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Meet Leon ‘Butch’ Mueller and his 1971 Pete 358

Yesterday at Roehl Transport, after a day of talking with TCA/Truckers News Company Driver of the Year John Moeller (pictured here behind me in one of his Roehl Freightliner Coronado’s drives’ hubs), Roehl President and COO Rick Roehl and I were talking about owner-operator Bryan Dax as I prepared to head off to Two Rivers, […]

March 21, 2012

Marten ups detention pay

Driver detention pay has been increased $2, making the pay $17 per hour, Mondovi, Wis.-based Marten Transport announced. The increase applies to drivers who have to wait more than two hours to be loaded or unloaded at customer locations. Any driver identified as consistently having extreme detention issues will continue to earn $20 per hour. […]

March 21, 2012

Cummins: 2014 compliant engines ready in 2013

The new engines will deliver up to a 2 percent fuel economy improvement over comparable engines being produced today.

March 21, 2012

New IdleAir service starts

A new IdleAir service has opened in at the Love’s truck stop off Interstate 10 at exit 302 near Benson, Ariz. The shore power service provider will offer free, limited service through March 31. Premium service will also be available for $1.25 per hour, excluding tax, through April 30. The location is one of […]

March 21, 2012

Bendix web-based service integrates safety systems

A Bendix web portal for fleet operators connects to three of the company’s most powerful onboard safety technologies.

March 21, 2012

Trio to perform at trucking show

Three performing groups will headline the free concert March 23 following the show.

March 20, 2012

ATA questions crash accountability decision

ATA laments decision by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to hold trucking responsible in its CSA program for every truck-involved crash.

March 20, 2012

Tennessee road reopens

A rockslide had closed part of U.S. 129/State Route 115 approximately nine miles north of the Tennessee-North Carolina state line.

March 20, 2012

Spot market index in February down year-over-year

TransCore’s DAT North American Freight index was up 24 percent in February from January, but declined 5.2 percent compared with February 2011.

March 20, 2012

Trucking firm owner admits to logbook violations

A Lancaster, Pa., trucking company owner has admitted he ordered drivers to falsify logbooks.

March 20, 2012

One driver’s Wisconsin idyll — photos from the road

On the road yesterday in Wisconsin I happened into this moment of contented beauty — in the backyard of 56-year-old Roehl Transport flatbed division driver John Moeller. Moeller was named the TCA/Truckers News Company Driver of the Year just weeks back at the TCA annual meeting in Florida, and his prize Cummins-powered Dodge Ram 2500 […]

March 20, 2012

I-80 work to begin in Nebraska

I-80 construction work is scheduled to begin this week and week of March 26.

March 19, 2012

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