Built for action
When Gerald Pelletier Inc., a family-owned firm that's been logging the North Woods of Maine for three generations and is featured on the Discovery Channel's American Loggers show, decided they needed new trucks that could both get the job done and look good on camera, they turned to Mack and went Titan...
Eye this
The all-new Volvo S60 will be launched at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, but blind Turkish artist Esref Armagan was invited last year to Volvo Car Corp...
Good news for some
Like a dawdling child, the economic recovery seems to be impossible to hurry along...
A good mix of technology
Oldcastle's Architectural Products Group (APG) is the leading North American manufacturer of concrete masonry, lawn, garden and paving products and a regional leader in clay brick, operating at more than 200 locations with 5,800 employees...
Pushing the reset button
The forecasts that have been presented for the trucking industry for 2010 and even into 2011 and 2012 are not the brightest. The key point to keep in...
The slow dance of the three trucks
The U.S. government in 2007 put in place the Cross-Border Trucking Demonstration Project. The pilot program was eventually killed this March when Congress...
Border skirmish simmers
It all seemed to be a done deal. But the cross-border trucking program established by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) back in September 2007 got a fiscal stake driven through its heart in early March of this year via an addendum authored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) to an appropriations bill...
Tale of two countries: Mexico trucking
Mexico. Trucking. Utter those two words together and most U.S. truckers will instantly think of the political football that's been kicked around for years...
Lifting the load: Truck weight limits
Weight is a very big deal to Jason Hancock. As president of Hancock Petroleum a third-generation, family-owned fuel hauler he says his company's tractor-trailers...
Rethinking the shop
Quality and quantity should never be mutually exclusive in the maintenance shop. Just as fleet owners ignore either or both at great peril, they can't...
Outlook '09 Tight squeeze
For truck fleets, it's the crunch time of all crunch times. Late last year, the recession that everyone in trucking had long known to be the true state...
Creating a Culture of Safety
Fleet safety professionals think about safety, about managing risk all day, every day. It is their job. The best of the best, however, also work tirelessly...
Making bigger better
The way Tim Clinton sees it, if federal size and weight limits for commercial trucks increase, insurance rates are going to increase as well pretty much...
TIRES: From the lab to the road
Beyond being oohed and aahed by tread design, there isn't much to get excited about a new tire ready for the road from just looking at it. But step into...
BROKERING FREIGHT: Two sides of the coin
The middlemen who match shipments with trucks have been seeing their ranks swell of late, thanks in large part to web-based software programs that have...
