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Business

Mercer ex-employee sentenced for embezzling

Woman had embezzled over $1 million from the owner-operator truckload carrier over an eight-year period.

January 13, 2012

Business

Top owner-operator to get Cummins-powered Dodge

Contenders are Kirby Killgore of O & S Trucking, Larry Severson of Dart Transit and Bryan Smith of Art Pape Transfer.

January 12, 2012

Business

Focus on health coming

Recommendations that could help frame a final rule regulating obstructive sleep apnea are in the works.

January 12, 2012

Business

Cascadia production to ramp up

The Freightliner Truck plant in Cleveland, N.C., plans to add 1,100 jobs by year’s end to make more Cascadias, Daimler Trucks North America announced. The majority of the positions will be filled with recalled workers who were laid off in 2009, and hiring is slated to begin in early February. The additional workers represent a […]

January 12, 2012

Business

I-80 closures set for Nebraska

Lanes near Lincoln, Neb., are scheduled to be closed beginning Jan. 16 for construction.

January 12, 2012

Business

Mack’s Titan to make National Geographic TV debut

A Mack Titan with a Mack MP10 engine will be featured on the National Geographic Channel’s Ultimate Factories TV series at 8 p.m. EST this Saturday, the Greensboro, N.C.-based truck maker said. The hour-long episode will take viewers behind the scenes to show details of building the truck and its features. Filming for the episode […]

January 12, 2012

Channel 19

Enter winter trucking photo competition, win cash

While Truckers News‘ monthly photo contests have gone on hiatus, the folks at job placement organization Truckers America have picked up the torch and are offering a cash incentive for haulers who can enter with the best winter trucking photo you have. With a snowy system passing through the Midwest and bearing down on the […]

January 12, 2012

Business

Court combines cases opposing cross-border plan

FMCSA has granted operating authority to a second Mexican carrier.

January 12, 2012

Channel 19

Dodging bullets from on high

Look up, drivers. Just when you think you’re safe — rig in the lane, four-wheelers keeping a good distance off your back bumper, new regs falling from on high fully accounted for — occasionally, something like this happens. Click through the link to watch a video interview (which aired last week on a local Georgia […]

January 11, 2012

Business

Charlotte Diesel Super Show set for Oct. 5-6

Show will offer truck drag races, Custom Rigs’ Pride & Polish truck beauty contest and Hooter’s wing eating contest.

January 11, 2012

Business

Freight index up in November

Freight TSI rose 0.1 percent in November from October and 4.8 percent from a year earlier.

January 11, 2012

Channel 19

‘Shipping wars’ TV series starts tonight on A&E

The Austin American-Statesman reminds us that the latest in the phenomenon of truck-driving reality-TV series debuts tonight, with back-to-back half-hour episodes of ‘Shipping Wars’ occupying the 9 p.m. (ET and PT) hour on A&E. The debate over whether the show will be a boon to the image of drivers in the public imagination has already […]

January 10, 2012