Grote dedicates new facility
Grote Electronics, a division of Grote Industries, has dedicated a new 40,000 square ft. manufacturing facility...
Xtra introduces new tracking features
Xtra Lease has introduced a new feature to its trailer tracking service, enabling users to set up customized groups they can assign leased trailers to ...
Kenworth adds lightweight brake option
Kenworth Truck Company has announced its new lightweight aluminum hub and Splined Disc rotor package as a front and rear axle option...
Aeris teams with Earthwave Technologies
Wireless communications service provider Aeris has announced it will be providing wireless connectivity, billing, and hosting services to Earthwave Technologies ...
Bendix appoints new CFO
Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems has appointed Rick Nork vp & CFO. Nork had held the CFO post on an interim basis for the past four months. ...
Hennessey creates three from one
Finance company Hennessey Capital Southeast has forged three new businesses from the ashes of a former client, bankrupt trucking firm Nuco Express: HenneCold Storage...
GSX gets loan
Truckload carrier Great Southern Xpress (GSX) has received a $2 million small business administration (SBA) loan from Chicago banking giant Bridge Business Bancorp...
McLeod introduces two new modules
McLeod Software has announced the availability of two new modules, the Container Module for Truckload Carriers, for its LoadMaster enterprise transportation management system...
SKF taps McEntee
Don McEntee has been appointed vp of marketing of the SKF Vehicle Service Market, North America Business Unit. In this new position...
TRALA elects Anderson to board
The Truck Renting and Leasing Assn. (TRALA) has announced that Scott Anderson, Rush Enterprises senior vp of finance, insurance, and leasing, has been unanimously elected to serve on TRALA’s board of directors...
NTDA gives scholarship
The National Trailer Dealers Association (NTDA) has awarded Lipscomb University freshman Kyle Wiehe its annual scholarship...
UPS’ Eskew to retire
United Parcel Service’s chairman & CEO Mike Eskew plans to step down at the end of the year. Scott Davis, currently the carrier’s vice chairman and CFO, will replace him...
Arrow Truck announces driver initiative
Arrow Truck has announced Back On The Road, an initiative that will provide one owner-operator not currently driving due to unfortunate circumstances a second chance...
GeoLogic offers CDU training
GeoLogic Solutions has announced an alliance with Instructional Technologies Inc. (ITI) to offer in-vehicle training over its new Color Display Unit (CDU) touch-screen display...
H3R introduces fire suppression system
H3R Perfomance, Inc. has introduced the HalGuard Automatic Fire Suppression System, featuring an EPA-approved “clean” extinguishing agent...
Ryder promotes Sanchez
Ryder System, Inc. announced Robert E. Sanchez has been named executive vp and CFO, replacing Mark T. Jamieson, who is leaving to become CFO at Atlanta...
SkyBitz names new CEO
Dr. Homaira Akbari has been appointed CEO of satellite-based asset tracking provider SkyBitz. She has also been elected to the company’s board of directors....
TCA offers audio conference
The Truckload Carrier’s Association (TCA) will be offering an audio conference entitled “A to Z: Controlling Health Care Costs,” ...
Eaton to add vocational UltraShifts
By Justin Carretta, online news editor
Eaton Corp. plans to expand its UltraShift automated manual transmission line to address specific vocational trucking markets with releases scheduled for mid-2008...
DOT Puts on Truck Inspection Show for Congress
By Larry Kahaner, Washington Editor
With Teamsters staffers shouting protests from behind yellow police tape, an inspector from the Maryland State Police in front of US DOT headquarters did a safety check of two trucks ...
ACS announces InCab Scanning
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) has announced the launch of InCab Scanning, an addition to their TripPak Services document capture solutions...
Volvo 2008 calendar available
Volvo Trucks North America’s 2008 calendar, entitled “North American Iron Mark Tour,” is now available for order...
Werner’s revenues and earnings fall in 3Q
TL carrier Werner Enterprises said its earnings declined 5% to 30 cents per share as revenues decreased 6% to $510.3 million in the third quarter ...
FirstFleet adds Thermo King
PHH FirstFleet has announced the addition of transport temperature control systems manufacturer Thermo King to its North American truck maintenance network....
J.D. Power finds heavy-duty engines improving
Thanks to “heavy-duty truck maintainers” reporting fewer engine-related problems, Caterpillar and Cummins ranked highest in customer satisfaction in the J.D. Power ...
Seko opens Miami facility
Global supply chain solutions provider Seko has opened an expanded office in Miami designed to enhance its international trade business to Central and South America...
NRS builds in NYC area
Logistics service provider National Retail Systems, Inc. has announced a plan to develop a freight distribution facility in the New York area ...
Heil introduces smaller front loader
Heil Environmental has introduced a new 20-cubic-yard Half/Pack front loader on a single-axle chassis with a tag axle, far smaller than the standard 28-cubic-yard Half/Pack....
Traffic signals: On the blink
Justin Carretta, online news editor
The American Public Works Association (APWA), a part of the National Transportation Operations Coalition (NTOC), has given America’s traffic signals a D grade in their 2007 Traffic Signal Report Card...
Ports asked to put off pollution plan
Calling the current strategy to retrofit and replace trucks moving goods through the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach “unfeasible,” the California Trucking Association ...
Direct Trailer rolls out first product
Direct Trailer, LP has introduced its first product in the trailer marketplace--the Loadstar DT1000S Series all-steel flatbed. ...
Private equity fund invests in truck line
Evergreen Pacific Partners, a $275 million private equity fund based in Seattle, has made an undisclosed investment in Haney Truck Line...
NPTC offers free webcast
The National Private Truck Council (NPTC) is teaming with J.J. Keller and Associates to present a free webcast entitled “Driver Performance Management: Case Studies in Excellence” ...
