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LOUISVILLE, KY -- Mack emphasized fuel economy for its Pinnacle highway tractors -- saying it's possible to achieve fuel savings of 12.5 percent -- at the Mid-America Trucking Show, showing refined roof and chassis fairings, along with additional Econodyne ratings for its Mack Power engines and upscale interior trim
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has settled a suit by three trucking associations over information published in the CSA program. The agency said in the Wednesday announcement that it will change the way it displays CSA safety scores, in response to the carrier groups' contention that the original plan was flawed and should have gone through a public-comment procedure
Read More →BAF Technologies, a subsidiary of Clean Energy Fuels, has expanded its compressed natural gas product line to include Ford vehicles equipped with the BAF bi-fuel CNG system.
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United Parcel Service has ordered 48 road tractors that will burn liquified natural gas while pulling trailers up and down Interstate 15 between southern California and northern Utah
Read More →UPS has purchased another 48 heavy tractor trucks equipped to run on Liquefied Natural Gas, bolstering its continuing effort to reduce the emissions of its truck fleet while taking a step toward energy security
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A spokesman for the organizations that sued the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration over hours of service rules said the agency's proposed changes might be enough to get them to drop their suit. Henry Jasney, general counsel of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, would not say the groups won't return to court, but said the changes in the proposed rule do correct some of the problems the court found in previous rulings against FMCSA
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A truckstop electrification project is using a combination of federal grants and private funding to build truck electrification hookups at 50 locations on five major Interstate corridors, and will offer incentives for fleets to have 5,000 trucks outfitted with the equipment needed to plug in
Read More →UPS announced adjusted better-than-expected earnings this week for the fourth quarter of 2010
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The national average price of a gallon of diesel was up again this week, rising 3.7 cents from last week
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is moving ahead on a rulemaking on speed limiters for heavy trucks, which had its start four years ago with petitions by two trucking interest groups
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