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Medium-duty truck
production constrained

While medium-duty truck demand has been slowly growing for several months, a strong rebound in North American production of medium-duty trucks is being constrained by continuing weakness in the housing and construction sector...

Renault sells part of stake in truck builder Volvo AB

French auto maker Renault announced October 7 that it was selling part of its stake in Volvo AB for 3 billion euros ...

Trucking Conditions
Index rises in August

FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index edged higher in August 2010 to a reading of 2.3. ...

Price of diesel fuel makes
second spike in two weeks

Diesel’s national average price continued to spike as it jumped 6.6 cents to $3.066 a gallon, marking the second big gain in two weeks, according to US Department of Energy information....

Sales of used Class 8
vehicles up 55% in August

Reported sales of used Class 8 commercial vehicles were up 55% in August 2010 compared with the prior year on a “same dealer” basis, according to ACT Research Co. ...

Diesel fuel price reaches
$3-per-gallon territory

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel nationwide jumped 4.9 cents to $3 a gallon, the first time it has been at that level since May, according to US Department of Energy information. Diesel slipped 0.9 cent a week earlier after two weeks of increases totaling 2.9 cents, and the price is now 41.8 cents over the same week in 2009....

Third-party logistics CEOs
identify top supply chain
industry trends in survey

Key findings from the 17th annual Survey of Third-Party Logistics Providers were recently presented at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Annual Global Conference by survey author Dr Robert Lieb, professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University, and Joe Gallick, senior vice-president of sales for Penske Logistics....

Truckers stick by business
plans despite economy

Transport Capital Partners LLC (TCP) has completed its Business Expectation Survey for the third quarter of 2010. ...

TransCore Canadian Freight Index
hits landmark volume in August

TransCore’s Canadian Freight Index showed a 50% year-over-year increase in spot market freight volume with a two-point increase from July 2010. Freight in August 2010 registered the highest volume ever recorded for the same month in the past five years. ...

Chamber of Commerce indexes show
transportation infrastructure decline

The US Chamber of Commerce has released the first nationwide and state-by-state “Transportation Performance Indexes” which show a significant decline over the past five years in how America’s transportation infrastructure is serving the needs of domestic commerce, international trade and the overall US economy....

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