Based on the grading by truck fleet executives, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) safetycompliance program at best ranks a “Gentleman’s C.” Put another way, fleets rank the two-year-old program highly for all its intents and purposes—but poorly for its forethought and for how slowly its deficits are being addressed yet alone corrected. Indeed, at the moment trucking is awaiting final word of “planned improvements” FMCSA will make to CSA....More

CHENNAI, INDIA. With expectations that India will be the world’s second largest truck market by 2020, Daimler Trucks has invested over $900 million here to launch a new brand with eight initial new models built at a green-field plant capable of producing 36,000 trucks a year....More

Police using a helicopter to find a stolen 26-ft.-long truck spotted a man using a bulldozer to bury the vehicle in a western New York sand pit, according to a report in the “Weird News” section of the Huffington Post. The box truck was stolen from a business in Wayne County, NY, and police were tipped that the vehicle may have been taken to Murray, NY, 25 mi. west of Rochester....More

Is natural gas just too good to be true? That’s what trucking companies large and small are asking themselves as they weigh the costs associated with switching to either compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG) against the ever-rising price of diesel fuel, which has hovered above the $4/gal. mark since late February of this year....More