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Aftermarket•by Staff•March 28, 2011

SkyBitz Joins DASH7 Alliance

SkyBitz, a remote asset tracking and information management company, announced its membership in the DASH7 Alliance, a non-profit industry consortium that promotes the use of the ISO 18000-7, or DASH7, standard for wireless sensor networking

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Aftermarket•by Staff•March 28, 2011

Ryder Opens Two Used Vehicle Sales Centers

Ryder System opened used vehicle sales centers in Orlando, Fla., and Montebello, Calif

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Aftermarket•by Staff•March 28, 2011

Mitchell 1 Offers Service Information Skills Station to SuperTech Organizers

Mitchell 1 offers to operate a complete Service Information Skills Station to state trucking organizations that hold annual SuperTech competitions

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Aftermarket•by Staff•March 28, 2011

Volvo Trucks North America and UAW Agree on Five-Year Contract

Volvo Trucks North America today announced that employees represented by the United Auto Workers have ratified a new five-year agreement covering about 1,300 members of UAW Local #2069 at the New River Valley, VA, plant

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Aftermarket•by Staff•March 28, 2011

Bridgestone Bandag Promotes 'Retread Instead'

Bridgestone Bandag Tire Solutions launched a new campaign designed to promote retreading. At the heart of the campaign is an appeal to fleets to consider extending their casing age limits when retreading

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Aftermarket•by Staff•March 27, 2011

Class 3 Registrations Lead Improved January Numbers

New commercial vehicle registrations, Class 3-8, in January were 32,175 units, an increase of 11.6 percent from January 2010 and about 1 percent higher than December 2010, according to Polk

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Fleet Management•by Staff•March 27, 2011

Heavy Industry Drives Flatbed Uptick

The Great Recession hit trucking hard, but the rebound has begun with the open-deck sector leading the charge back to profitability. For the week ending March 19, a 3.2 percent uptick in flatbed freight volume compared to the previous week helped lead overall truckload freight availability on TransCore's DAT Network of load boards to increase by 2 percent nationwide

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Drivers•by Staff•March 25, 2011

JOC Ranks Roadrunner Fastest-Growing LTL

Roadrunner Transportation was the fastest growing-company among the top 25 less-than-truckload carriers last year, according to the Journal of Commerce

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Fleet Management•by Staff•March 25, 2011

Trailer Orders Surge

Net orders of commercial trailers rose to 21,990 in February, a gain of over 25 percent from January, according to ACT Research. The commercial vehicle industry analysts also reported solid factory shipments in February, posting a 105 percent gain versus the same month last year

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Aftermarket•by Staff•March 25, 2011

Marmon Highway Technologies Addresses Mandatory "Cost Downs"

Marmon Highway Technologies (MHT) companies announced they will no longer sign multi-year supply agreements with OE customers that call for annual mandatory price reductions or "cost downs"

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