U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has created a team at the U.S. Department of Transportation to coordinate the DOT's role in President Obama's economic recovery program
Read More →A Canadian company says it has an environmentally safe alternative to road salts that won't cause the kinds of corrosion problems that have been plaguing the trucking industry since the introduction of liquid de-icers containing magnesium chloride and calcium chloride
Read More →ArvinMeritor recently presented Wal-Mart Stores, in Bentonville, Ark., with a prototype heavy-duty truck equipped with the first Meritor diesel-electric drivetrain
Read More →The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has joined Con-way Freight to begin field operational testing of an integrated crash warning system installed in commercial trucks under the Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety System program
Read More →Truckload and LTL demand are "extraordinarily weak" and while capacity has been declining rapidly, it is not keeping up with the drop in demand, according to John Larkin of Stifel Nicolaus Transportation Research
Read More →Cummins reported its fifth consecutive year of record sales and profits, despite significant global economic challenges that negatively affected fourth quarter performance
Read More →Kelley Fleet Services, Mission Viejo, Calif., has expanded its service relationship with Qwest Communications International, bringing the total number of Qwest vehicles maintained by KFS to over 5,700 vehicles in Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona
Read More →CK Commercial Vehicle Research reports that their Fleet Equipment Buying Index for the first quarter of 2009 fell 9 percent from fourth-quarter 2008 figures
Read More →The average price of a gallon of diesel is now more than a dollar less than it was a year ago, falling 2.2 cents from last week
Read More →Wal-Mart announced it will test two new types of heavy-duty commercial hybrid trucks and two different alternatively fueled heavy duty trucks as a part of the company's efforts to build a more sustainable trucking fleet
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