Mistaken Identity: Do Light Loads Really Cause Excessive Tire Wear?
Empty miles can chew up more than your balance sheet. Running empty one way may be good for fuel consumption, but it's hell on tires
Empty miles can chew up more than your balance sheet. Running empty one way may be good for fuel consumption, but it's hell on tires
Dogwood Crossing Travel Center, Carroll, Ohio, now offers the Transflo Express truckstop scanning solution from Pegasus TransTech, making it the 31st independently-owned truckstop to house the solution
Cummins Inc. will temporarily cut its workforce by 400 people at its Jamestown Engine Plant in New York starting in January, due to a significant short-term drop in demand for heavy-duty truck engine
Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers needed 17 median days off of work to recuperate from injuries and illnesses in 2008, up from 15 days in 200
Acquisitions of transportation technology companies seem to be commonplace these days, as the economic environment leaves some companies with no choice, while others want to keep up with the advancing of technology. News of consolidations have been frequent over the last few years. In February 2008, Xata Corp. bought GeoLogic Solutions. In March of this year, Descartes Systems Group acquired privately-held Scancode Systems. In April, McLeod Software announced the purchase of iLEN
TPMS 2.0 has created a new standard for certifying commercial tire pressure monitoring solutions that is more fleet centric
Hino Trucks is celebrating its 25th year making commercial trucks in the U.S., having introduced its first cab over engine medium-duty truck to the U.S. market in 198
The Teamsters Union has moved to unionize workers within the Canadian-based Challenger Group, which includes Challenger Motor Freight, Elgin Motor Freight and Lodwick Transport, after receiving numerous phone calls from Challenger employee
Navistar International Corporation and U.K.-based Modec Limited have formed a joint venture to produce Class 2c-3 all-electric commercial trucks, which will be sold in North, Central and South America
Following yesterday's announcement that Innovative Computing Corporation would be acquired by TMW Systems, Ernie Betancourt, former president of ICC, is launching QuikQ, a new company that will bring a fuel management tool to the trucking industry
Daylight's great for as long as it lasts, and then we switch on electric lights. But for lighting up the insides of trailers, forget old-fashioned incandescent and even late-model fluorescent types
Despite signs that transportation insurance rates were leveling off last quarter, the industry indicated that rates have been down across the board with intensifying competitio
Net orders for commercial trailers jumped 80 percent from September to October, a 124 percent boost from October 200
Through a recent agreement with its banks, SAF-Holland managed to restructure and extend its existing $476.9 million credit line until 2014
In September, surface transportation trade between the U.S., Canada and Mexico was 20.2 percent below the September 2008 leve
The new World of Volvo center in Gothenburg, Sweden, is more than just a global meeting center. It's also a museum celebrating almost a century of Volvo cars, trucks, construction machinery and marine drive systems.
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