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Driversby StaffFebruary 22, 2010

Diesel Sees First Boost in Five Weeks; Oil Hovers Around $80

After falling for five straight weeks, diesel prices picked up this week, rising 7.6 cent

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Fleet Managementby StaffFebruary 22, 2010

Domestic Container Activity Improves in Fourth Quarter

The intermodal market saw some modest improvement in the fourth quarter, with domestic container volume up 9 percent from the year-ago quarter

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Driversby StaffFebruary 22, 2010

DOT's New Sample Bill Encourages States to Ban Texting

The U.S. Department of Transportation has released a sample bill for state legislatures to use when prohibiting texting while driving

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Aftermarketby StaffFebruary 22, 2010

GreenRoad Secures Financing For GreenRoad 360

GreenRoad, which provides driver safety technology, has secured $10 million in financing to continue the deployment of its GreenRoad 360 service among existing and new customers

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Aftermarketby StaffFebruary 22, 2010

DTNA Gives Western Star Its Own Engineering Arm

Daimler Trucks North America has launched a new engineering division dedicated to Western Star Truck

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Driversby StaffFebruary 22, 2010

CRST Malone Offers Lease Purchase Program, Sign-On Bonus

Truckload carrier CRST Malone has introduced a new lease purchase program as well as a sign-on bonus offer of up to $1,000 through mid-March for new owner-operators

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Safety & Complianceby StaffFebruary 21, 2010

Recession's Silver Lining: Highways Are Safer

It turns out that recession is not unrelieved misery. Amid the layoffs, business failures and bankruptcies, belt-tightening and anxiety there is some good news. When we go into a recession, highway safety improves

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Aftermarketby StaffFebruary 19, 2010

Brenntag Adds SCR Truck to Northeast Fleet

Brenntag North America, Inc., a supplier of diesel exhaust fluid, has taken delivery of a new Freightliner Cascadia SCR tractor with a Detroit Diesel DD15 engine

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Aftermarketby StaffFebruary 19, 2010

Polk: New Vehicle Market Bleak in '09; Used Shows Promise

The newest Polk Commercial Vehicle Solutions report paints a bleak picture of the commercial vehicle market in 2009, with the number of new commercial vehicle registrations for Classes 3-8 down 36.8 percent from 2008 to 312,400 units

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Driversby StaffFebruary 19, 2010

Kansas Court Rules in Favor of Furniture Company on Driver Status

A Kansas Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Nebraska Furniture Mart, ruling that NFM was not an "employer" as defined by the Kansas Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours Law, and had no obligation to pay the truck driver

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