Rising to the defense of the heavy truck antilock brake requirement, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week rejected a petition to drop the standard or give drivers the option not to use it
American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves said that while President Obama's jobs proposal could boost employment temporarily, it is no replacement for passing long-overdue multiyear transportation legislation
The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index fell 1.4% in August on a seasonally and workday adjusted basis, following a 0.2% decline in July
The National Transportation Safety Board recommended banning mobile phone use by commercial drivers Tuesday following its investigation of 2010 cross-median truck crash that claimed 11 lives
Old Dominion Freight Line opened its newest service center in Madison, WIs., after experiencing sustained growth in the region
Utility Fleet Sales has acquired the assets of Powerline Equipment Sales based in Wentzville, Mo
GE Capital Fleet Services will host a webinar on Sept. 20, focusing on the U.S. Department of Transportation's Compliance, Safety, Accountability safety enforcement program
National on-highway diesel prices dropped six-tenths of a cent from last week to $3.862, following a rise of more than 4 cents the week previous
Congress is considering a clean six-month extension of the federal highway program, which would fund the program at its current level until March 31, 2012. The House bill, introduced by Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, will be taken up this week, according to a schedule posted by the Rules Committee
A Mexican trucking company, Grupo Behr de Baja California, has cleared its pre-authorization audit for providing long-distance service into the U.S. as part of the pending cross-border pilot program
A nearly 50-year-old bridge taking I-64 across the Ohio River between New Albany, Ind., and Louisville, Ky., has been closed after cracks were found in two support beams
Bendix this week will give legislators, governmental agencies and others in the Washington, D.C., area a chance to experience current and future safety technologies
Sales of trucks powered by natural gas will grow faster than the rest of the North American Market over the next several years, according to Frost & Sullivan, an industry analysis firm. A new report predicts that North American sales of Class 6-8 LNG and CNG vehicles will rise to nearly 30,000 by 2017. That's up from just 1,950 last year, slightly less than 1% of North American sales
Pacer International is testing a number of liquefied natural gas powered trucks for its Southern California Cartage fleet. The trucks will operate through Pacer's cartage subsidiary, Pacer Cartage
More than half of American commercial heavy trucks are six to nine years old or more and seemingly ripe for replacement, according to a survey of fleet executives by Newport Business Media
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