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Aftermarket•by Staff•September 11, 2000

Freightliner Announces Recall on Bendix ABS

Freightliner has entered the second phase of its recall of vehicles equipped with the defective Bendix ABS EC 17-1030R electronic control units

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Drivers•by Staff•September 11, 2000

CCX Expands Service Coverage in Northeast

Con-Way Central Express, an LTL carrier based in Ann Arbor, Mich., recently opened a new service center facility in Borzah, Conn

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Drivers•by Staff•September 11, 2000

AAA Report Predicts Traffic Problems Will Continue

Even though the summer travel season has come to end, the American Automobile Association says don't expect too much relief from traffic congestion, thanks to highway construction projects

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Aftermarket•by Staff•September 11, 2000

DaimlerChrysler To Take Control of Mitsubishi

Twenty years of dodging recalls has driven Mitsubishi Motors into the arms of DaimlerChrysler

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Aftermarket•by Staff•September 11, 2000

Owner-Operators Ask Clinton for Help on Fuel

OPEC has agreed to increase production in order to drive down fuel prices, but owner-operators still are pressing for legislative relief. In a letter last week to President Clinton, Jim Johnston, president of Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Assn., pleaded for leadership on a bill to create a national fuel surcharge. The surcharge is needed to forestall a catastrophe for small-business truckers as fuel prices rise this autumn, Johnson wrote.

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Aftermarket•by Staff•September 10, 2000

Stars & Stripes Qualifiers Win at Walcott

The second group of six qualifiers for the Stars and Stripes truck show series championship were named Saturday at the Iowa 80 truckstop in Walcott, Iowa

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Aftermarket•by Staff•September 9, 2000

Waste Management Gets Great Deal on Clean Trucks

Through a unique partnership with an electricity supplier, giant refuse hauler Waste Management has come up with a cost-effective way to convert trucks to cleaner natural gas fuel

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Aftermarket•by Staff•September 8, 2000

ATA Fills Environment, Safety Posts

The American Trucking Associations has filled two key positions in its environmental and safety regulatory operations

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Aftermarket•by Staff•September 8, 2000

NTSB Makes Truck Parking Recommendations

After the National Transportation Safety Board held its series of truck and bus safety hearings last year, it decided to look further into the issue of truck parking. The board last week issued several recommendations to help address the parking shortage, which is a key issue in the debate about truck driver fatigue

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Aftermarket•by Staff•September 8, 2000

The 3PLs Strike Back

Entrepreneur Ben Gordon says the conventional Internet wisdom -- that the intermediary is dead -- "is dead wrong." Gordon, president of Web startup 3PLex.com, told Truckinginfo.com that for the past six months to a year, transportation people

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