The Long Journey to Clean Trucks
What a long, strange, clean air trip it's been. No longer do commercial trucks belch black smoke, nor leave behind the thick cloying stench of diesel fuel in their wake...
A call to safety
A lot of noise has been made in the past year about what everyone is calling distracted driving...
Focus on fleets
Today's private fleet professional continues to function under immense pressure to deliver exceptional performance...
Small to head GM Fleet & Commercial
Brian Small has been appointed executive director of GM Fleet and Commercial Operations and will also assume responsibility for the company's International Product Center (IPC), according to General Motors Corp...
Stop digging
As we progress further into 2010, signs are pointing to a slow recovery process. But if you feel like you're still digging yourself into a deeper financial hole, the first step is to put the shovel down...
The new normal
Not only has the U.S. economy been decimated by the longest and deepest recession since the Great Depression lifted, but experts contend the recovery now under way is leading us straight into a new normal of economic activity to a level that will force consumers and businesses alike to adjust their activities to diminished expectations for the foreseeable future if not well beyond...
Improvement on the way
Slow momentum is building among freight volumes as inventories continue to trend downward towards equilibrium throughout the supply chain...
New equipment for a new age
Never judge a book by its cover. The newest crop of Class 8 trucks on the market don't look much different than those offered two, five or even ten years ago...
The waiting game
Sales and residual values of used trucks are expected to increase in 2010, but not by much and not enough to erase concerns about the health of the market going forward...
Fueled for growth
Despite the dismal economy, the owner of Oakland, ME-based Fabian Oil is happy to report the retailer of fuel and home heating oil remains solidly astride a growth curve...
The CARB quandary
Alas, poor CARB. The California Air Resources Board is charged with cleaning up some of the dirtiest air in the country to help protect the health of its citizens, surely a laudable goal. Many of those very citizens, however, are not feeling any warm rushes of gratitude for the Board's efforts. Far from it...
Plotting the recovery
When both consumer and business spending began evaporating in 2008 and then seemed to disappear completely last year, we turned to the spender of last resort the Federal government...
The long and short of it
What if the recession that now appears to be ending is actually two recessions the low point in a relatively short (five- to seven-year) economic cycle on top of the low point in a much longer (30-year) cycle...
Don't bank on it
Traffic congestion is a sexy topic for the general media everyone relates to pictures of stopped cars and trucks stretching to the horizon...
The peril of jobs
Oklahoma Dept. of Transportation Sec. Gary Ridley told the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has been a huge success...
