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CARB extends ‘Truck and Bus’ regulation deadline

The deadline has been extended to March 30 from Jan. 31 for fleet owners to supply information about upgrading their trucks.

January 25, 2012

Trucker Buddy David Kuklewicz is ‘the whole package’

David Kuklewicz has been named Trucker Buddy International’s Trucker Buddy of the Month for October 2011. The trucker was nominated by Deborah Jagow Wynes, the special education teacher he has worked with at Barker Junior/Senior High School in Barker, N.Y., for the last year. Through the program, he applied real life experience for lessons in […]

January 25, 2012

TransCore: Spot loads drop in December; higher for year

Loads declined 14 percent in December from November but were 25 percent higher than the previous year.

January 25, 2012

Pet rescue to host fundraiser

Operation Roger Truckers Pet Transportation, of Joshua, Texas, will host its fifth annual auction at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 24th, in the Papa John’s parking lot following the Mid America Truck Show in Louisville, Ky. Operation Roger, as well as several other trucking related charities, will sell truck related items, handcrafted quilts and jewelry, among […]

January 25, 2012

Trucking fruit in Obama’s energy, manufacturing messages

If you missed last night’s State of the Union address, the President followed in predecessors’ footsteps by detailing a veritable laundry list of election-year policy initiatives with no small measure of specific requests for the deadlocked Congress — many of which, it’s sure, will not see the light of day this year. All the same, […]

January 25, 2012

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NATSO opposes I-70 tolls

Truck stop organization is against possible tolls on freeway between Kansas City and St. Louis.

January 25, 2012

Survey: Carriers hit by health care changes

Recent health care law changes will impact more than 80 percent of carriers that responded to a recent survey by Transport Capital Partners.

January 24, 2012

Groups want hours of service case dismissed

Previous settlement agreement wanted to change 2008 hours of service rule.

January 24, 2012

Tonnage index surges in December

Last year, tonnage increased 5.9 percent over the previous year, which was the biggest annual rise since 1998, according to ATA.

January 24, 2012

Diesel price dips

The national average price dipped 0.6-cent to $3.848 through Jan. 23.

January 23, 2012

FMCSA meeting to address sleep apnea

Feb. 6 meeting will finalize recommendations of the joint subcommittee on obstructive sleep apnea.

January 23, 2012

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Judge dismisses Navistar SCR emissions suit

Company sought to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to recall 2010 model year engines using selective catalytic reduction.

January 23, 2012

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