The Cass Freight Index shows February shipments up 2.6 percent from last month and 11.4 percent from last year, while freight expenditures are up 35 percent year over year
Read More →Import cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to be up 11 percent in March over the same month last year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.
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The price of crude oil rose past $104 a barrel Friday to end the week at the highest level since September 2008, as bad news from Libya and good news about the U.S. economy spurred supply-demand worries
Read More →The annual World's Most Admired Companies report released last week listed FedEx as the 8th ranked company, up five positions from the organization's rank in 2010
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In 2010, DAF Trucks N.V. -- a subsidiary of Paccar -- further strengthened its position on the European truck market
Read More →All agents in the National Van Lines family across the U.S. have joined the American Moving & Storage Association effective immediately, the two organizations announced last Friday
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Registrations of new commercial vehicles were up more than 12 percent in 2010 over the previous year, and used commercial vehicle registrations in the U.S. hit a record level in 2010, according to Polk
Read More →Judging for the third annual Truck of the Year award is set for Friday, March 11, following the close of the NTEA's Work Truck Show, according to American Truck Dealers, which sponsors the competition in co-operation with trade-press publishers
Read More →AAA last week put clean diesel engines on its list of the top new vehicle technologies designed to increase performance, reduce environmental impacts and improve safety. While they're referring to passenger cars, this is good news for trucking's image, as well
Read More →Next week's Work Truck Show will be "bigger than ever," with more than 550 exhibitors covering 500,000 square feet in the Indianapolis Convention Center, says the National Truck Equipment Association
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