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Business

Group, dealers team on retrofit trucks

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $5 million to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy to help guarantee loans.

December 16, 2010

Business

Wingfoot Tire opens two centers

Wingfoot Commercial Tire has opened new Wingfoot Truck Care Centers in Russellville, Ark., and Tuscaloosa, Ala. The center in Arkansas is located at 185 Interstate Road on exit 184 of Interstate 40, next to the Flying J. In Tuscaloosa, the new Wingfoot is at 4400 Skyland Blvd. East on exit 76 of Interstate 20/59, sharing […]

December 16, 2010

Channel 19

Positives in trucking dog days in Truckers News — and more

Since I blogged about musician Susanne Spirit’s weekly shows at the TA East in Ontario, Calif., back in March, Spirit has continued to make great strides in combining her trucking-music act with her concern for the welfare of abandoned dogs in kill shelters. Her “Musical Truckin’ Dog Adoption Program,” conducted in concert with the Ramona […]

December 16, 2010

Business

Tennessee court sets date for trucker spy

A man hired by carriers to report unsafe truckers faces charges of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.

December 16, 2010

Business

Zernicke driver named October Trucker Buddy

Zernicke Trucking company driver Chris Winkler was named October Trucker Buddy of the Month, Trucking Buddy International Executive Director Randy Schwartzenburg announced. Winkler volunteers in fourth and fifth grades at Folk Elementary School in Madison, Wis., as part of the outreach’s efforts to help increase students’ achievement in math, social studies and language arts. Trucker […]

December 15, 2010

Business

Spending bill adds truck weight program

A provision has been added to a funding bill that would extend the Maine and Vermont truck weight pilot program for one year.

December 15, 2010

Business

Techs win thousands in Rush contest

Chris Zweifel was named heavy-duty grand champion in the Rush Tech Skills Rodeo, as 65 top truck technicians competed.

December 15, 2010

Home

December: Renamed CSA goes nationwide

The new federal safety program you’ve been hearing about all year expanded to all 50 states this week. Are you ready for it? To get your questions answered about the Compliance Safety Accountability program (formerly known as Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010), review our CSA Drivers Handbook. Want to grasp the whole process in a glance? Check […]

December 14, 2010

Business

Fikes joins wreaths project

Fikes Truck Line recently participated in Wreaths Across America, a non-profit organization that aims to place holiday wreaths at veterans cemeteries across the United States on Wreaths Across America Day.  Jeff Edmonson, a Fikes driver since June 2006, loaded a trailer with wreaths in Harrington, Maine, on Dec. 1. Over the following week, he delivered […]

December 14, 2010

Partners in Business

PIB TIP: GET WITH THE PROGRAM. Owner-operators can

PIB TIP: GET WITH THE PROGRAM. Owner-operators can save an average of 6 cents per gallon when they are able to participate in major carriers’ discount fuel networks. If your fleet has a fuel-optimizer program, use it. An optimizer program helps an owner-operator plan a trip, based on fuel prices and locations in the carrier’s […]

December 14, 2010

Reader Rigs

Eddie Tucker of Cleveland, Tenn., hauls Humvees fo

Eddie Tucker of Cleveland, Tenn., hauls Humvees for the military in his 2006 Kenworth W900. The truck is powered by a 550-hp Caterpillar and a 13-speed transmission.

December 14, 2010

Channel 19

Scenes from the 2010 Rush Tech Skills Rodeo

I’m in San Antonio, Texas, this morning at the site of Rush Truck Centers’ fifth annual Tech Skills Rodeo, which pits 65 (out of more than 700 entering) of the truck dealer/service center network’s best diesel technicians against each other and a set of bugged vehicles. On the heavy-duty side of the competition, 15 techs […]

December 14, 2010