Updated: 5/19/2011 10:00:00 AM Truck and engine manufacturer Paccar Inc. said it has reached agreement to lease new Kenworth T800 day cab tractors with 15-liter… Read More »C. R. England to Lease Kenworth LNG Tractors
“Trailer Talk” blog by Tom Berg, Senior Editor Some truckers are so proud of the equipment they operate that they want scale models to display… Read More »Beautiful custom-built models start with long sheets of styrene
Updated: 5/18/2011 8:00:00 AM By Richard MoskowitzVice President and Regulatory Affairs Counsel American Trucking Associations This Opinion piece appears in the May 16 print edition… Read More »Opinion: Domestic Energy Production Besieged
TransCore’s North American Freight Index showed a 14 percent decline in spot market truckload freight volume for the month of April compared to March, but… Read More »TransCore's North American Freight Index Dips in April Due to Extreme Weather
Updated: 5/17/2011 8:40:00 AM Decline Is Biggest in a Year; Gas Dips a Half-Cent to $3.96 Diesel’s national average price fell 4.3 cents to $4.061… Read More »Diesel Fuel Price Drops 4.3¢ to $4.061 a Gallon
NAFA will use its board members as ambassadors to the fleet management community. When Douglas Weichman became NAFA’s 32nd president during the Association’s Annual Business… Read More »NAFA's Board Of Trustees Aims To Elevate Status Of The Association
Updated: 5/13/2011 4:30:00 PM Intermodal traffic volume rose 9% in the first quarter, the fifth straight year-over-year increase, the Intermodal Association of North America said… Read More »Intermodal Volume Rises 9% in First Quarter
A MaxxForce 15 engine awaits a driver at Navistar’s Heavy Duty Boot Camp, held in Tooele, Utah, near Salt Lake City. By Jim Park, Equipment… Read More »Navistar Hosts Heavy-Duty Boot Camp for Dealers, Sales Reps
Updated: 5/12/2011 9:00:00 AM Initial jobless claims fell 44,000 to 434,000 for the week ended Saturday, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Economists had forecast the… Read More »Initial Jobless Claims Fall 44,000
By Oliver B. Patton, Washington Editor The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is considering using its CSA data correction system to gather information about a… Read More »FMCSA Considering Using DataQ's to Transmit Crash Accountability Information
Updated: 5/12/2011 10:00:00 AM Business inventories rose 1% in March, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The increase followed a revised 0.7% gain in February that… Read More »Business Inventories Rise 1%
Dave Kraft Commentary by Dave Kraft, Director, Business Development, Qualcomm Enterprise Services Part of the fun of technology is getting a new vocabulary of acronyms.… Read More »ELDs and EOBRs