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Carriers still slow to buy
new equipment: TCP survey

Results from Transport Capital Partners' (TCP) recent Business Expectations Survey of truckload carriers in the United States show continuing caution in buying new equipment as replacement cycles...

ATA Truck Tonnage Index
slips 0.5% in February

The American Trucking Associations advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 0.5% in February 2010 following a revised 1.9% increase in January...

Oklahoma Trucking Association, OSMC announce safety winners

The Oklahoma Trucking Association (OTA) and Oklahoma Safety Management Council (OSMC) announced their winners for the 2009 Fleet Safety Awards in Oklahoma City recently...

AAR president criticizes
Chlorine Institute advocacy
of PTC systems as flawed

The Chlorine Institute has called on the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to re-examine its rule on the cost and benefits of implementing positive train control (PTC) systems. The Chlorine Institute contends that the FRA analysis of the benefits of PTC was flawed and that these systems result in business benefits to the railroads...

Truck repossessions, liquidations fall in Q4 2009

Repossessions and liquidations of trucking equipment in the fourth quarter of 2009 declined significantly as compared to similar figures from 2008, according to Nassau Asset Management's NasTrac Quarterly Index (NQI). Nassau Asset Management is a leading asset management firm in the equipment leasing industry...

Price of diesel fuel reaches
highest mark in 16 months

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel nationwide continued its climb toward $3 a gallon, rising 2.2 cents to $2.946, a 16-month high, according to US Department of Energy information...

Class 8 vehicle net orders
increase in February 2010

Net orders for heavy-duty Class 8 commercial vehicles rose to 7,900 units in February 2010, up 20% from January 2010 and also from February 2009, according to ACT Research Co...

Andrews Logistics wins top NTTC safety award

Andrews Logistics Inc, Irving TX, was named winner of the 2009 Outstanding Performance Trophy in the National Tank Truck Carriers annual safety contest...

TMW’s strong 2009 sales
pace continues into 2010

TMW Systems announced that 140 customers signed new software contracts with TMW in 2009. The company credits its healthy sales performance to the strategy of many successful transportation firms to retool and boost productivity ahead of 2010’s anticipated freight recovery...

Mack ranks as 2009’s
top truck exporter

Mack Trucks Inc finished 2009 as the leading exporter of heavy-duty North American trucks. It had nearly one-third of total truck exports from the United States, Canada, and Mexico to countries outside North America, with a 30.8% market share...

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