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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 5, 1999

Hyundai Adds Trailer Dealers

Hyundai Precision America has entered the Canadian trailer market with two new dealerships, Ft. Gary Industries, with locations in Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Regina and Calgary, and West Van Inc. in Mississauga, ON. The company has also added

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 5, 1999

Arctic Circle Truckstop Closes For Winter

The Coldfoot Truck Stop in Barrow, AK, shut down its restaurant and hotel rooms Monday for the winter. The truckstop will run through the winter, selling fuel for just eight hours a day with a skeleton staff of three

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 5, 1999

FleetPride Buys Wheels And Brakes

FleetPride, the nation's largest aftermarket distributor of heavy-duty truck parts, is expanding in the Southeast with the acquisition of Atlanta-based Wheels and Brakes Inc

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 4, 1999

Detroit Diesel Posts Record Earnings in Third Quarter

Detroit Diesel Corp. posted record third quarter net income of $11.9 million, up 18% from third quarter 1998

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 4, 1999

Licensing Goes Online

It seems that every day there’s another way for the Internet to make trucking more efficient. Lockheed Martin IMS, the company that offers the PrePass weigh station preclearance service, says it is developing an Internet-based system that takes time and labor out of registration, permitting and fuel tax compliance

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 4, 1999

Ring-Around-Qualcomm at ATA

Challengers surrounded Qualcomm on the American Trucking Assns. convention exhibit floor in Orlando, FL, this week. American Mobile Satellites Corp.'s exhibit was closest, and AMSC was gunning for Qualcomm's popular OmniTRACS product. In sit-downs with AMSC COO

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Drivers•by Staff•November 4, 1999

Cirillo Probe Dropped

Rep. Frank Wolf withdrew his request that the Department of Transportation investigate Julie Cirillo, chief of the Department of Transportation’s truck and bus safety program

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 4, 1999

Silver Eagle Clears Air Over Army Contract

Trailers built for the U.S. Army’s Humvees have become a “political football” with Silver Eagle Manufacturing caught in the middle, says the company’s president, Gary Gaussoin

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 4, 1999

ATA Supports 14 On, 10 Off

As the federal government’s proposed new hours of service regulations wind their way through the tedious review process at the Department of Transportation, the American Trucking Assns. has made it clear what it wants

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Aftermarket•by Staff•November 4, 1999

Oregon Voters Approve Fair Tax Amendment

Oregon voters Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment requiring cars and trucks to pay their fair share of highway construction and maintenance costs. It’s unclear how the vote will affect a spring referendum that would raise the gas tax and do away with the state’s weight-distance tax

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