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Better late than never: Transportation infrastructure
Everyone agrees that this country's transportation infrastructure needs help. Our highway system in particular has been overused, underfunded and ignored...
Truck efficiency: More than MPG
Doubling the efficiency of trucks wouldn't be easy, but it can be done in a decade or less, at least according to a group of researchers and consultants....
NAFTA: What's a few trucks
Fifteen years after it was signed, the North American Free Trade Agreement has fundamentally changed our economic relationship with Mexico, and even its...
On closer inspection
I'm still amazed by technology, especially truck technology. We now have a system that allows a truck to monitor and diagnose its critical components...
Don't let up
Although they're fluctuating a bit from week to week, diesel prices are at their lowest levels in three and a half years. Was it just last summer when...
Eyes on the horizon
This has been a tough year for trucking and business in general. Unfortunately, the prospect for the new year is more of the same for at least the first six months...
Credit and freight
While most of the world seems stunned by the depth and breadth of the current economic crisis, it comes as no surprise to those in trucking. After enduring...
Politics as usual
It's getting harder and harder to ignore the meaningless posturing of politicians around election season. In the past I was able to shrug it off as simply...
Can bigger be better?
The drumbeat is still faint, but make no mistake about it the campaign to raise truck weight limits is well underway. The American Trucking Assns. and...
Taxes and tolls
With congestion pressuring most urban and suburban areas in the country and the federal government unable to properly fund normal repairs, no less highway...
Diesel's new math
You're finally resigned to the situation and accepted that this isn't a temporary phenomena: diesel prices are high and likely to continue climbing even...
Diesel's new math
While it's impossible to fully understand why diesel prices have risen so much, one thing is clear: whatever the cause, or causes, you have no control...
Diesel's new math
After leveling off at the beginning of the year, all of a sudden in mid-February diesel prices started climbing 4% or more every week...
Biodiesel grows up
Diesel can't be replaced once consumed because it's derived from long-dead fossils. Biodiesel comes from plants or animals, which farmers around the world...
Trucks are next
After a lot of political maneuvering that included a filibuster and threats of a Presidential veto, we finally got a slimmed down energy bill that's only...
