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Commercial trailer orders
continue strong in May

May 2010 commercial trailer net orders were up 59% from the prior-year month, continuing a healthy rebound from a very weak 2009, according to ACT Research Co. Through May, year-to-date net orders for trailers are up 69%...

Canadian Freight Index up
for fifth month in a row

TransCore’s Canadian Freight Index has climbed for the fifth straight month, showing significant improvement year over year with a 73% increase in spot market freight availability...

Fleets

The US Chamber of Commerce named John Ruan III as its vice-chairman for 2010 in a June 9 election by the board. Ruan is chairman and chief executive officer...

Associations

The Professional Truck Driver Institute (PTDI) has named David Heller its director. He also serves as the Truckload Carriers Association's director of...

Time to fight
, By Charles E Wilson

BY MOST accounts, tank truck carriers are having a good year. Fleets are busy, and load counts have risen to the point that many carriers have been turning...

Dupr expands into Southeast markets

Dupr Logistics LLC announced the expansion of its Site and Private Fleet Services group into North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina markets....

TMW teams with Roush,
KSM Transport Advisors

TMW Systems Inc has announced a strategic alliance with KSM Transport Advisors LLC (KSMTA). The alliance is built on TMW’s long-standing relationship with David Roush, newly appointed vice-president for KSMTA...

Truckers again face driver
shortage, survey indicates

Transport Capital Partners LLC (TCP) has completed its Business Expectation Survey for the second quarter of 2010, which found that two-thirds of carriers surveyed are experiencing a return of the driver shortage...

CSA 2010 needs further
improvements, ATA says

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) fully supports CSA 2010’s objectives of targeting unsafe operators, changing their behavior, and removing the most egregious actors from the road...

ATA Truck Tonnage Index
dips slightly in May 2010

The American Trucking Associations' advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 0.6 percent in May 2010, which was the first month-to-month drop since February of this year...