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Paccar to open engine plant

Paccar announced the official introduction of its MX series diesel engines and the opening this summer of its new engine plant in Columbus, Miss., during a press event at the Paccar Technical Center in Mount Vernon, Wash., on Feb. 5. Not many companies are taking such steps during “the worst economy in decades,” said Paccar […]

February 10, 2010

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Survey: Intermodal transport gains

Intermodal transport gained market share against trucks in the fourth quarter of 2009, reaching a new high in the process, an analysis by FTR Associates shows. Intermodal’s share of U.S. long-haul (550-plus miles) movements of international and domestic containerized freight was estimated to be 13.3 percent in the fourth quarter, up 0.2 percent from the […]

February 10, 2010

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Sleep apnea webinar set for tonight

Dr. Mark Berger, president and chief medical officer of Precision Pulmonary Diagnostics, will talk on sleep apnea in a free webinar tonight.

February 10, 2010

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OO dispatcher takes on truck brokerage industry

Straight into battle with a large piece of the trucking world goes Mr. Paul Todd, an Augusta, Ga.-based owner-operator dispatching service provider and the subject of my February Exit Only column “Surrounding the Middleman” in Truckers News (follow that link for the story). Todd’s the author of the Industry of Thieves book. Released last year, Todd’s book makes the case […]

February 10, 2010

Channel 19

FMCSA finally listening to drivers?

On the subject of the hours of service, my entire time covering the trucking industry has been to the ever-more-visible backdrop curtain of calls (to really mix metaphors) to introduce some sort of flexibility into the current, rigid 14-hour window for drivers to take short sleeper berth periods and not risk losing valuable driving hours. The […]

February 9, 2010

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Wild game cooking classes spawned by ice-roads coincidence

As Todd L. Disher quipped last week in the lead of his piece for Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman newspaper about Carlile Transportation driving instructor Phil Kromm, “it’s only natural an episode of ‘Ice Road Truckers’ would spawn a series of culinary classes focused on gourmet wild game.” Kromm, see, is an avid propane griller of wild […]

February 5, 2010

Channel 19

Truckers key in averting mix-up in Granite Falls, Wash., bypass

In the Everett, Wash., Daily Herald newspaper late last week a story appeared about two roundabouts being constructed on a new bypass of the growing Granite Falls, Wash., community in the central part of the state, very near vast National Forest areas. According to the story’s writer, Bill Sheets, truckers were instrumental in pointing out a fatal flaw […]

February 4, 2010

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U.S. diesel price tumbles 3rd straight week

For the third straight week, the national average retail price of a gallon of diesel declined. The price dropped 5.2 cents to $2.781, according to the Department of Energy. All regions reported lower average prices, ranging from 2 cents in the Rocky Mountain area to 6 cents in the Central Atlantic. New England is the […]

February 3, 2010

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Tire Truck Centers adds facilities

Serive Tire Truck Centers has added 17 new facilities.

February 3, 2010

Channel 19

Fillmore, Ill., trucker carves wooden truck models with lifelike detail

Profiled in the Dectaur, Ill.-based Herald-Review, Jeff Miller is a truck driver who wields a wood-carving knife with considerable skill, building wooden models of classic truck-tractors.

February 2, 2010

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More local fame for driver/songwriter Larry Morris

The Missouri-based Daily Dunklin Democrat newspaper once again featured a driver I had the pleasure of meeting in Nashville late last year. Campbell, Mo.-based Double G Trucking hauler Larry Morris’s “Cotton Fields to Nashville” song was selected as the title track for a Johnny Cash tribute record, a coproduction of TRS Music Group and Plush […]

January 28, 2010

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DOT prohibits driver texting immediately

The U.S Department of Transportation Jan. 26 announced it is immediately prohibiting truck and bus drivers from sending text messages while operating commercial vehicles. Truck and bus drivers who text while driving commercial vehicles may be subject to civil or criminal penalties of up to $2,750. The DOT action doesn’t prohibit the use of cell […]

January 27, 2010