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...
Low-voltage LED light for maintenance work
A new low-voltage LED light equipped with a 100 lb. grip magnetic base and 20-in. long bendable gooseneck with double ball joint has been released by Larson Electronics’ magnalight.com...
EPA approves propane autogas conversion system
Alliance AutoGas and conversion equipment provider and co-founding partner American Alternative Fuel have been given the go-ahead by the Environmental Protection Agency to convert more than 200 vehicle types to run on propane autogas...
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...
Great Dane adds Canadian location
Great Dane Trailers has expanded its Canadian network with a second full-service location in New Brunswick. Universal Truck and Trailer (UT&T) offers sales, parts, and service of Great Dane Trailers...
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...
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)....
Parallelogram wash bay lift package updated to minimize footprint
Rotary Lift has updated its parallelogram wash bay lift package to maximize available bay space and improve product life. ...
System provides heating without idling
Idle Free Systems has released the Total Truck Heat System, a battery-powered auxiliary heating system to provide warmth and comfort for a truck’s sleeper berth without idling the engine....
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. ...
Pilot Flying J opens in Iowa
Pilot Flying J has opened a new Pilot Travel Center in Osceola, IA. The new center features full amenities and is located just off Interstate 35 at Exit 34....
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%. ...
Tanker blast shuts down California highway
A tanker truck explosion in Montebello, CA, Wednesday damaged a highway overpass forcing closure of the 60 freeway from the 710 to the 605 until tonight at the earliest, causing detours and gridlock along the major east-west corridor, one of the busiest highways in the nation....
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....
DOT speeds up TIGER funding
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced yesterday that 46 transportation projects in 33 states and Puerto Rico will receive a total of $511 million from the third round of the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s (DOT) TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) program....
Building a “picture” for DEF pricing
As more and more trucks equipped with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems hit the road, fleets will need to keep closer tabs on diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) that makes SCR function properly in order to help minimize the impact of this new emissions control technology on their operating budgets. ...
New reality TV show features uShip & owner-operators
Six owner-operators and uShip, an online auction house for independent truckers, are the “stars” of a new reality TV show set to debut on Jan. 10 on A&E. ...
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