Shorepower Technologies has announced six more truckstops added electric plug-in power pedestals to their locations from late December 2012 to the end of February.
XRS Corp. (formerly Xata Corp.) announced that Brendan Reidy is joining the company effective immediately as its new president and chief operating officer. Reidy is the former chairman and CEO of Clarus Systems.
The nation’s unemployment rate fell slightly in February according to the U.S. Labor Department.
Six men from northwest Ohio were indicted on a variety of charges related to their roles in a conspiracy to transport semi-trucks, trailers, and cargo stolen in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana, said law enforcement officials said.
Last week, a tentative agreement was reached between the New York Shipping Association and a few local unions belonging to the International Longshoremen's Association, which serves the Port of New York and New Jersey.
Melton Truck Lines, an air-ride flatbed motor carrier, will soon officially break ground on new corporate offices that will accommodate the company’s planned growth of several hundred new jobs over the next eight years.
American Power Group Corp., announced that its subsidiary, American Power Group Inc., has received online notification from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that its recent Clean Alternative Fuel Vehicle and Engine Conversion Submission for an additional 22 engine families has been approved for the following additional Outside Useful Life (“OUL”) engines:
FedEx has met its fuel use reduction goal ahead of its 2020 deadline, so the company has set itself a new goal for that year.
The average U.S. cost of diesel is down for another week, after hitting it’s highest level since August of 2008 two weeks ago.
Cummins Inc. and Eaton Corp. have devised a fuel-saving, integrated engine-transmission combination that will rival proprietary offerings from some truck builders.
Green shouldn't be the only color a fleet is considering when making a move toward "going green." "The most important colors in business are still red and black," said Joe Fiorelli, fleet and safety director for Gulfeagle Supply during a session for NTEA's Green Truck Summit entitled, "Compounding the Green: Incremental Measures for Going Green and Sustainable."
Two Canadian fleets, Bison Transport and Brian Kurtz Trucking, are the grand prize winners in the Truckload Carriers Associations' 2012 National Fleet Safety Awards.
The Canada Border Services Agency is extending the eManifest informed compliance period for highway carriers. Regulations to enforce eManifest requirements for highway carriers are expected to be in place in fall 2013.
Shell is planning two liquefaction plants that will produce about one quarter of a million tons of LNG to road and marine users in the Gulf Coast and Great Lakes regions.
The Truckload Carriers Association has elected Tom Kretsinger Jr., president of American Central Transport Inc. of Liberty, Mo., as its 2013-2014 chairman.
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