GE Sensing introduces
DPF soot sensor

GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies, Billerica MA, has introduced ACCUSOLVE advanced diesel particulate filter (DPF) soot sensor that enables reduced emissions and improved efficiency of internal combustion engines and after treatment systems, according to GE Sensing information...

Freight, equipment
demand weakens

A further weakening in freight and equipment demand is indicated by a mid-February report from FTR Associates, Nashville TN...

OBD mandated for 2010 engine control systems

A final rule has been issued that will require heavy-duty engine emission control systems be monitored for malfunctions via an onboard diagnostic system (OBD)....

Diesel at lowest price since 2005

Last week's average price of diesel slid 5.6 cents to $2.13 per gallon, the lowest it has been since May of 2005...

US intermodal volume
posts gain in 2008

Domestic intermodal volume posted a solid 2.9% overall gain in 2008, according to the a recent Intermodal Market Trends and Statistics, an intermodal volume data report published by the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA)...

ATA seeks federal
freight mobility goal

Freight mobility should be the focus for federal surface transportation programs, according to Randall J Clifford, speaking on behalf of the American Trucking Associations February 20 in Los Angeles CA...

Diesel emission program
to get $300 million

The federal Diesel Emission Retrofit Program is expected to receive an infusion of $300 million from the economic stimulus package, according to information from the Petroleum Marketers Association of America (PMAA)...

CHEMTREC training
video available

A training video is available that discusses the CHEMTREC program for emergency responders, according to information from the American Chemistry Council...

Sunoco to provide ExxonMobil Texas terminal storage

Sunoco Partners Marketing Terminals LP has entered into a long-term agreement with ExxonMobil Oil Corporation to provide over two million shell barrels of storage capacity at Sunoco's Nederland TX crude oil terminal...

Aker delivers tanker for Tesoro products

Aker Philadelphia PA Shipyard has delivered its sixth MT-46 veteran product tanker to American Shipping Co, Oslo, Norway, according to Aker information...

KBR to operate US Army fuel farm in Kuwait

KBR Inc, Houston TX, has been awarded a contract by the US Army Contracting Command to execute bulk fuel farm operations at specific military sites near Shuiba Port and at Camp Buehring in Kuwait, according to KBR information...

Trucks challenge
intermodal market

Trucks made inroads into the intermodal share of the transportation market in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to a recent analysis by FTR Associates, Nashville IN...

Distillate deliveries
down in January

January deliveries of distillate fuel oil, which includes diesel fuel, fell 3.5 percent, and jet fuel deliveries slipped nearly 9 percent, according to the American Petroleum Institute (API)...

Trucking fatalities decline in 2007

The truck-involved fatality rate in 2007 declined 5.8 percent from the year before, according to information from the American Trucking Association (ATA)...

ExxonMobil recognizes Dupre Logistics

Dupre Logistics, Lafayette LA, has been recognized by ExxonMobil for five consecutive years of safe and flawless performance in the Baton Rouge LA fuel delivery market...

Million-mile drivers honored by DistTech

DistTech Inc, Newbury OH, has welcomed 23 company drivers to the company's Million Miles Club and another five drivers to the Two Million Miles Club...

Diesel price
drops 3 cents

The average price of all diesel dropped 3.3 cents to $2.186 per gallon last week, according to the Department of Energy. ...

Improving highways
lengthy challenge

Improving the nation's highway infrastructure is a long-range challenge, requiring a 20-year program, according to information from the American Trucking Associations (ATA)...

Oiltanking, Dow
conclude purchases

Oiltanking GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, and The Dow Chemical Co, Midland MI, have concluded purchase agreements for Dow's Joliet IL and Cartagena, Colombia, marine terminals...

Economic conditions
impact rail industry

Decreases in rail lease and utilization rates, as well as prices, were indicated in a railcar lessors survey conducted recently by Paul Bodnar of Longbow Research, Independent OH...

Administration urged
to support NAFTA

The Obama administration is being urged to strengthen economic and security relationships with Mexico and Canada...

Sterling Transport
joins SmartWay

Sterling Transport Co, Lakeview NC, has joined the SmartWay Transport Partnership by demonstrating efforts at enhancing the environment...

Canada to introduce biodiesel mandate by 2012

The Canadian government has announced that it will introduce a national on-road biodiesel mandate not before 2010, but no later than 2012, according to information from the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA)...

ERG2008 video
online at PHMSA

A training video is available online from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to enhance the use of the Emergency Response Guidebook 2008 (ERG2008)...

ACE asks UL
for ethanol explanation

The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) has written a letter to Underwriters Laboratories (UL) asking for an explanation of why UL has changed its position on the ability of standard gasoline pumps to handle blends of ethanol up to 15 percent...