The number of commercial truck crossings into the United States from Canada and Mexico totaled 10.7 million in 2012, 3.6% more than in 2011, according to a new figures released by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The Federal Highway Administration chose a Massachusetts engineering firm, CDM Smith and Associates, to help prepare its comprehensive study of truck size and weight limits. The $2.3 million contract is the next step in the agency’s effort to finish the study by November 2014, as required by last year’s highway law.
John Lilley of Kelowna, British Columbia, a professional truck driver for Bison Transport of Winnipeg, Manitoba, has been named a Truckload Carriers Association Highway Angel. He is being recognized for volunteering to help at the scene of a bad accident and for making a valiant effort to save the life of one of the victims.
MHC Kenworth officially opened its new dealership in Topeka, Kan.. after undergoing construction to create a new building designed with green technology.
Randolph Boswell, a driver for Southern Refrigerated Transport, Texarkana, Ark., was selected as the Darrell Hicks Memorial Ambassador of the Year for the year 2013 by Trucker Buddy International.
Old Dominion Freight Line opened a new service center in Salinas, California, to accommodate increased demand in California’s Central Coast region as well as relocated its Des Moines, Iowa Service Center to a facility more than twice the size of its previous service center.
Preliminary numbers for March show Class 8 truck orders dropped slightly from February, but analysts are not concerned by when they see as a temporary dip.