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Business

Truck design contest opens to college students

University students are eligible to enter truck designs suitable for owner-operators for the annual contest Design the Future of Pride & Profit, Portland, Ore.-based Freightliner Trucks announced. The winner will receive a $20,000 scholarship and option for a paid internship at the truck maker. The competition will run from November through February 2012. Three finalists […]

November 28, 2011

Channel 19

Setting the pace with owner-operator Henry Albert

Sunday’s post on Overdrive 2007 Trucker of the Year Henry Albert’s blog caught my eye with what it says about thinking outside the box to ensure success in running an independent business. In the post, Albert visits an old haunt of his, Charlotte’s Metrolina speedway (the old grandstands here pictured by Albert), shuttered long since […]

November 8, 2011

Channel 19

Salve for your shifting hand…

And your soul, says the maker of a line of shift knobs built from precious rocks. “If I’m ever stuck in traffic or I’m stressed out by circumstances in my life, the mere acts of looking at and touching one of these shift knobs drains away the stress,” the maker notes on its website, gemstoneshiftknobs.com. […]

November 5, 2011

Business

Commercial vehicle registrations up

New commercial vehicle registrations are set to reach 440,000 units for 2011, an increase of 17.6 percent over 2010.

November 3, 2011

Business

Daimler to increase Western Star production in Portland

Manufacturer aims to add second shift and ramp up production at its Western Star plant in Portland, Ore.

October 21, 2011

Business

Used Class 8 sales drop

For the year, sales of Class 8 used trucks are down 7.4 percent from the same time period last year.

September 26, 2011

Business

Peterbilt LNG is first SmartWay alt-fuel

Model 386 liquefied natural gas truck meets fuel-saving, low-emission equipment requirements set for Class 8 trucks.

September 16, 2011

Business

J.D. Power: Truck quality improves but at what cost?

Among trucks in service between 13 and 18 months, problems have decreased by 23 percent during the last six years, the J.D. Power study finds.

June 30, 2011

Business

Side rollover protection system

The IMMI RollTek side rollover protection system has been integrated in the Atlas Premium Air Ride, high back driver’s seat on all Peterbilt Class 8 vehicles. RollTek combines side airbag protection with seatbelt technology. The system deploys within a quarter-second to minimize impact. PETERBILT, www.peterbilt.com

May 31, 2011

Business

Peterbilt to make air disc brakes standard

Move will apply to entire Calss 8 truck lineup.

March 30, 2011

Channel 19

Is large truck lemon law needed?

There’s only a couple effective lemon laws in the country that actually provide protection from “defective” Class 8s for buyers. If you’ve as yet missed my March cover story in Overdrive on the subject, click on the images here to read, or access the text version here. Among sources was Mike Noll, a retired owner-operator […]

March 11, 2011

Business

Record used truck registrations in 2010

The demand for clean used equipment was greatest for Class 8 vehicles.

February 18, 2011