Brake Safety Week: Nearly 5,000 Out-of-Service Violations
Nearly 5,000 commercial vehicles were put out of service for critical brake problems during this year’s Brake Safety Week, held Sept. 16-22.
Nearly 5,000 commercial vehicles were put out of service for critical brake problems during this year’s Brake Safety Week, held Sept. 16-22.
Keep Truckin’s App Marketplace allows their customers to create customized integrations with third-party technology providers to share data from their electronic logging device (ELD), dash cam, log audit and other applications.
Boyd Bros. Transportation, an Alabama-based flatbed truckload carrier, opened a new driver-training school, Boyd Driving Academy.
Redefining the Road, the official magazine of the Women In Trucking Association, has named its Top 50 Companies for Women to Work For in Transportation.
Great Dane announced the death of former Great Dane Vice President of Design and Development Charles “Charlie” Fetz. The company saluted Fetz for having had “a celebrated career in engineering” before retiring in 2016.
Nikola Motor Company announced it is developing the Nikola Tre, a fully electric hydrogen-powered day cab tractor aimed at markets in Europe.
Peterbilt announced a new warranty option for Red Oval Certified Pre-Owned truck customers.
October Class 8 orders were above 40,000 units for the eighth month in a row, but two different companies reporting the data put rather different spins on their analysis of the numbers.
Ecology, a transportation and logistics company in California, has switched its fleet of more than 600 trucks to run on Neste MY renewable diesel and is reporting cleaner fuel filters, fewer maintenance problems, and reductions in tailpipe emissions.
Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) hosted its inaugural Technician Skills Competition, which tested technicians’ ability to diagnose and repair DTNA’s range of products, including the Freightliner Cascadia, New Cascadia, Detroit heavy-duty engine, and DT 12 transmission.
A little friendly competition found Rush Truck Center technicians and a top Nascar pit crew working together to catch the eye of tech school students.
A new application introduced recently by FourKites can take advantage of capacity sharing among shippers and carriers to reduce deadhead miles, the company said.
According to Peter Voorhoeve, who just weeks ago took over the reins at Volvo Truck North America, the OEM’s Class 8 market share in the U.S. has risen almost two percentage points in less than a year – from 8.6% for 2017 to 10.5% so far in 2018.
Don’t worry about some signs of the economy softening in recent months, Bob Costello, chief economist for the American Trucking Associations, told trucking executives during the American Trucking Associations’ annual Management Conference and Exhibition.
Volvo Trucks North America has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Trimble Transportation Enterprise to develop future transportation management and fleet maintenance products and services.
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