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How Phillips Connect Helped Nussbaum Transportation Double its Trailer Life
Seven years into deploying Phillips Connect’s smart trailer platform, Nussbaum Transportation has extended trailer life from 10 to 15 years.
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHSeven years into deploying Phillips Connect’s smart trailer platform, Nussbaum Transportation has extended trailer life from 10 to 15 years.
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Con-way Freight announced that professional driver sales representative James "Jackpot" Sutfin surpassed the career milestone of three million consecutive, accident-free miles. Sutfin, a long-time resident of Las Vegas, is the first of Con-way's 15,000 drivers nationwide to reach this safe-driving achievement.
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Although technology has been able to reduce the trucking industry's reliance on paper, it hasn't been able to completely cut it out. Paperwork still has to be signed and submitted before a carrier or driver can get paid.
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When you are getting ready to put a dry van trailer out to pasture and begin the process of searching for its replacement, there are many things to consider: maintenance costs, fuel-economy regulations, payload and the weight of the trailer, to name a few. One way to navigate through the maze of options is to follow some tips a few trailer manufacturers shared with us.
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The highway law that took so much effort over the past five years is just six months old, but now it's time to start again. As the U.S. Department of Transportation still unpacks the two-year, $105 billion measure passed last summer, Congress and transportation interests are gathering to return, once more, unto the breach.
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Hankook Tire has named Thomas Kenny its new Vice President of Technology and Head of its Akron Technical Center in Uniontown, Ohio.
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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced the kickoff of a study to look at options for improving or replacing the U.S. 51 Ohio River Bridge – also known as the Cairo Bridge – between Wickliffe, Ky., and Cairo, Ill.
Read More →TTS announced its the merger with Walsh Transportation Group recently. Walsh Transportation Group is a third party transportation and logistics provider with an asset-based trucking division, Atlantic Distribution Services.
Read More →Truckload linehaul rates rose for the fourth straight month in January, increasing 0.9% from December, according to the Cass Truckload Linehaul Index. Annually, rates are up 4.1% from last January. Superstorm Sandy may have much to do with the larger-than-normal January increase.
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Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton announced that Tony Truelove has been appointed marketing manager for the company’s North America Truck operations. He is located in Galesburg, Mich., and reports to Tom Nellenbach, director of marketing and communications for Eaton’s Vehicle Group.
Read More →The annual Heavy Duty Dialogue, jointly presented by the Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association and Transport Topics, held Monday, March 11, will feature an Industry Executives Discussion on current and pressing issues in the global CV industry.
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