Industry News: The past 30 days.

2/8/2010  January Truck Orders Reach a New Low
Class 8 truck orders have not been this low since July 2002, according to preliminary data released by FTR Associates....

2/5/2010  Fleets Hesitant About Buying in First Quarter
Despite news that the market may be slowly starting to turn around, fleets are even more soft on buying equipment in the first quarter of 2010, with CK Commercial Vehicle Research's FSR Equipment Buying Index dropping 21 percent...

2/3/2010  FTR: Strengthening Freight May Lead to Higher Truck and Trailer Sales in 2011
FTR Associates says 2010 Class 8 sales will be affected by the new EPA mandate, but says the amount of truck freight moving at year-end could be good news for truckers and suppliers....

2/3/2010  Graves Provides Outlook on a Fast Moving Industry
Trucking will continue to dominate the transportation industry over the next 10 years, with growth of about 30 percent expected by 2020. In 2009, trucking held 68.3 percent of the tonnage pie,...

2/1/2010  Trucking Industry Volunteers to Help Clean Up Wreaths
Volunteers from Waste Management, Inc., the American Trucking Associations and others in the trucking industry are helping to clear the wreaths placed in remembrance of U.S. fallen soldiers during the Wreaths Across America campaign this past holiday season....

1/29/2010  NAFTA Land Transportation Trade Down 2.9 Percent
In November, surface transportation trade between the U.S., Canada and Mexico was down 2.9 percent from November 2008, landing at $58.9 billion...

1/26/2010  Tonnage Index at Highest Level Since November '08
The American Trucking Associations' advance seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index climbed 2.1 percent in December, following a 2.6 percent increase in November....

1/25/2010  HDAJ Recognizes Top 5 Aftermarket Products
Heavy Duty Aftermarket Journal announced the winners of its Top 5 2010 Aftermarket Products during an awards luncheon Thursday, as Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week wrapped things up in Las Vegas....

1/25/2010  Trailer Shipments Reach Lowest Since 1978
Despite the fact that December had the highest monthly total of trailer shipments for 2009, shipments for the full year were down 44 percent from 2008...

1/25/2010  TransCore Freight Index Shows Strong Year-Over-Year Figures
December availability of spot market freight saw a 103 percent year-over-year boost, rising to twice the level achieved in December 2008....

1/22/2010  Freight Brokers Willing to Raise Bond to $100,000 With Tighter Regs
The Transportation Intermediaries Association is trying to negotiate a deal that would boost the bond required of brokers from $10,000 to $100,000 while strengthening regulation of the licensing system...

1/21/2010  Trucking Industry Steps Up to Provide Relief to Haiti
When TEC Equipment's President and CEO Dave Thompson lands the company's corporate jet in Haiti Thursday morning, he'll have two hours to find an orphan girl that a Portland, Ore., couple had adopted just days before the devastating earthquake hit...

1/19/2010  Heavy Duty Dialogue Looks at Trucks in the Next Decade
What does the next decade hold for the commercial vehicle industry? How will trucks and the way they are marketed change? What will be the driving factors behind those changes? Heavy Duty Dialogue '10 tried to answer that question ...

1/19/2010  Class 8 Orders See Year-over-Year Climb in December
December orders of Class 8 commercial vehicles climbed 37 percent to 11,919 units from the year ago month...

1/18/2010  Freight Volumes Look Up in December
Freight availability on the spot market in December saw an improvement of 5 percent from the November level...

1/15/2010  ATA Releases Annual Trucking Trends Report
The American Trucking Associations has released "American Trucking Trends 2009-2010," an annual state of the industry report....

1/15/2010  3PLs Hit Hard in '09; 2010 Looks Better
In 2009, the U.S. third party logistics sector saw its first year-over-year drop in market revenues since 1995, when Armstrong & Associates began tracking the U.S. 3PL market....

1/14/2010  DOT Freight Index Up 1.8 Percent After Two-month Drop
After falling for two straight months, the Freight Transportation Services Index gained 1.8 percent in November from its October level...

1/13/2010  Commercial Vehicle Orders to Slow in First Quarter
While commercial vehicle orders saw a strong end to 2009, net orders are expected to slow dramatically in the first quarter before recovering in the second half of 2010...

1/13/2010  What Will the Heavy-Duty Industry Look Like in 2020?
Imagine caravans of trailers pulled by a tractor made out of plastics and ceramics, piloted by a single driver on special truck-only highways.

In reviewing the heavy-duty business, we find no evidence that this business has ever undergone the magnitude of change that it faces today. What's more, never have so many external factors been so critical to the industry's success....

1/12/2010  Fleets Move Into 2010 With Caution
Fleets have a cautious outlook on 2010, with most not expecting substantial expansion until late in the year or even 2011...