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ATRI has conducted a survey of nearly 100 fleet managers and representing over 114,500 trucks to examine fuel economy and fuel usage among fleets of different sizes and needs.
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Royal Jones was an 18-year-old truck driver when he founded a trucking company in 1981 with truck mechanic Jimmy Ray. The two, who also were race car drivers, were early on obsessed with aerodynamics and fuel efficiency.
Read More →Fears that the trucking industry and the overall economy are hitting a soft patch during the second quarter may be eased a bit following a new report showing truck tonnage in May increased 2.3% from April, turning in a stellar performance.
Read More →Bill Strauss, senior economist and economic advisor at Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, told aftermarket suppliers that the U.S. economy is likely to keep expanding the next couple of years, albeit at a more-typical pace.
Read More →A first-look at how the manufacturing economy is performing this month shows conditions have improved to a two-month high, while a separate report indicates the overall economy improved again in August as the outlook calls for continued growth through the second half of the year.
Read More →Industrial production decreased for the second month in a row during March, adding another sign the economy sputtered in the first quarter of the year.
Read More →What's in a number? When it comes to fuel economy, mpg is only part of the story. Deborah Lockridge explains in her All That's Trucking blog.
Read More →E-commerce is nothing new, but it continues rising to new heights. Smart trucking companies are realizing it’s the next area with a huge growth potential, especially when the overall economy is growing at a moderate rate at best.
Read More →In the early 1990s, it was common to hear economists define a healthy economy as one with gross domestic product growth of around 3% annually.These days, when growth gets close to that “magic number,” it’s greeted with a yawn — and it shouldn’t, says business contributing editor Evan Lockridge.
Read More →When are truck freight levels, pricing and even the economy going to be at the level we are accustomed to seeing? Evan Lockridge recaps the FTR Transportation Conference for his Oct. magazine column.
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