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Business
Agencies eye national heavy truck fuel standards
Federal agencies announced fuel economy and greenhouse gas reduction standards for heavy-duty commercial vehicles.
October 25, 2010
Business
TCA changes stance to favor higher truck weights
The Truckload Carriers Association now supports increasing the allowable truck weight from 80,000 to 88,000 pounds.
October 23, 2010
Channel 19
Allen Smith, others at Memphis Trucking Expo Oct. 23
It’s a banner month for first-time trucking shows in my home state of Tennessee. After Nashville last week, not to be outdone, of course, is Memphis, the site of the first annual Memphis Trucking Expo, presented by the folks at Worldwide Transport and Permit Service. If you missed Jan McCarter and Doug Jones (pictured) in […]
October 22, 2010
Janand Doug
Business
Oct. 23-24: California hosts Pride & Polish
The final Pride & Polish event of 2010 will take place at the Truckin’ for Kids show in Irwindale, Calif., at the Toyota Speedway. The show will feature truck drags and a Wash and Shine event, along with the Custom Rigs’ Pride & Polish beauty show. Truckin’ for Kids celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The […]
October 22, 2010
Truckinforkids
Business
Report: Class 8 truck orders surge in September
September net orders of heavy-duty commercial vehicles increased 37 percent from a year earlier.
October 21, 2010
Channel 19
How much of your business goes to the trash?
The folks over 40mpg.org, the site of an advocacy organization working to make “40 miles per gallon the standard for all automobiles in the United States,” makes note of recent automakers’ trumpeting of operations changes making certain of their U.S. plants zero-waste facilities, most notably Subaru and Honda. Which sent my computational brain into immediate […]
October 21, 2010
Business
Fed reports mixed transportation picture
Federal Reserve Districts reported “modest” economic growth from September to early October, with mixed transportation results.
October 21, 2010
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Business
Agency provides CSA test report to Congress
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration disclosed the 30-month field test of its Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 yielded positive results.
October 21, 2010
Overdrive Extra
So you want a good deal on a low-mileage truck…
Sales of trucks, like everything else, slumped badly during the recession. Now there’s a shortage of used trucks in the sweet spot of four to five model years old, and it’s not going away anytime soon.
October 20, 2010
Business
Charlotte Diesel Super Show to expand in 2011
Next year’s show will enlarge the diesel truck segment and add a construction pavilion.
October 20, 2010
Channel 19
Novelist takes literary achievement to the truckstop
Beyond the spotlight of trucking industry news in July this year a novelist was hard at work promoting a book, her first, in which one of four main characters is a long-hauler turned local delivery driver struggling to maintain a connection to his son. What’s more is where the writer was promoting the novel. Making three […]
October 20, 2010
Barbrichardson Not Her Truck
Business
DOT awards $600M for infrastructure projects
More than 40 capital construction projects and 33 planning projects in 40 states will share nearly $600 million.
October 20, 2010
(Courtesy Florida Department of Transportation)
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