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Trusted Truck initiative
sets standards for WRIs
Aug 24, 2010

A multi-year research partnership sponsored by the National Transportation Research Center Inc—with Volvo Trucks North America, Volvo Technology North America, and the University of Tennessee as partners—reveals an effective model for implementing wireless roadside inspections (WRIs) to improve transport efficiency and increase highway safety and security...

ATA supports SETA legislation in Senate
Aug 11, 2010

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) strongly supports the Safe and Efficient Transportation ACT (SETA) of 2010, S 3705, introduced August 4 by US Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Herb Kohl (D-WI)...

CTP hails bipartisan bill
that gives states option
to raise interstate weight limits
Aug 10, 2010

The Coalition for Transportation Productivity (CTP), a group of more than 160 shippers and allied associations dedicated to responsibly increasing federal weight limits on interstate highways, applauded Sens Mike Crapo (R-ID), Herb Kohl (D-WI), and Susan Collins (R-ME)...

Mack names International Dealer of Year
Aug 1, 2010

Mack Trucks Inc recently honored Mack Centro of Valencia, Venezuela, as its 2009 International Dealer of the Year. Each year, Mack acknowledges the efforts...

Truck dealers give Peterbilt 384 top honor
Aug 1, 2010

American Truck Dealers (ATD) named the Peterbilt Model 384 as the 2010 ATD Commercial Truck of the Year during its 2010 annual Convention and Exposition...

NATSO urges support
for measure to extend
biodiesel tax credit
Jul 21, 2010

NATSO, the national association representing truckstops and travel plazas, along with industry partners, urged congressional leaders to support US Sen Charles Grassley's amendment to the Small Business Lending Act of 2010...

Heavy-duty vehicle demand
improvement continuing
Jul 21, 2010

A number of freight transportation and commercial vehicle market factors are aligning and setting the stage for continued improvement in demand for heavy-duty vehicles in the second half of 2010 and into 2011...

ATA applauds DOT efforts
toward safe truck parking
Jul 6, 2010

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) greatly appreciates the latest efforts by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) and Secretary Ray LaHood to provide professional truck drivers with safe places to stop and rest along the National Highway System ...

Price of diesel fuel climbs
for first time in six weeks
Jun 23, 2010

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel nationwide rose for the first time in six weeks, gaining 3.3 cents to $2.961 a gallon, according to US Department of Energy information...

VECV will produce
medium-duty engine
Jun 16, 2010

The Volvo Group's Indian joint venture company, VE Commercial Vehicles VECV, is to invest a total of SEK 480 M (INR 2.8 bn) in the production of the Volvo Group’s new global medium-duty engine in India...

Peterbilt delivers first
Paccar MX engine
Jun 16, 2010

Peterbilt Motors Company recently celebrated the delivery of the first 2010 EPA-certified Paccar MX engine. A Peterbilt Model 386 equipped with the first production MX engine was delivered to McClymonds Supply & Transit Company ...

Mack Trucks salutes 2009
International Dealer of Year
Jun 15, 2010

Mack Trucks Inc recently honored Mack Centro of Valencia, Venezuela, as its 2009 International Dealer of the Year...

Preliminary Class 8 truck
orders decrease in May
Jun 9, 2010

FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing May 2010’s Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American OEMs at 12,903 units, a 9.8% decline from April.Although May orders slowed from the previous month, year-over-year comparisons show a 74.7% improvement over May 2009...

Market for hybrid
trucks, buses surging
Jun 9, 2010

Transit buses have long been an important platform for testing new drivetrains in the heavy-duty vehicle market, but within the past couple of years, manufacturers have increased development of hybrid electric and hydraulic hybrid drivetrains for the medium- and heavy-duty truck segments...

Diesel fuel’s price declines to its lowest in 10 weeks
Jun 9, 2010

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel nationwide fell for a fourth straight week, dropping 3.4 cents to $2.946 a gallon, its lowest price in 10 weeks, according to US Department of Energy information...

McLeod celebrates 25 years serving the trucking industry
Jun 7, 2010

McLeod Software announces its 25th year of providing software systems to the trucking industry. Over the past 25 years, McLeod Software has grown into one of the nation’s leading transportation management software...

Volvo Trucks backs Obama
fuel efficiency initiative
Jun 2, 2010

Denny Slagle, president and chief executive officer of Volvo Trucks North America, participated in an event at the White House during which President Obama signed a presidential memorandum aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions...

Mack Trucks supports
Obama fuel initiative
Jun 2, 2010

Denny Slagle, president and chief executive officer of Mack Trucks Inc, participated in an event at the White House during which President Obama signed a presidential memorandum aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions ...

Class 8 net orders
climb 91% in April
Jun 2, 2010

Net orders for heavy-duty Class 8 commercial vehicles increased 91% in April 2010 compared with the same month in 2009, according to ACT Research Co....

ATA supports Obama's
calls for fuel economy,
emissions standards
Jun 2, 2010

Leaders of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) joined President Obama at the White House for his signing of a presidential memorandum that directs the US Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Kenworth names its 2009 Dealer of Year
Jun 1, 2010

MHC Kenworth in Kansas City MO was named 2009 Kenworth Dealer of the Year for the United States and Canada at the annual Kenworth Dealer Meeting held...

Pre-Employment Screening
Program applauded by ATA
May 19, 2010

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) applauds the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) implementation of a Pre-Employment Screening Program for professional truck drivers, which is one item on ATA’s 18-point safety agenda...

Clean Trucks Program cuts
pollution under current law,
ATA tells House committee
May 19, 2010

The debate over the Port of Los Angeles’ effort to ban drayage truck owner-operators is not about clean air or reducing the environmental footprint at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Robert Digges Jr, vice-president and chief counsel of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) told a subcommittee of the US House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee recently...

Truck dealers give
Peterbilt 384 top honor
May 10, 2010

American Truck Dealers (ATD) named the Peterbilt Model 384 as the “2010 ATD Commercial Truck of the Year” during its 2010 annual Convention and Exposition in Orlando FL...

Safety programs must focus
on risky behaviors, crash
causes, ATA tells US Senate
May 10, 2010

The trucking industry has made great strides to improve safety and is now the safest it has ever been, but “we can do more,” the American Trucking Associations (ATA) told a subcommittee...

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