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Articles•by Deborah Lockridge•January 12, 2011

Proposed Accounting Changes Would Affect Truck Leasing

Reforms put in motion after the financial scandals of Enron, WorldCom and others nearly a decade ago will likely soon have an effect on fleets that lease their trucks rather than buying

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News•January 12, 2011

ACT Research: Commercial Vehicle Market Beginning Upcycle

The fundamentals that support heavy-duty commercial vehicle demand are all signaling the start of an upcycle for the market, according to ACT Research Co.

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News•January 12, 2011

DOE's Short-Term Energy Outlook Sees Diesel at $3.40 Diesel for 2011

The U.S. Department of Energy's short-term energy outlook, released Tuesday, has once again boosted its energy price forecast. Diesel fuel, DOE say, will average $3.40 per gallon for 2011, and $3.52 for 2012

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News•January 12, 2011

Year-End Surge Reported in Latest Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index surged 2.4 percent in December and pushed the PCI above its previous 2010 peak established in May. This performance, combined with November's 0.4 percent increase, was enough to offset three previous consecutive months of decline

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News•January 11, 2011

Diesel Rises for 6th Straight Week to $3.333

Diesel prices in most areas of the country were up again this week, the Department of Energy reported on Monday. The U.S. national average price hit $3.333 per gallon, on the sixth straight week of price increases

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News•January 11, 2011

CN to Launch EcoRide Container Chassis

CN will launch EcoRide in April, the first environmentally friendly container chassis in the North American intermodal industry

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News•January 10, 2011

Werner Launches Werner Cares Website

Werner Enterprises, Omaha, Neb., launched a new website, Wernercares.com, to promote safety-related and wellness issues to the general public as well as truck drivers both inside and outside the company

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News•January 7, 2011

December Class 8 Net Orders Top 25,000

FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing December Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American OEM's at 25,247 units, only a slight 3% drop from the strong November activity

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News•January 7, 2011

High-tech Highway Weigh Stations Coming to Oklahoma

Oklahoma will soon start work on the first two of nine new state-of-the-art truck inspection stations to be equipped with weigh-in-motion scales, remote infra-red vehicle temperature sensors and other cutting edge vehicle inspection technology

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Articles•by Jim Beach•January 6, 2011

Technology in the Next Decade: Safety and Productivity to Drive Advancements

At its core, information technology is about managing data: the schedules, locations, miles, hours, fuel prices, rates, lanes, speeds, bills, invoices, settlements, etc., that trucking companies compile every day

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