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Business
Pearce named Highway Angel
Truck driver for Flying J Inc. has been honored for pulling an accident victim from her overturned car.
April 8, 2010
Channel 19
Amid industry discussion of EOBR rule, smartphone logging apps proliferate
Though the FMCSA’s just-published limited-mandate and performance-standards rule for electronic onboard recorders (EOBRs) for logging did next to nothing to open up the market for tools beyond the paper log and expensive devices tethered to the truck’s ECM, smartphone applications with similar functionality continue to proliferate. The UDrove app and online storage service, released earlier this year (functional […]
April 8, 2010
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Business
Pa. I-80 tolling rejected
The Federal Highway Administration turned down the state’s application because it would have used funds for projects other than I-80.
April 7, 2010
Business
DOE: Diesel to stay above $3
Diesel will average $2.95 this year and $3.12 in 2011, the agency said.
April 7, 2010
Business
Port of Los Angeles to buy Class 8 hybrid truck
Port has awarded Vision Industries Corp. a purchase order for a zero-emissions Class 8 hybrid-electric truck.
April 7, 2010
Channel 19
Third time’s the charm? Feds say no to tolling I-80 in Penn.
A development that could mark the end of a long saga (you could make a case that it goes back to the 1980s — heck, even that it begins prior to the establishment of the Interstate Highway System itself) happened yesterday with the third federal rejection of an application by the state of Pennsylvania for authority […]
April 7, 2010
Business
Truck orders increase 35% in March
March Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American manufacturers rose to 10,505 units.
April 6, 2010
Truck orders are increasing but remain at low level. (Photo Todd Dills)
Channel 19
In praise of a good scale
A scale can be the bane of a truck driver’s existence, turning a long-held friendly rural-shipper relationship sour when an inaccurate estimation of cargo weight is found faulty 50 miles down the road at the nearest weigh point.
April 6, 2010
Kenyan weighbridge; Photo by Anthony Kamau
Business
Diesel price passes $3
For the first time in 17 months, the national average retail price of a gallon of diesel topped $3.
April 6, 2010
Diesel fuel prices rise nationwide.
Business
Drivers named ‘Angels’
Marten Transport driver James McDowell and Danny Carmichael, a driver for Trucks Inc., have been selected as Highway Angels.
April 5, 2010
Business
Iowa latest state to ban texting while driving
For adult drivers, using a handheld cell phone or texting is a secondary offense.
April 5, 2010
Channel 19
Trucking through hours-of-service flexibility and EOBRs
With a new rule mandating electronic on-board recorders for a boosted number of hours-of-service (HOS) noncompliant carriers, the ongoing HOS listening sessions and FMCSA review of the current hours rule and the expectation among industry parties that an across-the-board EOBR mandate may be in the offing several years down the road, the issue of work time […]
April 5, 2010
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