays an especially important role in auto manufacturing.

Carney said the bridge carries 140 billion Canadian dollars ($98 billion) in goods every year and CA$400 million ($281 million) per day.

"Now those numbers and the jobs and the paychecks that depend on that are in question," Carney said. “The relationship between Canada and the United States has changed. We did not change it.”

Carney announced Wednesday a CA$2 billion ($1.4 billion) “strategic response fund" that will protect Canadian auto jobs affected by Trump's tariffs.

The Liberal Party leader noted the bridge is especially important to Canada’s auto sector, the country’s second largest export. He said Canada's auto sector employs 125,000 jobs directly and almost another 500,000 jobs in related industries, many of them union jobs.

“Canada will be there for auto workers,” Carney said.

Earlier this month, Trump granted a one-month exemption on his stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for U.S. automakers, as worries persist the newly launched trade war could crush domestic manufacturing.

In the auto sector, parts can go back and forth across the Canada-U.S. border several times before being fully assembled in Ontario or Michigan.

Trump has declared a trade war on his northern neighbor and continues to call for Canada to become the 51st state, a position that has infuriated Canadians. The American president has threatened economic coercion in his annexation threats and suggested the border is a fictional line.

The new prime minister, sworn in March 14, still hasn’t had a phone call with Trump. It is unusual for a U.S. president and Canadian prime minister to go so long without talking after a new leader takes office.