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With freight improving but costs still climbing, fleet maintenance executives explain how they're balancing price, quality, and supplier relationships.
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States that retrofit older diesel engines with emission control devices can earn credits toward compliance with federal clean air programs. The U.S Environmental Protection says this newest plan is intended to encourage state and local governments, fleet operators and industry to use available technology to reduce pollution from existing engines
Read More →By a margin of just seven votes, the Truckload Carrier Assn. decided not to integrate with American Trucking Assns. The 213-206 decision was not aimed against ATA but against certain aspects of ATA’s restructuring plan, said TCA chairman Gary Baumhover. In particular, it is a rejection of the requirement that TCA members join ATA, he said
Read More →CarrierPoint has selected SafeHarbor.com services to accelerate its time to market, lower its in-house support costs and offer carriers and shippers top-level support with online shipping transaction services. SafeHarbor.com uses customized knowledge bases, state-of-the-art infrastructure and
Read More →San Joaquin Delta College and Sacramento-based Western Truck School have formed a partnership in which Delta will offer classroom space and parking for instructional tractor-trailers, while the school is launching its standard, open-enrollment training program. The program
Read More →Freightquote.com, Overland Park, KS, has expanded into the ground-to-air mode through an exclusive alliance with Emery Worldwide. The alliance provides Freightquote.com's commercial customers with access to global expedited freight services to the 229 countries served
Read More →Freightgate, Huntington Beach, CA - an online portal for the freight and logistics industry - has announced a strategic partnership with eFruit International, creator of online vertical marketplaces for the fresh fruit and fruit juice industries. The
Read More →Pana-Pacific Corp. plans to provide satellite radios in trucks through a partnership with XM Satellite Radio.
Read More →Meritor Automotive, Troy, MI, will launch an Internet parts exchange for the U.S. commercial medium- and heavy-duty truck aftermarket.
Read More →Western Star Trucks has announced an unscheduled two week shutdown at its Kelowna, BC, truck plant early in April. The company blamed a softening North American Class 8 truck market plus high dealer inventories. Western Star assembles
Read More →TruckersCo-op.com (www.truckersco-op.com), a business-to-business buying site for fleets, has announced marketing agreements with Qualcomm and Pennzoil-Quaker State. Through the Qualcomm agreement, TruckersCo-op.com will offer Qualcomm’s OmniTRACS mobile communications systems and TruckMAIL products. OmniTRACS is the satellite-based tracking
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