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Kenworth receives award
for LNG technician training

Kenworth Truck Company recently received a 2009 Exemplary Innovation Award from the California Economic & Workforce Development program in association with the California Community Colleges...

ATA says it’s time to get
serious about infrastructure

Results of the Texas Transportation Research Institute’s (TTI) 2009 Urban Mobility Report show that it’s time to get serious about highway infrastructure investment, said the American Trucking Associations...

Meritor WABCO debuts
SmartTrac systems line

Meritor WABCO Vehicle Control Systems has introduced SmartTrac, a suite of antilock braking, automatic traction control, and stability control systems for commercial vehicles. SmartTrac uses advanced electronic control units with enhanced capabilities...

Price of diesel fuel falls
for third straight week

The average price of diesel fuel nationwide has dropped for a third straight week, decreasing 5.2 cents to $2.542 a gallon, according to US Department of Energy information...

ATA, state trucking groups
provide VMRS products

American Trucking Associations (ATA) and state trucking associations participating in ATA Business Solutions are now the exclusive providers of ATA’s Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards (VMRS) 2000 products...

Eaton Corp combines
Automotive, Truck Groups

Eaton Corporation announced that Eaton’s Automotive and Truck Groups are being consolidated into one operating unit. The combined organization will be known as the Vehicle Group and will be led by Joseph P Palchak, current president of the Automotive Group...

Volvo's employee wellness
program wins award

Volvo Trucks North America was honored by the National Business Group on Health as one of the nation’s leading corporations for innovative programs to promote a healthy workplace, and for helping its employees make better choices about their own health and well-being...

Mack's employee wellness
program earns recognition

Mack Trucks Inc received national recognition for its employee wellness program from The National Business Group on Health in Washington DC recently. The firm was given a Platinum Award, one of only 17 companies to achieve this distinction. Mack’s wellness program includes...

Meritor WABCO
revamps its website

Meritor WABCO Vehicle Control Systems has released a new, updated website to provide North American truck operators with clearer and faster access to advanced braking systems information...

Volvo No Regen Engine
tour touts excellence
in emissions technology

Seeing is believing, so Volvo Trucks North America is making sure as many people as possible see its EPA2010 emissions technology in action through its No Regen Engine tour...

Natural gas truck fueling
station opens near ports

The world’s largest natural gas truck fueling station, designed and built by Clean Energy Fuels Corp, is now open for business on a 2.9-acre site adjacent to the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles CA...

Truck-involved fatality
rate drops 12% in 2008

Figures released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) indicate that the truck-involved fatality rate in 2008 declined 12%, dropping from 4,822 in 2007 to 4,229...

Commercial vehicle demand
picture is stabilizing: report

Orders for heavy-duty commercial vehicles are coming in as anticipated, according to the latest edition of FTR Associates’ North American Commercial Truck & Trailer Outlook. As a result, FTR’s forecast for 2009 calling for a decline of almost 47% in Class 8 truck production remains unchanged...

ATA Truck Tonnage Index
increases 3.2% in May

The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose for the first time since February 2009, gaining 3.2% in May 2009...

Volvo, Mack employees
salute military heroes

As America’s Independence Day holiday nears, employees at the Volvo Trucks North America and Mack Trucks New River Valley Plant (NRV) recently continued their tradition of honoring the nation’s fallen and missing military heroes...

Navistar's top service technician shows excellence at annual rodeo

Robert Ball of Maudlin International Trucks Inc of Orlando FL took top honors at the third annual Navistar Service Technician Rodeo...

Voters overwhelmingly oppose Card Check

An overwhelming majority of voters, including 74% of surveyed union households, polled in a new survey oppose the Employee Free Choice Act...

Cap-and-trade program will harm trucking: ATA

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) told a congressional committee that a cap-and-trade program would impose significant costs on truckers ...

Peterbilt Motors Co honors top dealers

Blake Jackson, dealer principal of Idaho Falls Peterbilt, was named Peterbilt's 2008 North American Dealer of the Year at the Peterbilt Motors Company annual dealer meeting...

Commercial vehicle safety belt use reaches 72% in 08

Safety belt use by drivers of medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles increased to 72% in 2008....

Mack to consolidate entire production at Macungie PA

Mack Trucks Inc announced that the company will move forward with its previously announced plan to consolidate production of its entire product line at its assembly facility in Macungie PA....

Coalition presses Congress to raise vehicle weight limit

More than 100 associations and companies including Coca-Cola, Kraft, and MillerCoors officially launched the Coalition for Transportation Productivity...

Volvo taking orders for EPA2010 trucks

Customers can place orders now for trucks across Volvo Trucks North America's product line equipped to meet the EPA2010 emissions standards...

Trucking will remain a key US transportation player

Rumors to the contrary, trucking will remain a critical part of the US economy for many decades to come. ...

ATA seeks action to control energy commodity speculation

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has called on Congress to increase the transparency of futures markets and impose reasonable aggregate position limits on energy commodities....

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