On-board diagnostics (OBD) to be added to Mack, Volvo 13L diesel engines

Recently issued federal rules requiring on-board diagnostics (OBD) for heavy-duty diesel engines will be met with a combination of existing sensors already in place and “a handful of new sensors,” according to Steve Berry, director of government relations for Volvo Powertrain North America, the subsidiary that builds engines for both Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America...

Cummins has full confidence in its SCR

Despite Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerns that the copper zeolite it intends to use in its 2010 engines could produce carcinogenic dioxins, Cummins said it has complete confidence that EPA will see after further testing that copper zeolite is a safe and effective solution for meeting 2010 emissions regulations...

Isuzu to use selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology for 2010

Isuzu Commercial Truck of America has announced it will use selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology requiring diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) to meet 2010 EPA standards for diesel engine NOx emissions...

Colorado terminal offers biodiesel

Renewable Energy Group (REG) has announced that biodiesel is now available in large volume at an Alta Fuels terminal in Alamosa CO, according to company information...

DOT team to manage stimulus funds

The Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery team has been created at the Department of Transportation (DOT) to coordinate the department’s role in an economic recovery program, according to DOT information...

ASTM B5 biodiesel passes UL test

Underwriters Laboratories Inc (UL) is announcing that products intended to use biodiesel blends up to B5 that are compliant with applicable ASTM International fuel standards will not require special investigation by UL....

ATA releases driver
compensation study

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has released the ATA Driver Compensation Study with data from 2007 and 2008 operations. It is ATA’s first report on driver compensation since 2003...

Scientists urging
biodiesel support

A group of scientists are endorsing the use of biodiesel and encouraging their peers to add their support, according to information from the National Biodiesel Board (NBB)...

Diesel price
down 2 cents

The average price of all types of on-road diesel fell another two cents last week to $2.246 per gallon, according to Department of Energy data...

Graves: Privatization
not answer to congestion

Congestion pricing and highway privatization add unnecessary costs to the economy and do not solve budget problems, said Bill Graves, president of the American Trucking Associations (ATA)...

EPA extends
SPCC effective date

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending by 60 days the effective date of the December 5, 2008, Oil Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) final rule, according to EPA information...

KGL chooses FMS
tracking for fleet

KGL Transportation Co, Safat, Kuwait, is using Fleet Management Solutions Inc (FMS), San Luis Obispo CA, for its Iridium-based fleet tracking capabilities, according to information from FMS...

KAG inks single-source
deal with Hess in FL

Kenan Advantage Group (KAG), North Canton OH, has entered into a five-year fuel transportation agreement with Hess Corp to be the single-source provider of bulk fuel transportation for all of the company’s gasoline-retail convenience stores in central and south Florida, according to KAG information...

Voters oppose
Card Check legislation

An overwhelming majority of voters, including 74 percent of surveyed union households, polled in a new survey oppose the Employee Free Choice Act, known as Card Check...

Driver appreciation
set for November 1-7

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has set November 1-7 for National Truck Driver Appreciation Week 2009 to honor the nation's 3.5 million professional truck drivers....

Truck tonnage plunges in December

The American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index plunged 11.1 percent in December 2008, marking the largest month-to-month reduction since April 1994...

Milwaukee terminal dedicated to biofuels

Innovation Fuels, and Tanco Milwaukee LLC, an affiliate of Hammond IN-based Wolf Lake Terminals, have partnered to operate a 312,000 barrel (45,000 metric tons) capacity terminal in the Port of Milwaukee WI...

ATA asks support for environmental initiatives

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has asked Congress to support the trucking industry’s environmental initiatives that the association says will reduce fuel consumption by 86 billion gallons and reduce the carbon footprint of all vehicles by nearly a billion tons over the next 10 years...

NAFTA trade down in November

The value of trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico was 13.8 percent lower in November 2008 than in November 2007, dropping to $60.7 billion, the biggest year-to-year decline in almost eight years, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the Department of Transportation...

Comment period open for fluid-distribution RP

The comment period is now open for the Petroleum Equipment Institute (PEI) draft of RP700, Recommended Practices for the Design and Maintenance of Fluid-Distribution Systems at Vehicle Maintenance Facilities...

Praxair specifies
LifeGuard Technologies

Praxair Inc, Danbury CT, has specified LifeGuard Technologies RollTek, Westfield IN, on all new tractors for its US-based bulk fleet, according to information from LifeGuard...

PEI offers copies
of storage tank RPs

Print copies of the Petroleum Equipment Institute’s recommended practices for the installation of aboveground storage systems (PEI/RP200) are now available for purchase...

Diesel price continues
on downward slide

After a 12-month roller coaster ride, the average price of diesel last week fell 2.8 cents to $2.268 per gallon, almost $1 per gallon less than the year before, according to data from the Department of Energy (DOE)...

LaHood becomes
Transportation Secretary

Ray H LaHood was sworn in as Secretary of Transportation January 23 in Washington DC. Before being named to President Obama's Cabinet, he was a Republican serving in the US House of Representatives...

BTI cuts bulker
unloading time

Bulk Tank Inc (BTI) has put a new spin on an old standby that reduces hopper unloading time by 20 percent, allowing drivers to spend more time hauling and less time unloading...