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Fleet Management•by Staff•December 16, 2011

TransCore's Freight Index Up 36%

TransCore's North American Freight Index climbed 36% last month compared to November 2010, making it the consecutive month with the highest same-month volume since 2005

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Aftermarket•by Staff•December 16, 2011

Worldwide Equipment Acquires Cherokee Kenworth

Worldwide Equipment, a heavy-duty truck dealer group based in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, has purchased the Columbia and Greenville S.C. locations of Cherokee Kenworth

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Aftermarket•by Staff•December 16, 2011

RAIR and ITI Team to Provide Personalized Real-Time Training

RAIR, a division of DriveCam and a provider of web-based safety and compliance solutions, has partnered with Instructional Technologies, Inc. to provide ITI's Pro-TREAD online safety training to DOT-regulated fleets

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Aftermarket•by Staff•December 16, 2011

New Petro Opens in Dodge City, Ala.

TravelCenters of America has opened its 69th Petro Stopping Center location at I-65, exit 299 in Dodge City, AL

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Drivers•by Staff•December 16, 2011

YRC Worldwide Sells Glen Moore to Celadon

Indiana-based Celadon continued its recent streak of acquisitions by buying a signifiant portion of the assets of YRC Worldwide's Glen Moore truckload subsidiary

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Drivers•by Staff•December 15, 2011

Cell Phone Restrictions Now in Effect

Interstate truck and bus drivers are prohibited from using handheld cell phones while driving as of today, Jan. 3, under a final rule posted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

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Aftermarket•by Staff•December 15, 2011

Rush Enterprises Buys West Texas Peterbilt

Rush Enterprises has acquired certain assets of West Texas Peterbilt, a Peterbilt dealership group with five locations in Texas

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Drivers•by Staff•December 15, 2011

New Oil Category in the Works for Next Round of Engine Technology

To help meet the federal government's new fuel economy regulations for heavy trucks, engine makers are looking to improved engine oils, including lower-viscosity oils that can perform under more demanding conditions. Earlier this month, a team was formed by the American Petroleum Institute to develop a new API oil-service category, to replace the current CJ-4. And for the first time, there will be two subcategories to deal with the issue of backward compatibility

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Aftermarket•by Staff•December 15, 2011

Shipper Group Plans Pro-Trucking Day in D.C.

With pending legislation and advocacy issues threatening to dramatically raise transportation and supply chain costs, more than 10 industry associations, led by the shipper group NASSTRAC, have agreed to participate in a pro-trucking Washington fly-in on Feb. 1

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Fleet Management•by Staff•December 15, 2011

Pulse of Commerce Index Increased 0.1% in November

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index, issued on Tuesday by the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Ceridian Corporation rose 0.1% in November following a 1.1% increase in October

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