The Western Star 'Design Our Star' truck hits the road pulling OOIDA's Spirit of the American Trucker tour trailer. It will make appearances at truck shows, conferences and truck stops.
Read More →May's preliminary net order figures for Class 8 are the strongest since February, while Class 5-7 net orders slumped 27% compared to a very strong month in April.
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Truck driver hours of service took center stage Tuesday as Senators grilled Anne Ferro, chief of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, on the new 34-hour restart provision. The exchanges during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the federal highway program were a prelude to a showdown Thursday on the restart.
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New orders for manufactured goods were up for the third consecutive month in April, rising 0.7% to $499.8 billion. April was at the highest level since the series was first published on a NAICS basis in 1992 and followed a 1.5 percent March increase.
Read More →Hino Motor Sales U.S.A., and Telogis announce a partnership to provide the next generation telematics platform for Hino commercial trucks.
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Black Book reports modest declines in all medium and heavy duty used truck segments, consistent with good demand and typical depreciation rates.
Read More →Declining feedstock prices are bring down the delivered price of diesel exhaust fluid in most regions of the country.
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Class 8 orders have now had sixteen consecutive months with year-over-year increases. Class 8 orders for the latest six month period through May annualize to 343,000 units.
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Perdo Ferro succeeds Daniel Randon, who is now CFO of the Randon Group.
Read More →Australians seem to take truck safety pretty seriously. A carrier and two managers were recently fined $1.25 million for repeated speeding offenses and tampering with speed limiters.
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