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News•February 14, 2000

DaimlerChrysler Lacks Capacity for Dodge Trucks

DaimlerChrysler AG currently does not have the production capacity to build Dodge-branded medium duty trucks, a company executive disclosed to Stark's News Service Interactive

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News•February 14, 2000

PNV Enters Alliance With NetCards

PNV Inc. and NetCards, Inc. have entered an alliance which will allow drivers to send NetCards e-messages and e-cards from PNV's web site. PNV president Steven Yevoli said the agreement would "help enhance the livelihood of our

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News•February 14, 2000

More Owner-Operators Plan Fuel Price Protests

More than 200 owner-operators from Philadelphia, southern New Jersey, Baltimore and Washington met Saturday in Fairless Hills, PA, and voted to hold a work stoppage Monday

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News•February 11, 2000

More Protests Scheduled At Ports This Week

In their continuing bid to be recognized as employees and organize for better pay and working conditions, owner-operators at ports across the country are staging demonstrations this week. Most of these rallies are a follow-up to demonstrations held Jan. 31 at six Eastern ports, where drivers presented a Port Trucker Bill of Rights to port authority and local government officials

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News•February 11, 2000

Teamsters Rally In Dayton

Nearly 400 union members participated in a march and rally in Dayton, OH, Thursday to show their support for the Teamsters' three-month-old strike against Overnite Transportation

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News•February 11, 2000

The E-Commerce Promise: Accessible Information

The Internet has the biggest potential to impact trucking by breaking down inefficient information barriers, speakers said at the recent Heavy Duty Dialogue 2000 in Atlanta. Chris Lofgren, Schneider National chief information/logistics officer, said e-commerce will make

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News•February 11, 2000

Schneider Extends Qualcomm Contract

Green Bay, WI-based Schneider National has renewed its Qualcomm OmniTRACS mobile communications contract for another extended term. The fleet was once of the first OmniTRACS customers. The OmniTRACS system, which operates 24 hours a day, seven

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News•February 11, 2000

HighwayMaster Gets Big Ameritech Contract

HighwayMaster Communications Inc., Richardson, TX, has been chosen to provide Ameritech and other member companies of SBC Communications Inc. more than 28,000 HighwayMaster Series 5005S intelligent mobile units.

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News•February 11, 2000

Partnering: The New Buzzword

Everyone wants to be a partner these days. Fleets want to partner with truck and trailer manufacturers. Truck and trailer OEMs want to partner with suppliers. Suppliers with fleets. And so on. But as speakers at the recent Heavy Duty Dialogue 2000 in Atlanta astutely noted, partnerships only work under certain conditions

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News•February 11, 2000

GM Trucks Predicts A Good Year

General Motors says 2000 should be another good year for commercial vehicle sales. The company said January sales of medium duty commercial vehicles were 39% above January 1999 deliveries

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