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.
09.09.10
| 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. ...
Equipment News
Yokohama tire prices increase
February 4, 2010
| by: Lanier Norville
| Prices on light and medium commercial truck tires will increase up to 7 percent March 1, Yokohama Tire Corp. announced. The Fullerton, Calif.-based tire maker said the price increase is because of higher costs of raw material and energy-related expenses.
In-line adjustments, as well, will be announced at a later date. Off-the-road, light-truck and consumer tires will not be affected by the increase. |



