Application forms online
for clean diesel grants

Forms are now available online to apply for federal funding to be used for retrofitting diesel engine vehicles and equipment, as well as other clean diesel programs...

FMCSA shuts down
NAFTA truck project

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has terminated the demonstration project that allowed Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate in the United States...

TCA's highest award
goes to David McCorkle

David G McCorkle, chairman of the board for McCorkle Truck Line Inc, Oklahoma City OK, has been recognized by the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA)...

TCA safety awards
include 2 tank fleets

Two carriers with tank truck divisions have received the Truckload Carriers Association's Fleet Safety Awards...

ATA freight forecast
reaches to 2020

The US Freight Transportation Forecast to 2020 is now available from the American Trucking Associations (ATA)...

President Obama blinks
in NAFTA truck dispute

President Obama has tasked the Department of Transportation (DOT) and others to propose legislation to meet the NAFTA agreement that mandates allowing Mexican-licensed trucks to travel beyond commercial zones along the US-Mexico border. ...

ATA files motion
in HOS legal challenge

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has filed a motion to intervene in response to the latest challenge to the hours-of-service (HOS) rules...

New law blocks
Mexico trucks in US

Language in the 2009 appropriations act signed into law by President Obama will prevent Mexican-licensed trucks from traveling beyond commercial zones along the US-Mexico border...

Texas wants drivers
to OK UST registration

The Texas Motor Truck Association (TMTA) is working hard to prevent a Texas proposal that would require carriers' drivers to determine if underground storage tanks (UST) they are delivering to are properly registered...

Dupre launches new Web site

Dupre Logistics, Lafayette LA, has launched a redesigned Web site at duprelogistics.com that offers one-point authentication access to customers and employees...

Freight TSI falls 2.3% in January

The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) fell 2.3 percent in January from its December level, falling for the third consecutive month to its lowest level in more than five years, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has reported...

ChemLogix forms new subsidiary

ChemLogix LLC, Blue Bell PA, has established ChemLogix Global LLC, a subsidiary dedicated to providing international supply chain and logistics services worldwide using Web-based technology and partnerships...

TWIC enrolls 1 million workers

One million port and longshore workers, truckers, and others at ports across the nation have enrolled in the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program, according to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)...

Study touts cost benefits
of truck stability systems

A new report from FMCSA and the ATRI says that the benefits of using roll stability control systems (RSC) on commercial vehicles over a period of five years outweighed the costs at every efficacy rate and each vehicle miles traveled (VMT) category....

Colonial Chemical receives DEF certification

Colonial Chemical Co, Tabernacle NH, has been awarded a license by the American Petroleum Institute (API) under the API diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) certification program, according to Colonial information....

Eaton to assist in hybrid truck incentive program

Eaton Corp, Cleveland OH, has established a program to assist diesel truck fleet owners in applying for $156 million in grants for diesel hybrid trucks that are available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)....

DOE lowers forecast
for 2009 diesel price

The Department of Energy (DOE) continues to lower its projected average price for diesel in 2009--the latest report estimating $2.19 per gallon...

Card check legislation
introduced in Congress

Legislation that would allow workers to form unions without voting in private ballots--action that some have labeled an attack on democracy by eliminating the secret ballot--has been introduced into the House and Senate...

ATA: HOS keeps
trucks, motorists safe

Trucks on the nation’s highways are safer now, while operating under federal hours of service (HOS) regulations that debuted in 2004, than they have ever been, according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA)...

Diesel price persists
in downward trend

The price of diesel last week rang up at the pump at $2.045 per gallon, $1.77 less than this time last year when it was $3.819 per gallon....

NHTSA delays ABS
requirement sunsetting

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has posted an interim final rule on its Web site delaying the sunsetting of a requirement related to trailer antilock brake systems (ABS)...

FMCSA posts anhydrous ammonia update

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has posted a recent update for anhydrous ammonia/nurse tank safety on its Web site at fmcsa.dot.gov...

NEFI defends certain SPCC truck exemptions

The Environmental Protection Agency (SPCC) amendments were finalized in December and set to take effect February 3, 2009, but were delayed by an Obama administration move for review...

Chlorine Institute offers free tech publications

The Chlorine Institute Inc has launched an initiative to provide a vast majority of its technical publications free to key chlor-alkali industry stakeholders via the institute's online bookstore...

DPC offers milk truck guidelines

A guideline for cleaning and sanitation responsibilities for milk tank trucks is available from the Dairy Practices Council (DPC) and can be ordered on the council's Web site at dairypc.org....