Report: Highway conditions improve
State highway conditions are the best they’ve been in 19 years, according to Reason Foundation.09.09.10
| 2009 highway accident involved a tractor-trailer that plowed into stopped traffic on I-44, killing 10 people.
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| Show floor exhibitor space was up nearly 20 percent over 2009 with almost 450 companies in attendance. 09.09.10
| Fatalities of large truck occupants dropped from 682 in 2008 to 503 in 2009, a 26 percent decline. 09.08.10
| Over the next six years, the plan would include rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads and constructing and maintaining 4,000 miles of rail. ...
Industry Briefs
Freightliner delivery to be celebrated
July 28, 2010
| by: Overdrive Staff
U.S. Xpress Enterprises will receive its 50,000th Freightliner, a Cascadia equipped with a Detroit Diesel DD15, in an Aug. 5 ceremony, the truck maker announced.
The tractor with a 72-in. raised roof sleeper will be presented to U.S. Xpress Enterprises CEO and Co-chairman Max Fuller in a commemoration at 3:30 p.m. EDT at 4080 Jenkins Road, in Chattanooga, Tenn.



