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Trimac plans to purchase assets of StarTrans Inc

Trimac Transportation has formed a new operating entity, Trimac Dry Bulk Group Inc, and that new entity has entered into an asset purchase agreement with StarTrans Inc for purchase of the business and certain of the assets of StarTrans...

FMCSA plans pre-employment screening program for drivers

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) will launch a new Driver Pre-Employment Screening Program that will allow commercial motor carrier companies to electronically access driver inspection and crash records as a part of the hiring process...

ATA board overwhelmingly backs anti-texting legislation

The American Trucking Associations Executive Committee voted overwhelmingly to support a bill introduced by US Sen Charles E Schumer (D-NY) to ban texting by all drivers...

Surface trade with Canada, Mexico falls 28% in July ‘09

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico was 28% lower in July 2009 than in July 2008...

Harms Oil to equip fleet with DT4000 TruckPC

DriverTech, designer of the DT4000 TruckPC onboard computing system with three modes of communications, announced that Brookings SD-based Harms Oil Company will equip its entire fleet with the DT4000 TruckPC...

DOT summit spotlights distracted-driving issue

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called for regulations to ban cell phone use while operating commercial vehicles. The call to action came during a special distracted-driving summit meeting convened September 30-October 1 by the Department of Transportation (DOT)....

Errors mar New York Times
distracted-driving articles

The New York Times’ September 28 story about truck driver distraction presented misleading characterizations of American Trucking Associations (ATA) policies and views on the subject, and included factual errors on truck crash data compiled by federal safety officials...

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....

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...