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Commercial vehicle market
recovery likely to be slow

While the medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicle markets are beginning a slow recovery from the lowest level of production since 1991, significant headwinds remain for the sector to return to normal replacement level demand, according to ACT Research Co ...

NRDC attacks ignore
success of Clean
Truck Program: ATA

In a series of blogs and open letters, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) attorney David Pettit has attacked the Port of Long Beach CA for working with the trucking industry to develop a Clean Truck Program at the port that is achieving positive results, creates a tightly controlled regulatory atmosphere to ensure that those results are sustained and built upon, and also ends costly litigation...

Economic recovery begins;
truck freight growth lags

The recovery has begun, according to the latest issue of The North American Commercial Truck and Trailer Outlook published by FTR Associates, but the transportation industry forecast company warns that any significant freight growth is not expected until 2010 with increased orders for equipment to follow later in the year...

Class 8 net truck orders
spike upward in October

FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing Class 8 net orders for all major North American OEMs totaled 21,792 units in October 2009, reflecting a definite upsurge in order activity...

Paying drivers by the hour
pays off for Dupré Logistics

For its 700-plus drivers, Dupré Logistics has initiated a pay strategy shared by few companies in this economic climate—by paying its drivers by the hour. It’s an initiative the company says was implemented to produce better schedules, more quality team members, and safer drivers. Dupré Logistics has stressed the new pay structure does not function as a cost-cutting measure, but rather a quality control initiative...

Diesel fuel price inches up
for fourth straight week

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel nationwide increased for a fourth straight week, though its advance slowed from recent weeks with a 0.7 cent gain to $2.808 a gallon, according to US Department of Energy information...

Mack again receives orders
from US Army for tractors

Mack Trucks Inc has received three additional delivery orders for Mack Vision Elite model tractors from the US Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command. The orders are part of a three-year, $28.5 million contract for 152 heavy-duty tractors and trailers, as well as spare parts...

2010 Emissions: Chassis challenges
, By Rick Weber

By now, the industry has scrutinized, analyzed, and debated ad nauseum the merits and drawbacks of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and advanced exhaust gas recirculation...

Class 8 pre-buy boosts 2009 truck demand
, By Charles E Wilson

It looks like we are in the midst of a modest pre-buy in advance of the 2010 truck models with diesel engines that meet the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) 2010 emission requirements. Class 8 net orders for all major North American truck builders totaled 21,792 units in October, reflecting a clear surge in order activity, according to FTR Associates data...

Kenworth receives Green Washington award for 09

Kenworth Truck Company was honored with the 2009 Green Washington manufacturing award from Seattle Business magazine during a special awards banquet in Seattle WA recently...

Cap-and-trade will do little
to cut emissions, ATA says

Proposed cap-and-trade legislation will impose significant costs on the trucking industry and all consumers while doing little to reduce carbon emissions from trucking, American Trucking Associations (ATA) First Vice-Chairman Barbara Windsor said at a press conference on Capitol Hill...

ATA urges improvement
in border infrastructure

Improving security and efficiency of freight transportation across borders will require more funds for infrastructure, more reasonable enforcement of trade security program rules, and giving the lead role in coordinating federal efforts to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, Celadon Group Inc Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Russell told a congressional panel...

Bendix supports NHTSA findings on value of ESC

Bendix Commercial Vehicle System LLC supports the conclusions of a study released by the federal government showing that Electronic Stability Control (ESC), also known as Electronic Stability Program (ESP), on heavy trucks (above 10,000 lbs) can both substantially reduce the number of annual heavy-truck crashes and prevent injuries and deaths...

Port of Long Beach
official chastises
NRDC over criticism

The recent legal settlement between the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and the Port of Long Beach is good news for clean air, Port of Long Beach Executive Director Richard Steinke said in a letter on the port’s website...

ATA, Port of Long Beach officials reach settlement

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) Executive Committee and the Port of Long Beach (CA) Harbor Commissioners have each approved a settlement negotiated between port officials and ATA and trucking industry representatives...

Price of diesel fuel surges 10.5 cents for a 2009 high

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel nationwide jumped 10.5 cents to $2.705 a gallon, its highest price since November 17, 2008, when it was $2.809, according to US Department of Energy information...

Commercial vehicle markets on a slow road to recovery

After three consecutive years of double-digit production declines, including more than 40% declines in 2009, the medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicle markets are at the beginning of a three-year period of steady growth, according to ACT Research Co...

Class 8 net orders increase for fourth month in a row

FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing Class 8 net orders for all major North American OEMs totaled 10,817 units in September 2009—the fourth consecutive month that orders have shown a month-over-month increase...

TMW, NAVTEQ complete data licensing agreement

TMW Systems announced the completion of a multi-year agreement to license NAVTEQ map data for a development program that will bring new geographic visualization and routing tools to customers of TMW’s extended software product portfolio...

ATA: Pro-union groups
mislead about port issues

In six press releases from various union and pro-union sources, backers of the Teamsters’ effort to change federal law in order to organize port drayage truck drivers are misleading the public and encouraging use of taxpayer money to help organize unions, according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA)...

Dupré Logistics receives seven awards from ATA

The American Trucking Association’s Safety Management Council recently presented Dupré Logistics with seven awards recognizing superior safety achievements during the 2009 Safety & Human Resources National Conference & Exhibition in Baltimore MD....

Price of diesel fuel falls for fifth straight week

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel nationwide dropped for a fifth straight week, declining 1.9 cents to $2.582 a gallon, according to US Department of Energy information...

Port terminal operators meet
CARB clean trucks deadline

Marine terminal operators at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach CA announced they have met the deadline to comply with a new clean trucks regulation from the California Air Resources Board (CARB)...

Transplace highlights
effect of NAFTA
on exports, trade

Dallas TX-based Transplace experiences firsthand the city’s connection of major interstates, multiple airports, extensive rail systems, and close proximity to Gulf of Mexico freight ports...

Detroit Diesel applies to EPA for DD13, DD15 certification

Having recently completed more than 25 million miles of testing with its BlueTec emissions control system, Detroit Diesel Corporation has filed applications with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resource Board (CARB) for 2010 certification of Detroit Diesel DD13 and DD15 engines with BlueTec emissions control systems...

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