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Business

Weavil named Highway Angel

Joseph Weavil notified authorities and led them to an accident scene that was not visible from the road.

April 26, 2010

Business

Peterbilt 384 wins ATD truck of year award

The other heavy-duty truck nominees were: Kenworth T660 Extended Day Cab and Freightliner Coronado.

April 26, 2010

Business

CARB to review diesel engine emissions policies

CARB has asked staff to draft changes to regulations that will mitigate potential effects of a bad economy on business.

April 26, 2010

Channel 19

Captain Kirk, owner-operator

The parallels between space travel and trucking have not gone unremarked-upon in recent times — you might recall a blog post from a year and more ago I made about an online video game whose concept was cargo hauling in deep space — and considering the decades-long phenomenon that has been the Star Trek TV series and movies, it was […]

April 26, 2010

Overdrive Extra

Let us now rant over the unfairness of safety technology

You wouldn’t normally equate a person’s economic status with the safety of their vehicle, but a recent study links them. The study, appearing in the April issue of Traffic Injury Prevention, is talking about four-wheelers. However, the same principle could apply to heavy trucks’ history with anti-lock brakes and slack adjusters, or to current trends […]

April 23, 2010

Channel 19

Lester “Buckshot” Winfree rises from owner-operator to 2010 person of the year

Lester “Buckshot” Winfree (pictured) has come a long way from his start in trucking in the 1960s. When he launched the Winfree Cattle & Rice company with two trucks late that decade, writes Record Newspapers reporter Robert Hankins in a story accompanying the newspapers’ naming of Winfree as Orange County, Texas, “Person of the Year” for 2010, Winfree couldn’t […]

April 23, 2010

Business

Study: EPA rules driving new truck demand

Fleets appear to be taking advantage of build slots for power units with pre-2010 EPA engines while they are still available, FTR says.

April 23, 2010

Business

Navistar drops emissions equipment suit against CARB

The truck and engine maker had asked a state court to rule CARB was improperly certifying 2010 diesel engines equipped with selective catalytic reduction.

April 23, 2010

Channel 19

Flex time — ATA lays down support for sleeper berth/HOS flexibility in comments to feds

The latest wrinkle in the ongoing debate over potential changes to trucking hours-of-service regulations, for which so many drivers have offered various proposals for injecting flexibility into the system, is the biggest trucking-company organization in the nation’s support for codifying split rest in the sleeper berth. “Allowing shorter documented sleeper berth periods [other than the currently […]

April 22, 2010

Business

ATA: Modify sleeper berth rules for more flexibility

FMCSA should better address the true causes of fatigue in transportation.

April 22, 2010

Business

Kentucky bans texting behind the wheel

Kentucky became the 23rd state to ban texting for all drivers, following Nebraska last week.

April 22, 2010

Business

$48.8B in highway funds ready

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $48.8 billion in highway funds is available for federal projects.

April 21, 2010