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Canadian Interest in EOBRs Remains Strong Despite Delays and Official Apathy

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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Consolidations Among Tech Companies Are Here to Stay

Consolidations Among Tech Companies Are Here to Stay

Acquisitions of transportation technology companies seem to be commonplace these days, as the economic environment leaves some companies with no choice, while others want to keep up with the advancing of technology. News of consolidations have been frequent over the last few years. In February 2008, Xata Corp. bought GeoLogic Solutions. In March of this year, Descartes Systems Group acquired privately-held Scancode Systems. In April, McLeod Software announced the purchase of iLEN

Betancourt Launches Fuel Management Venture

Following yesterday's announcement that Innovative Computing Corporation would be acquired by TMW Systems, Ernie Betancourt, former president of ICC, is launching QuikQ, a new company that will bring a fuel management tool to the trucking industry

Interior Lighting? Think LEDs

Neither incandescents nor fluorescents can hold a candle(power) to light-emitting diodes, which...

Daylight's great for as long as it lasts, and then we switch on electric lights. But for lighting up the insides of trailers, forget old-fashioned incandescent and even late-model fluorescent types

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April 2024

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World of Volvo's World Class Vehicle Collection

The new World of Volvo center in Gothenburg, Sweden, is more than just a global meeting center. It's also a museum celebrating almost a century of Volvo cars, trucks, construction machinery and marine drive systems.

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1928 Volvo LV Series truck.

World of Volvo's World Class Vehicle Collection

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