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In September 2008, Reed Elsevier purchased data aggregator ChoicePoint. [12] This acquisition included an insurance business and the C.L.U.E. database, an underwriting database for the U.S. auto insurance market. LexisNexis completed the migration of public records to HPCC Systems the same year. Reed assumed $600 million in debt with the ...
The International Registration Plan (IRP) is a truck registration reciprocity agreement between the contiguous United States and Canadian provinces that provides apportioned payments of registration fees, based on the total distance operated in participating jurisdictions, to them. IRP's fundamental principle is to promote and encourage use of ...
Derek V. Smith was the CEO of ChoicePoint from 1997 until its acquisition by Reed Elsevier.Previously, Smith was an executive for Equifax.He holds degrees from Penn State and Georgia Tech.
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The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 deregulated transportation industries in America and increased competition for logistics providers and shippers. [11] [13] C.H. Robinson created a contract carrier program, expanded its freight contract operations, and established itself as a middleman sourcing operation for shippable goods. [citation needed]
In 2001, Carrier was the "world's largest manufacturer of air-conditioning, heating, and refrigerator equipment" with a "total employment of 42,600" and a revenue of $8.9 billion. Carrier announced that it would be closing its DeWitt, New York plant. This led to the layoff of 1,000 employees. [10]
A competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), in the United States and Canada, is a telecommunications provider company (sometimes called a "carrier") competing with other, already established carriers, generally the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC).
There was no means to select between rival carriers and little room for vanity numbering; a subscriber would need three separate numbers to be reachable from Canada, US interstate and US intrastate. A "data base communication call processing method" [ 2 ] patented by Roy P. Weber of Bell Labs , and implemented by AT&T in 1982, broke the link ...