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NewsSeptember 7, 2011

TMC Fall Meeting to Offer Full Educational Slate

The Technology & Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations will offer a full slate of sessions concentrating on maintenance and equipment issues during its 2011 Fall Meeting.

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NewsSeptember 7, 2011

Polk: New and Used Truck Registrations up from 2010

Commercial new vehicle registrations for Class 3-8 vehicles for the first half of 2011 were up 15.4% over the first half of last year, and 24.2% better than the first half of 2009, according to Polk. June 2011 new registrations were at the highest level seen during the past 18 months

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NewsSeptember 7, 2011

Ryder and Staples to Use CNG Tractors in Southern California

Ryder announced that it and Staples have agreed to add 10 heavy-duty compressed natural gas tractors to Ryder's dedicated fleet servicing Staples, the world's largest office products company

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NewsSeptember 7, 2011

Hybrid Truck Sales to Surpass 100,000 Annually by 2017

A new report from Pike Research forecasts that hybrid medium and heavy-duty truck sales will surpass 100,000 vehicles annually by 2017

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NewsSeptember 7, 2011

Diesel Prices Up, Crude Down

Diesel prices were up nearly 5 cents a gallon this week, to $3.868 per gallon nationwide, according to the Energy Department's weekly figures

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NewsSeptember 7, 2011

EMA Becomes Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association

The Engine Manufacturers Association, which includes the Truck Manufacturers Association, is now using the name Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association for the trade group

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NewsSeptember 7, 2011

Kenan Advantage Group Grows Gas Business with JBK Acquisition

Kenan Advantage Group, a large tank truck transporter and logistics provider based in North Canton, Ohio, has completed its acquisition of Jack B. Kelley Inc., which it says is the largest independent transporter of industrial gases in the United States

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NewsSeptember 6, 2011

ATA Asks Obama Administration to Reconsider HOS Rules

In a letter to Cass Sunstein, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, American Trucking Associations urged the Obama administration to live up to its promise to relieve the burden of unnecessary regulations as it considers changes to the hours-of-service rules

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NewsSeptember 6, 2011

Schneider Ramping up New Oil Field Service

Schneider National is hiring 500 new drivers as part of its new service to support hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," companies

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NewsSeptember 6, 2011

SoCalGas, Oberon Fuels to Produce DME

Southern California Gas Co. and Oberon Fuels, a San Diego based low-emission alternative fuels company, will team up to design and build the first commercial facility in the United States to produce Dimethyl Ether from natural gas for use as a transportation fuel

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