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Equipment•by Staff•November 17, 2009

Detroit-Windsor Truck Ferry to Close for Improvement Project

Truckers that use the Detroit-Windsor Truck Ferry to get their hazmat and oversized loads across the border are facing a long detour for the next few months

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Drivers•by Staff•November 17, 2009

Pressure Grows to Prohibit Flammables in Tanker Wet Lines

The pressure is on in Washington to get flammable liquids out of the pipes beneath cargo tanks. These "wet lines" can carry up to 50 gallons of cargo. In a crash they occasionally rupture and spill their contents, sometimes to fatal effect. That happened last July in New Jersey, when a car struck a gasoline tanker, wedged beneath the tank and burned in the spill of 13 gallons of gas from the wet lines

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Fleet Management•by Staff•November 17, 2009

Fast Lane Transportation Opens New Intermodal Facility

Fast Lane Transportation, a provider of intermodal transportation and equipment services throughout California, has acquired an 80-acre intermodal crossdock and equipment depot to serve rail logistics providers, trucking companies and equipment leasing companies

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Drivers•by Staff•November 17, 2009

A. Duie Pyle Grows Warehousing, Rail-Side Operations

A. Duie Pyle recently opened the doors of its new 243,000-square-foot, rail-sided warehouse in Westfield, Massachusetts

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 17, 2009

FreightCenter.com Announces Brokerage Logistics Division

FreightCenter.com, a third-party logistics provider and web-based freight solutions company, has announced a new brokerage logistics division

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 17, 2009

FedEx Freight to Test Zero Emission Tyrano Truck

FedEx Freight will test a tractor powered by the hydrogen/electric hybrid Tyrano drive train from Vision Industries Corp

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Drivers•by Staff•November 17, 2009

Diesel Prices Still Hover Around $2.80; Crude Prices Climb

The average price of a gallon of diesel fell about a penny over the past week, with Monday's numbers from the Department of Energy showing a national average of $2.79, down from last week's $2.801

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 17, 2009

Top CEOs Launch Electrification Coalition

More than a dozen business leaders, including Frederick W. Smith, chairman, president & CEO of FedEx, came together Monday to form the Electrification Coalition. The Coalition is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization that wants to facilitate the deployment of electric vehicle

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 16, 2009

October Truck Numbers Point to Possible Pre-Buy

Truck sales jumped in October compared to the previous month, although they're still down from year-ago numbers

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 16, 2009

Kenworth Sales Company Opens Parts and Service Facility in Wyoming

Kenworth Sales Company has relocated its parts facility in Rock Springs, Wyo., to a new, much larger parts and service location near Interstate 80

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