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Qualcomm's Bauckman says legislators must be educated on technology that can help drivers without increasing driving distractions
Jan 1, 2010, By Rick Weber

THE American Trucking Associations' (ATA) Executive Committee voted in August 2009 to support a bill introduced by Sen Charles E Schumer (D-NY) to ban...

DHS needs a shakeup
Jan 1, 2010, By Charles E Wilson

FROM the very outset the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) looked like some sort of Frankenstein cabinet department cobbled together with a variety...

Carriers facing cash squeeze
as receivables drag: survey
Dec 16, 2009

Transport Capital Partners’ (TCP) fourth quarter Business Expectation Survey shows how carriers are adapting to the pressures of slowing receivables coupled with ongoing demands of equipment payments and truck utilization. TCP uses the quarterly surveys—as well as conversations with personal contacts—to collect the insights and opinions of the nation’s transportation industry...

NATSO recommends
US senators extend
biodiesel tax credit
Dec 16, 2009

Senate leaders to quickly extend the biodiesel tax credit before it expires December 31. An extension would ensure an affordable biodiesel supply for the nation’s 3.5 million truck drivers and secure the environmental investments of the nation’s truckstops and travel plazas...

Study advocates enacting
climate adaptation policies
Dec 16, 2009

A new white paper asserts that short-term efforts to increase the transportation system’s resilience will reduce long-term costs from climate change and proposes federal policy options for the Obama administration and Congress to address the impacts of climate change on the transportation sector...

Commercial vehicle market
growth should surge in 2011
Dec 15, 2009

While the medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicle markets are expected to grow modestly off weak 2009 production—the lowest level of production since 1991—the sector will see significant growth in 2011, according to ACT Research Co...

Price of diesel fuel down
for sixth week in a row
Dec 15, 2009

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel nationwide dropped for the sixth straight week, sinking 2.4 cents to $2.748 a gallon, according to US Department of Energy information...

Global biofuels production
reduces GHGs dramatically
Dec 11, 2009

Just in time for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference now underway in Copenhagen, Denmark, new data once again confirms the significant greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions from global biofuels production...

US economic recovery
expected to continue
in 2010, panel predicts
Dec 11, 2009

Economic growth in the United States will resume in 2010, say the nation’s purchasing and supply management executives in their December 2009 Semiannual Economic Forecast. Expectations for 2010 are for positive conditions experienced in the second half of 2009 to continue in manufacturing, while the non-manufacturing sector foresees marginal growth...

Daimler Truck Financial
tops in dealer satisfaction
Dec 11, 2009

In one of the toughest environments for the US trucking industry in years, Daimler Truck Financial achieved the number-one ranking in the annual dealer satisfaction survey conducted by the American Truck Dealers (ATD), a division of the National Automobile Dealers Association...

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