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Teletrac releases Fleet Director 8.2 system

Teletrac has released the Fleet Director 8.2 fleet management telematics system. Fleet Director 8.2 gives flexible new at-a-glance dashboards and safety scorecards to help monitor driving behavior and safety performance for individual drivers, user-defined groups of vehicles, and the fleet as a whole....

Fleet Sentiment Report Buying Index
surges to new high in January 2011

The 1Q 2011 Fleet Sentiment Report Buying Index as reported by CK Commercial Vehicle Research rose to a new high of 102.3 in January 2011, with 58% indicating they were planning to place orders for power equipment during the next three months and 42% planning to place trailer orders during the same period....

Schneider National fleet of drivers
gets custom distracted-driving lesson

L-3 MPRI has delivered to truckload carrier Schneider National Inc a custom training system to address distracted driving. The fully interactive lesson, which will be rolled out to Schneider’s fleet of 12,000 drivers in first quarter 2011, is designed to increase driver safety and improve the company’s performance in exceeding new federal safety regulations....

IANA Operations & Maintenance Seminar

The Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) announced the dates of the 2011 IANA Intermodal Operations & Maintenance Seminar. This intermodal operations and maintenance event will be held May 4-5, 2011, in Oak Brook IL at the Oak Brook Hills Marriott Hotel....

Odfjell purchases 20-acre terminal in SC

Odfjell Holdings (US) has completed its purchase of a 20-acre terminal in North Charleston SC. The new terminal will consist of 40 tanks with deep draft on the shipping channel, dual rail, and highway access....

Year-end freight volumes highest since ‘05

TransCore’s North American Freight Index that monitors spot market truckload freight movement throughout the United States and Canada ended the year with a 55% increase compared with December 2009. ...

ACT Research Co schedules two seminars

ACT Research Co LLC has announced that it will hold its 44th and 45th seminars in Columbus IN on March 28-30, 2011 and September 12-13, 2011. ...

CSA Safety Performance Service available

Qualcomm Inc announced the commercial availability of the CSA Safety Performance Service. The Basic service is available now, and the Deluxe service will be available in the next several weeks. ...

Price of diesel fuel rises for ninth straight week

Diesel fuel’s national average price climbed 0.8 cent to $3.438 a gallon, its ninth straight gain, according to US Department of Energy information....

Graves’ letter to Obama advocates
common-sense rules of the road

Bill Graves, president and chief executive officer of the American Trucking Associations, sent a letter to President Obama concerning his new Executive Order and its applicability to this administration’s recently proposed hours-of-service rule changes....