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NewsMarch 11, 2011

Hendrickson Announces So-Cal Training Sessions for April

Hendrickson has scheduled its next round of technical suspension training for the heavy-duty transportation industry with its eighth edition of the Hendrickson Vehicle Suspension Institute (HVSI)

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NewsMarch 11, 2011

Why Low Cabovers in a Conventional-Cab Market?

Why do the Japan-based importers continue trying to sell low cab-over-engine trucks when North America is conventional-cab territory? The short answer is that LCOEs are what they have to sell

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NewsMarch 10, 2011

Navistar Reports 1Q Profit, Before Engineering Integration Costs

Navistar International Corp. reported adjusted net income for the first quarter ended Jan. 31, 2011, totaled $12 million, equal to $0.16 diluted earnings per share, excluding the impact of costs to integrate its truck and engine engineering operation

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NewsMarch 10, 2011

Navistar Offers Electric, Hybrid and Natural Gas Power, Hebe Notes

Navistar International has "the broadest, most energy-efficient line of trucks in the industry, helping deliver real-world savings to the bottom line," declares Jim Hebe, senior vice president, North American sales operations, in a statement issued during NTEA's Work Truck Show in Indianapolis.

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NewsMarch 10, 2011

NPR Gas Re-enters Production April 18

Isuzu says its NPR Gas low-cabover-engine truck will return this spring by way of an assembly agreement with Spartan Motors

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NewsMarch 10, 2011

FMCSA, Small Carrier Groups Settle CSA Suit

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has settled a suit by three trucking associations over information published in the CSA program. The agency said in the Wednesday announcement that it will change the way it displays CSA safety scores, in response to the carrier groups' contention that the original plan was flawed and should have gone through a public-comment procedure

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NewsMarch 8, 2011

ATA Asks PHMSA to Block Roadside Hazmat Package Inspections

The American Trucking Associations asked the Obama administration to prevent the opening and inspection of hazardous materials shipments along the roadside, unless it is believed the shipment poses an imminent danger or does not comply with the hazardous materials regulations

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NewsMarch 8, 2011

DOE Raises Diesel Forecast to $3.81

Continuing unrest in Libya as well as other North African and Middle Eastern countries has led to the highest crude oil prices since 2008

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NewsMarch 8, 2011

TCP: Just Another Cycle, or New Beginning for Trucking?

"Not since deregulation in 1981 has the trucking industry faced the degree of growing demand coupled with unbridled opportunity, over-written with the degree of uncertainty of new regulations, rising costs and an economy emerging from a recession," begins a new white paper from Richard Mikes and Lana Batts of Transport Capital Partners

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NewsMarch 8, 2011

Gridlock Returns: INRIX National Traffic Scorecard

INRIX, a provider of traffic and navigation services, released its 4th Annual INRIX National Traffic Scorecard revealing gridlock and longer commute times returning to America's roads

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