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NewsJuly 11, 2012

Freight Shipment Index Unchanged in May from April

The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry was unchanged in May from April, after a one-month rise, according to the Freight Transportation Services Index from the DOT's Bureau of Transportation Statistics

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NewsJuly 11, 2012

T. Boone Pickens to be Keynote Speaker at ATA Natural Gas Summit

Energy executive T. Boone Pickens has confirmed his participation as a keynote speaker at American Trucking Associations' Natural Gas in Trucking Summit Nov. 28-30

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NewsJuly 11, 2012

Old Dominion Opens Service Center Near Duluth, Minn.

Old Dominion Freight Line opened its newest service center in Superior Wis., near Duluth, Minn., to serve the Great Lakes shipping area in northern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin

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NewsJuly 11, 2012

TCP: Carriers Expect Small Increases in Driver Wages

Carriers anticipate driver wages to increase in the next 12 months, but only incrementally, according to results from Transport Capital Partners' Second Quarter 2012 Business Expectations Survey.

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NewsJuly 10, 2012

EIA Lowers Price Forecasts for Diesel, Gasoline, Crude Oil

In its latest Short Term Energy Outlook, the U.S. Energy Information Administration lowered its forecasted prices for gasoline and diesel fuel as well as West Texas Intermediate crude oil. With crude oil prices falling over the last month, EIA expects that on-highway diesel fuel retail prices, which averaged $3.84 per gallon in 2011, will average $3.79 per gallon in 2012

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NewsJuly 10, 2012

Mack Will Again Provide Pinnacle for Capitol Christmas Tree Project

Mack Trucks is providing a custom-decorated Mack Pinnacle model to deliver the 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree from Meeker, Colo., to the U.S. Capitol

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NewsJuly 10, 2012

Technicolor Expands Third Party Logistics Services

Technicolor is expanding its third party logistics service offering and rebranding the organization as Technicolor Global Logistics.

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NewsJuly 10, 2012

NACFE to Study 6x2s, Tire Pressure, Idle Reduction

The North American Council for Freight Efficiency is following up on its Fleet Fuel Benchmarking Study with three new research projects, on 6x2 tractor configurations, alternatives for maintaining correct tire pressure, and anti-idling products and strategies for sleeper tractors

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NewsJuly 10, 2012

Fleets Manage Costs as Freight Hauling Demand Grows

Transportation company chief financial officers across the U.S. are seeing more business opportunities despite rising costs and regulatory challenges, according to a recent survey by GE Capital.

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NewsJuly 10, 2012

Mesilla Valley Retrofits 4,000 Tractor-Trailers with TrailerTails

Mesilla Valley Transportation has completed the retrofit of its entire fleet of 4,000 tractor-trailers with fuel saving TrailerTail aerodynamic technology, manufactured by ATDynamics

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