HOS rule retains 11-hour daily driving limit
The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has released its long-awaited hours-of-service rules, choosing to leave the 11-hour drive time alone in the final rule, set to be published in the Federal Register next week...
Research deal opens global doors for Shell
Shell Lubricants recently hammered out a two-year research and development partnership with China’s State Key Laboratory of Tribology at Tsinghua University, aimed at advancing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) lubrication science...
Truckers bring holiday cheer, necessities to needy kids
Truckers for Kids, a holiday toy drive started by truckers nine years ago, has grown from providing gifts for a dozen children to now serving more than 125 needy children in southeast Missouri...
Phillip Kane promoted to vp of Goodyear’s commercial tire business
Phillip Kane has been named vice president of Goodyear’s North American Tire commercial tire business, succeeding Joe Copeland, who is leaving the company...
November tonnage outpaces forecast
November’s freight tonnage numbers, as reported by the American Trucking Assns. (ATA) today, bettered the October forecast of analyst Peter Nesvold of Jefferies & Co. Inc...
Big rigs to get holiday price break on Texas toll roads
The Texas Dept. of Transportation has a holiday gift for truckers using Texas 130 and Texas 45 Southeast in the form of considerable toll discounts. ...
Moderate growth expected for 2012
The global economy is expected to grow next year, albeit slowly, with the U.S. projected to follow the same positive glide path – a path illuminated in part by healthy freight volumes...
TCA seeks industry support for “Highway Angel” music video
The Truckload Carrier’s Assn. is asking members and everyone in the trucking industry to support trucking’s image by linking to a new “Highway Angel” music video by Lindsay Lawler that is now live on YouTube...
Bendix Wingman with ACB now a T800 option
The Bendix Wingman ACB (active cruise with braking) is now an available factory option on the Kenworth T800...
Reyco Granning names president
David J. Compton has been named president of Reyco Granning...
Dupré Logistics names vp of operations
Dupré Logistics has named Jeff Colonna vice president of operations. Colonna will oversee the operations of all Dupré business groups...
Polar Tank Trailer and IAM ink labor deal
Polar Tank Trailer LLC and the International Assns. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union have reached an agreement on a new five-year labor contract, according to the trailer maker...
Blizzard causes traffic nightmares in Midwest
A deadly blizzard hit sections of the Southwest and Great Plains Monday dropping up to 18 in. of snow, burying sections of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado under a blanket of heavy snow...
ACT: Demand situation favorable despite Class 8 slip
According to the latest State of the Industry report released by ACT Research Co. (ACT), after rising to their third-highest net order volume of the year in October, Class 8 orders fell “below trend” in November, dropping to their second lowest volume in 2011. However, despite the decline, in ACT’s view “the demand situation remains favorable.”...
Route optimization software updated
Telogis has released an updated version of its Telogis Route 3.0 route-optimization software. Delivered as a Software-as-a-Service product, Route 3.0 utilizes Telogis’ patent-pending “advanced territories” technology...
Mobile workflow solutions added to CoPilot software
ALK Technologies and Apacheta Corp. have reached agreement to provide mobile enterprise applications with integrated voice-guided GPS navigation and vehicle-specific routing...
Financial impact of possible closure of highway in the billions
A U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security study confirms the national economic significance of a stretch of Louisiana Highway 1 (LA 1) which is vulnerable to flooding and prone to road closures...
Volvo, Mack promote executives
As part of global realignment of Sweden’s AB Volvo’s truck brands in the Americas, two key executives are being promoted to new positions within the region...
Diesel, gasoline prices keep declining
Despite an increase in holiday travel and oil market uncertainty created by the sudden death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, diesel and gasoline prices continue to fall in the U.S...
Bill would give DOT final say on tolls
Heavy toll hikes imposed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) earlier this year is the impetus behind a Congressional legislative effort now underway to redirect the bulk of tolling power in the U.S. to the Dept. of Transportation (DOT)....
Schneider offers intermodal driver academy
Starting in January with the opening of a new “training academy,” Schneider National will take a “focused approach” to training drivers for its Intermodal division. The customized training, said the provider of truckload, intermodal and logistics services, will “put experienced new hires in the driver's seat and at the rail yard.”...
Dealer buy expands Rush presence across Texas
Rush Enterprises has acquired certain assets of West Texas Peterbilt, a Peterbilt dealership group with five locations in Texas. Rush said the acquisition expands the company's Rush Truck Center commercial vehicle dealership network to 70 locations in 14 states. The purchase price for the assets of West Texas Peterbilt was approximately $25 million....
Wingfoot opens 41st Truck Care Center
Having just opened two new Wingfoot Truck Care Centers last month, Wingfoot Commercial Tire Systems LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., has opened its 41st Wingfoot Truck Care Center, a full-service facility in Berkshire, OH. ...
OOIDA calls members to action to fight red light cameras
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Assn. has issued a call to action to its members to protest efforts to extend the use of red-light cameras in Pittsburg and expand the ticketing program to other Pennsylvania cities....
Maryland work zone cameras nab more than 750,000 drivers
More than 750,000 tickets have been issues to motorists nabbed by cameras for violating speed limits in Maryland highway work zones in the past two years, bringing in more than $30 million in revenue to the state, according to a report in the Washington Examiner. ...
Rair to offer ITI’s Pro-Tread training
Rair, a division of DriveCam, will offer Instructional Technologies Inc.’s (ITI) Pro-Tread online safety training. ...
PeopleNet’s Konezny to head global Trimble division
Trimble has appointed PeopleNet founder & CEO Ron Konezny as gm of Trimble’s worldwide Transportation and Logistics (T&L) Division. ...
Massive truck-lobbying effort aimed at Capitol Hill
In the face of pending legislation and advocacy issues that could dramatically raise transportation and supply chain costs, more than 10 industry associations have agreed to participate in a pro-trucking “Washington fly-in” on Feb. 1. ...
Truck sales slowed in November
While November deliveries of medium- and heavy-duty trucks in the U.S. were up 39.1% compared to the same month last year, they slowed significantly from October’s 62.8% sales jump, according to WardsAuto. However Nov. sales of Class 8 trucks alone continued at a torrid pace, bypassing 2010 numbers by 70%. ...
ATA: HOS ‘obsession’ prevents progress on pressing safety concerns
With the Obama administration currently weighing what he calls “unnecessary changes to the current hours-of-service rules,” American Trucking Assns. president & CEO Bill Graves said the focus on truck driver hours by advocacy groups and the current leadership at the Dept. of Transportation has prevented progress on a number of other, more pressing safety concerns....
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