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New Mexico may close 14 rest areas

Almost half of New Mexico’s public rest stops would be closed because of a funding shortfall, according to the state’s Department of Transportation. The New Mexico DOT has chosen 14 of the state’s 32 rest stops — 13 full-time and one seasonal — for possible closure soon. Ten of the rest stops are along Interstates […]

April 27, 2010

Partners in Business

PIB TIP:  GET THE MOST POSSIBLE MILES. Over a week

PIB TIP:  GET THE MOST POSSIBLE MILES. Over a weekend, try to make the most of your time. Match your miles with the time you have available to drive. Plan out Friday morning what you will do for the next three days. The Partners in Business program is produced by Overdrive and the consultants at […]

April 27, 2010

Reader Rigs

Darren “Thunder” Gouveia of Lucasville, Ohio, owns

Darren “Thunder” Gouveia of Lucasville, Ohio, owns this 2006 Kenworth W900L, powered by a 475-hp Caterpillar. The working truck has an 86-inch studio sleeper and a custom interior.

April 27, 2010

Business

Diesel price rises again

The price rose 0.4 cent to $3.078 in the latest week.

April 27, 2010

Business

New Mexico may close 14 rest areas

Ten of the rest stops are along Interstates 10, 25 and 40, and the rest are on U.S. highways 64, 70 and 180.

April 27, 2010

Business

Weavil named Highway Angel

Joseph Weavil notified authorities and led them to an accident scene that was not visible from the road.

April 26, 2010

Business

Peterbilt 384 wins ATD truck of year award

The other heavy-duty truck nominees were: Kenworth T660 Extended Day Cab and Freightliner Coronado.

April 26, 2010

Business

CARB to review diesel engine emissions policies

CARB has asked staff to draft changes to regulations that will mitigate potential effects of a bad economy on business.

April 26, 2010

Channel 19

Captain Kirk, owner-operator

The parallels between space travel and trucking have not gone unremarked-upon in recent times — you might recall a blog post from a year and more ago I made about an online video game whose concept was cargo hauling in deep space — and considering the decades-long phenomenon that has been the Star Trek TV series and movies, it was […]

April 26, 2010

Business

Kenworth gets 1,050-truck order

Kenworth Truck Co. has received an order for 1,050 T660s with Paccar MX 2010 engines from TransAm Trucking, a refrigerated fleet in Olathe, Kan., the truck maker announced April 22. “This order from TransAm Trucking is a remarkable way to help introduce the Paccar MX engine into the North American market,” says Bill Kozek, Kenworth […]

April 26, 2010

Channel 19

Lester “Buckshot” Winfree rises from owner-operator to 2010 person of the year

Lester “Buckshot” Winfree (pictured) has come a long way from his start in trucking in the 1960s. When he launched the Winfree Cattle & Rice company with two trucks late that decade, writes Record Newspapers reporter Robert Hankins in a story accompanying the newspapers’ naming of Winfree as Orange County, Texas, “Person of the Year” for 2010, Winfree couldn’t […]

April 23, 2010

Business

Study: EPA rules driving new truck demand

Fleets appear to be taking advantage of build slots for power units with pre-2010 EPA engines while they are still available, FTR says.

April 23, 2010