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NewsDecember 4, 2009

Xata Widens Loss in Fiscal Fourth Quarter

Xata Corporation posted a net loss to common shareholders of $1.6 million, or 19 cents a share, during the fiscal fourth quarter, compared to a net loss of $0.4 million, or 5 cents a share, for the same perio

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NewsDecember 4, 2009

Truck Demand Should Fall Off in Early 2010

FTR Associates expects heavy-duty truck demand to fall in early 2010, after EPA 2007 engine inventory is exhauste

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NewsDecember 4, 2009

Distributors See Improvement in Profit Margins From 2008

While 68 percent of industrial distributors saw sales down from 2008, a total of 65 percent of industrial distributors saw their profit margins increase or remain the same in 2009, according to a recent Industrial Distribution surve

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NewsDecember 4, 2009

Canadian Interest in EOBRs Remains Strong Despite Delays and Official Apathy

Even as the U.S. trucking industry awaits the final rule on EOBRs from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Canada's trucking industry has been battling with some of the same questions. Truckers around the world have used on-board recording devices for more than 50 years. The first electronic device, the Tripmaster by Rockwell (now ArvinMeritor), emerged in the mid-1980s, and the pro and con camps have been split ever since

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NewsDecember 4, 2009

Kentucky Trailer, High Tech Performance Form Joint Venture

Kentucky Trailer has formed a joint venture with High Tech Performance Trailers to build and sell custom trailers to the motorsports transport, corporate marketing, training, hospitality, mobile marketing and event marketing industries

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NewsDecember 4, 2009

Navistar Plant Wins Sustainability Award

Navistar's Melrose Park engine plant has received the Illinois Governor's Sustainability Award, for the 14th time

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Articlesby Jim ParkDecember 4, 2009

Mistaken Identity: Do Light Loads Really Cause Excessive Tire Wear?

Empty miles can chew up more than your balance sheet. Running empty one way may be good for fuel consumption, but it's hell on tires

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NewsDecember 3, 2009

Ohio Truckstop Adds Transflo Express Scanning

Dogwood Crossing Travel Center, Carroll, Ohio, now offers the Transflo Express truckstop scanning solution from Pegasus TransTech, making it the 31st independently-owned truckstop to house the solution

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NewsDecember 3, 2009

Cummins to Temporarily Slice 400 at New York Plant

Cummins Inc. will temporarily cut its workforce by 400 people at its Jamestown Engine Plant in New York starting in January, due to a significant short-term drop in demand for heavy-duty truck engine

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NewsDecember 3, 2009

Truck Drivers See Boost in Sick Days in '08

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers needed 17 median days off of work to recuperate from injuries and illnesses in 2008, up from 15 days in 200

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