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Channel 19

Trucking to the Bowl Championship Series

Five trucking sponsors have partnered to make possible a college football bowl game to be held on December 18 in Boise, Idaho, with a 5:30 p.m. ET kickoff on ESPN. With the Truckload Carriers Association, broker organization the Transportation Intermediaries Association, the Healthy Trucking Association of America and Women in Trucking, uDrove, a provider of smartphone-centric […]

October 27, 2010

Business

Averitt wins customer service award

Averitt Express, based in Cookeville, Tenn., has won two 2010 Quest for Quality awards given by Logistics Management magazine for outstanding customer service. The awards are in the South/South Central Regional Less-than-Truckload and Third-Party Logistics categories. Read more about the awards at Averitt Express.

October 26, 2010

Home

Website commemorates Overdrive’s 50th

The new website, OverdriveRetro, offers retrospects on news, features and photos from 50 years of trucking history covered by Overdrive magazine for its 50th anniversary of its September 1961 launch. With special attention to the magazine’s back issues and reader interaction, the website has five photo galleries, a section for readers to submit memories and anecdotes about trucking, a […]

October 26, 2010

Partners in Business

PIB TIP: MAINTAIN TIRE PRESSURE. To reduce rolling

PIB TIP: MAINTAIN TIRE PRESSURE. To reduce rolling resistance, check the tire air pressure in all 18 tires and fill them up at least weekly to the manufacturer’s specifications. The trailer tires may belong to your carrier, but why pay the extra cost of pulling a trailer with under-inflated tires? The Partners in Business program […]

October 26, 2010

Reader Rigs

Rusty Allen of Monroe Township, N.J., hauls genera

Rusty Allen of Monroe Township, N.J., hauls general commodities in the Northeast with his 2000 Freightliner classic, shown in the photo. The rig is equipped with a 430-hp Cat and a 10-speed Rockwell tranny. Allen added LED lights to all four sides, aftermarket half-fenders, mud flaps and a 16-in. drop visor.

October 26, 2010

Business

Caterpillar to launch vocational trucks

The trucks are being developed with Navistar International, although details haven’t been released.

October 26, 2010

Business

Some Virginia Interstates to rise to 70 mph

The state will post 70 mph speed limits on 61 percent of the state’s rural Interstates by Dec. 31.

October 26, 2010

Business

Spot freight up in September

TransCore’s spot freight index reached the highest level for the month since 2005.

October 26, 2010

Business

ACT: Used truck prices increase 3 percent

The number of units sold declined by 5 percent during September as dealers reported a tighter supply of late-model equipment.

October 26, 2010

Channel 19

Trucking’s newest competitor: Rail? Forget it. . . .

A new competitor in the freight market is emerging. We’ve written about them from time to time, of course, from all the attention the railroads are getting on Capitol Hill and on the airwaves to those nifty cargo bikes eating into local delivery drivers’ payloads. Enter the pedestrian. The Super Power Pusher (pictured), say makers […]

October 26, 2010

Business

National diesel price falls

After three weeks of increases, the average weekly retail on-highway diesel price dropped this week.

October 26, 2010

Business

Daimler, Walmart team on hybrid truck

Daimler Trucks North America LLC and Walmart have teamed to build a hybrid electric Freightliner Cascadia.

October 25, 2010