ATD welcomes new chairman, names trucks of the year
Richard W. Witcher addressed the American Truck Dealers (ATD) for the first time as chairman yesterday during the group’s Convention and Expo in Las Vegas. Witcher replaces Kyle Treadway, who encouraged members to embrace changes in the industry in his opening speech...
Quality Trailer Products names president
Chris Dietemann has been named president of Quality Trailer Products. Dietemann replaces Jim Painter, who was recently named president of Polar Tank Trailer...
Rugged docking station for iPad
With the increasing number of tablet computers reaching the market, securing them in commercial vehicles is a concern. Gamber-Johnson, which specializes in rugged docking stations and mounting systems, has released the TabCruzer for tablet computers such as the iPad...
Aluminum siderail added to Fontaine trailer
Fontaine Trailer Co. is now offering its Infinity trailers with the patented RASR Routed Aluminum SideRail. The Infinity line includes platform, dropdeck, and twistlock container trailers...
Xtra Lease adding over 9,000 new trailers
Describing the transactions as refreshing its fleet, Xtra Lease has ordered some 9,400 new van and reefer trailers for 2012. Equipped with fuel-saving aerodynamic side skirts, the new trailers will replace many older model trailers that will be re-designated as local cartage or storage trailers, or sold, said Xtra Lease...
MetroGistics makes organizational changes
Dustin Ruch has been promoted to director of business development for MetroGistics, a full-service automobile-transportation company that operates nationwide...
Westbound Bay Bridge into SF to be closed Presidents’ Day weekend
Work on the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge will result in lane and ramp closures and the entire upper deck westbound towards San Francisco is slated to be closed from Friday Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. to Tuesday Feb. 21 at 5 a.m...
Haldex relocates friction center
Haldex is moving its Pennsylvania friction center to a facility with increased production capacity, the company said. Currently located in Harrisburg, PA, the friction center will move to Middletown, PA, to a site three miles off the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
Old Dominion opens Pacific Northwest drayage facility
Old Dominion Freight Line has opened its first Pacific Northwest container drayage facility. The new Seattle-Tacoma Drayage Operation will serve all ports, rail and container yards in the Pacific Northwest, the company said...
Ryder leasing revenue in line with expectations
According to analyst Peter Nesvold of Jefferies, the Fleet Management Solutions business unit—which provides full-service leasing— of Ryder in the fourth quarter of last year posted revenue of $1.075 billion. ...
Bridgestone reorganizes commercial group
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (BATO) has made several personnel changes in its Bridgestone Commercial Group. John Boynton has been named vice president of sales for TBR, Retread and Construction Tires. Within BATO’s Company Owned Operations Group (COO), Doyle Bradford has accepted the position of Vice President, Sales and Operations...
Great Dane facility rolls out 100,000th trailer
The 100,000th trailer to ever roll off the assembly line at the Great Dane Trailers manufacturing facility in Terre Haute, IN, was met with a company celebration on Feb. 1. The trailer, built for Celadon Group, was a Champion CP dry van...
AXN Heavy Duty names vp of sales
AXN Heavy Duty has named Jeff Hyatt vice president of sales. Hyatt will be responsible for sales in the OEM, fleet and aftermarket segments in North America...
Truck weight increase proposal scuttled
A bleary 3 a.m. vote by the House of Representatives’ Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today removed a controversial truck weight increase proposal from the five-year highway funding bill known formally as the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, allowing the committee to send the bill to the House floor for a vote by a narrow 29 to 24 margin...
Economic slippage seen in several reports
Some shakiness is being detected in the U.S. economy, according to several different reports, as consumer confidence and home prices declined, even as the overall employment situation improved during the first month of 2012...
EPA gives OK to install dual fuel conversion system on ISX engines
EcoDual, a provider of dual fuel conversion systems for heavy-duty diesel trucks, has received authorization from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to begin installing its systems on 2004 to 2009 Cummins ISX engines...
CARB extends Truck and Bus Regulation reporting deadline
The Jan. 31, 2012, California Truck and Bus Regulation reporting date has being extended to March 30, 2012, to give fleet owners more time to submit their fleet information. Reporting is required for fleet owners to take advantage of flexibility in the regulation...
Scanning app for Android devices released
A new mobile scanning app for Android devices has been released by Pegasus TransTech...
Dana expands SVL aftermarket drivetrain line
Dana Holding Corp. is adding additional products to its SVL line of aftermarket drivetrain products to include additional heavy-duty components as well as light-duty axle components...
Device monitors performance of engine block heater
JoSa Enterprises has released a new product that is designed to monitor a truck’s engine block heater to ensure it will start a truck in cold weather when needed...
Dunlop expands line with new steer tire
The Dunlop brand of truck tires has added a new all-position steer tire for regional fleet, school bus, and pickup and delivery applications...
Roadnet Technologies names account representative
Christopher Farmer has been named account representative for the Coastal territory for Roadnet Technologies. Farmer most recently served as senior business development manager for Cirta Communications...
PHH Arval appoints truck engineering vp
PHH Arval has appointed Lenny Pusdesris to the new position of vice president-truck engineering. Pusdesris will lead an engineering team and report to Tom Keilty, senior vice president & COO...
Propane autogas refueling to be demonstrated at NTEA
The refueling of a propane vehicle will be demonstrated at the upcoming National Truck Equipment Assn. (NTEA) Work Truck Show...
Navistar believes it will avoid ‘nonconformance’ engine penalties
While Navistar faces stiff fines from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for building engines that do not meet the agency’s 2010 emissions standards, the truck and engine maker told analysts during a meeting at its new headquarters in Lisle, IL, yesterday it probably won’t have to pay them – largely because it just submitted its 13L engine to the EPA for emissions certification...
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