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Penske Truck Rental will keep you moving in June – take a picture, and you can win a $100 Shell gas card.

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Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer and kicks off the 2012 moving season as one of the busiest moving weekends of the year for the moving truck rental and self-storage industries. Penske Truck Rental and self-storage tech start-up SpareFoot are teaming up to offer increased convenience and services for savvy do-it-yourself movers.

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Penske Truck Rental is sponsoring the secondSea to Shining Sea cross-country bicycle ride with wounded warriors from America’s military. The event is a creation of World T.E.A.M. Sports, a non-profit that organizes athletic events for disabled and able bodied citizens.

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Penske will be a part of tomorrow’s Milicruit online career fair.Milicruit is a website devoted to pairing U.S. military veterans with prospective employers. It will take place on Wednesday, May 23, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET. Penske human resources staff will host real-time chats with prospective associates.

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Penske Truck Leasing is among the major sponsors of the upcoming Alternative Fuels Renewable Energies Council Sustainability Summit. The event includes executives from leading private and Fortune 500 companies, where sustainability improvement efforts will be highlighted. Penske executives will also be present.

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Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P. (“PTL”) and its wholly owned subsidiary PTL Finance Corporation today announced that they have issued an aggregate of $1.75 billion in senior notes in two equally sized tranches of notes with three- and five-year maturities. The net proceeds from the sale of the notes will be used to refinance existing PTL debt. The offering was managed by J.P. Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo Securities.

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In an age where people can post their thoughts to the world on social media platforms via their smartphones while waiting in line for a morning coffee, Penske Truck Rental has responded by creating a team to help connect with and respond to customers in these forums.

Formed last summer, the Penske Cares team observes and responds to online social network discussions via Twitter, Facebook, blogs and other forums from Penske’s headquarters in Reading, Pa., in an effort to assist current and potential consumer truck rental customers. The team is part of the company’s central reservations call center and collaborates very closely with the company’s 24/7 roadside assistance call center, and corporate communications as well.

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Penske will participate in two Milicruit online careers fairs during the month of May.Milicruit is a website devoted to pairing U.S. military veterans with prospective employers through online employment fairs.

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In an effort to recognize Earth Day on Sunday,Penske Truck Leasing, Penske Truck Rental and Penske Logistics encourages everyone in the transportation and logistics sectors to consider joining the EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership to help further reduce fuel consumption needs and emissions.

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Penske Truck Leasing and Penske Logistics are looking for qualified candidates at career fairs nationwide to join our diverse and talented team.

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Penske Truck Rental and Penske Logistics will be sponsoring star IndyCar driver Helio Castroneves for several races this season. Castroneves is in his 13th year withTeam Penske, and is a driver in the IZOD IndyCar Series.

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An important, yet sometimes overlooked component of the do-it-yourself move is including the needs of children. For the family’s youngest members – who may only know one place as home – a move can be scary and upsetting.

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Penske Truck Leasing’s fleet maintenance and recruiting teams will host career fairs in April at schools nationwide to filldiesel technician and customer service representative positions.

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Industry analysts expect diesel prices to increase in the next six months and remain volatile throughout 2012 and into 2013. They also expect to see a wide range of prices throughout the U.S., driven primarily by demand within the U.S. and abroad.

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It has been almost two years since the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) launched the new safety protocol Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA), but motor carriers and the third-party companies that hire those carriers are still working to better understand the program and decipher how it applies to them.

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