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Update: Navistar, EPA settle suits

Navistar International Corp. said it had reached an agreement May 3 with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that settles lawsuits it had filed in March 2009 concerning the agency’s certification policies for diesel-powered trucks equipped with selective catalytic reduction. The agreement calls for EPA to hold a public workshop or hearing to address the issues […]

May 4, 2010

Reader Rigs

Richard Crenshaw, of Saint Pauls, N.C., owns this

Richard Crenshaw, of Saint Pauls, N.C., owns this 1992 Freightliner FLD 120, equipped with a 470-hp Detroit Diesel. Crenshaw is leased to Triple D Express and hauls general freight in 48 states.

May 4, 2010

Partners in Business

PIB TIP:  MANAGE COST OF TIME TO FUEL. The typical

PIB TIP:  MANAGE COST OF TIME TO FUEL. The typical owner-operator carries 200 gallons of fuel or more, but buys only 100 gallons at a time and takes about 45 minutes per stop to fuel. Often it saves time to put 175 gallons in the tanks instead of continually topping off with 100 gallons or […]

May 4, 2010

Business

Pennsylvania ends truck idling exemption

Trucks were exempt from the idling restriction under a 2008 state law.

May 4, 2010

Business

Navistar, EPA settle suits over SCR certification

The agreement calls for the agency to hold a public workshop or hearing to address the issues Navistar raised.

May 4, 2010

Channel 19

More from greater-Nashville flood

Things continue wet, here, for anyone near the banks of the flooded Cumberland River, which reached levels not seen since well before flood-control efforts largely made it manageable since the last major event in the 1930s, which means that the flood level might easily be described as “100-year” or some longer period — “epic” is probably […]

May 4, 2010

Business

Diesel price surges to 18-month high

The national average price rose 4.4 cents to $3.122 in the latest week, the 10th increase in the past 11 weeks.

May 4, 2010

Business

Flooding strands drivers in Tennessee

The situation at the downtown Nashville TravelCenters of America location was dire for truckers since early Sunday.

May 3, 2010

Business

First phase of lawsuit against port completed

The American Trucking Associations’ lawsuit against the Port of Los Angeles completed oral arguments.

May 3, 2010

Business

Michigan begins texting ban

Texting while driving is a secondary offense that allows law enforcement officials to ticket drivers if they are pulled over for another offense.

May 3, 2010

Business

Hours rules lifted for oil spill

Federal officials temporarily lifted hours-of-service rules for haulers of some emergency supplies to four southeast coastal states.

April 30, 2010

Channel 19

Flatbedders, had enough of tarping? . . .

You might recommend the folks at Fast Wrap to your shipper customers, who do the kind of work you see in the picture here, a wrap of a jet engine. They’ve got mobile crews in more than 60 locations around the country who do the work, and the wrapping material is then recycled by the folks at […]

April 30, 2010