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News•October 13, 2012

Smith Dairy Trucking Opens CNG Fueling Station in Northern Ohio

Smith Dairy Trucking unveiled a new Compressed Natural Gas fueling island in northern Ohio late this summer and is now making the station available to other fleets, around the clock, seven days a week

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News•October 13, 2012

20th Annual National NGV Achievement Award Winners Announced

NGVAmerica and the Clean Vehicle Education Foundation, two organizations dedicated to increasing the use of natural gas-powered vehicles to improve air quality, have announced ten 2012 winners of the prestigious NGV Achievement Award in addition to one NGV Lifetime Achievement Award

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News•October 12, 2012

TxDOT To Expand I-35W for $1.6 Billion

The Texas Department of Transportation has completed negotiations on a new highway construction agreement that will add two privately managed lanes to I-35W in the Fort Worth area.

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News•October 12, 2012

Anderson Trucking Announces Purchase of Waylon Transport

Anderson Trucking Service Inc. of St. Cloud, Minn., announced its aquisition of the assets of Waylon Transport Ltd. of Devon, Alberta

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News•October 11, 2012

TMC Announces Technician Scholarship Winners

The Technology & Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations has awarded five diesel truck technician scholarships for the 2012-2013 academic year

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News•October 11, 2012

Bendix Establishes Brake Shoe Remanufacturing Operation

Bendix has begun serial production of remanufactured brake shoes at its new Bendix Brake Shoe Remanufacturing Center in Huntington, Ind

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News•October 11, 2012

Accuride Announces Cost-Cutting, Lower Earnings Expectations

Accuride Corp. is cutting staff and production due to to soft Class 8 truck orders and a loss of standard equipment position at Navistar and Paccar. Class 8 truck orders continue to be weak and have led to rapidly declining build schedules at Accuride's major OEM customers.

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News•October 11, 2012

HDAW'13 to Host 6th Annual CVSN Pinewood Challenge

The 18-wheel CVSN Pinewood Challenge will be held in conjunction with Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week 2013 in Las Vegas

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News•October 11, 2012

NACFE to Study Barriers to Adoption of Freight Efficiency Technology

The North American Council for Freight Efficiency has been awarded a project to study and understand how technology adoption works to improve freight efficiency in North American Class 7 and 8 tractor-trailer operations. The International Council on Clean Transportation is sponsoring the study

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News•October 11, 2012

Back to the Future: The Current and Coming Driver Shortage

LAS VEGAS - At least one industry analyst has predicted the driver shortage could reach 500,000 by sometime net year. The American Trucking Associations recently reported that driver turnover at large truckload fleets is now at 106%, the highest level since early 2007. What's driving this shortage, and what can be done about it

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