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Truck tonnage
index increases 

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 1.7 percent in November, marking the first month-to-month improvement since June 2008. ...

EPA grants Cummins
maintenance variation 

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted Cummins Power Generation Inc a new and limited variation in the emission-related scheduled maintenance interval for the exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve....

FMCSA rejects petition
to preempt CA meal, rest rule 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has rejected a petition for preemption of California laws and regulations requiring employers to provide employees with meal and rest breaks, according to information published in the Federal Register December 24. ...

Oil product deliveries
fall in November 

November oil product deliveries fell 7.4 percent from a year ago to the lowest November level since 1998, according to the American Petroleum Institute's (API) Monthly Statistical Report. ...

ExxonMobil expanding
ULSD production 

ExxonMobil Refining and Supply, Fairfax VA, will invest more than $1 billion in three refineries to increase the supply of ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) by about six million gallons per day, according to ExxonMobil information. ...

Rollover prevention topic
for Bulk Transporter webinar 

Tank truck rollover prevention will be the first topic of Bulk Transporter's new webinars scheduled to begin February 18, according to Chuck Wilson, Bulk Transporter editor and webinar moderator....

Trucking leaders
praise LaHood nomination  

Trucking industry representatives are voicing support for President-Elect Barack Obama's nomination of Rep Ray LaHood (R-Illinois) as Secretary of Transportation...

FHWA clarifies
vest rule 

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has clarified a rule that requires all workers, including cargo tank vehicle drivers, to wear a high visibility vest when standing in a "federal aid highway" right-of-way, according to NEON,, the New England Fuel Institute (NEFI) newsletter...

ATA criticizes
HOS challenge 

A petition that asks the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to reconsider some of the details of the driver hour-of-service (HOS) rules is ill-advised and raises no new substantive safety issues, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) said in a news release December 19...

CARB mandates truck exhaust retrofit  

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has adopted two regulations to require truck owners to install diesel exhaust filters on their rigs, with nearly all vehicles upgraded by 2014...

ATA: Study fails to consider
new truck emission reductions 

A study of 31,135 trucking workers that indicated they showed an elevated risk of lung cancer with increasing years of work does not accurately portray today’s industry, Glen Kedzie, vice-president and environmental affairs counsel, American Trucking Associations, said in a letter to Bulk Transporter...

New emissions rule impacts storage, transloading 

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a final New Source Review rule that requires consistent accounting for air emissions that are not released through a stack, vent, or other confined air stream...

ATA, Codega introduce driver program 

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) and Codega, LLC have introduced the ProTraining Safety Series 1 program to educate truck drivers, particularly new and younger professionals, about basic truck safety concepts, rules, and practices...

Diesel price
falls to $2.422 

The average price of diesel last week fell almost 10 cents per gallon to $2.422, according to information from the Department of Energy...

Trucking continues
to be major employer 

The trucking industry continues to be a major employer in the United States with 8.9 million people in trucking-related jobs in 2007, according to an American Trucking Associations (ATA) report...

FMCSA issues new
carrier safety audit rule 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has issued a final rule that addresses new carrier safety requirements and makes a carrier's failure to comply with any one of the 16 regulations an automatic failure of the safety audit, according to information published in the Federal Register December 16...

Bulk Transporter news available on mobile devices via Twitter 

Bulk Transporter readers can now view each day’s top stories via a mobile phone or other device using Twitter, an online social-networking site that utilizes brief messages of 140 characters or less to communicate information...

NACS argues against ATC in California 

A staff report by the California Energy Commission (CEC) has concluded that that implementation of automatic temperature compensation (ATC) in California would increase overall costs to consumers, according to information from the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS)...

CARB survey shows elevated cancer risk in Teamsters 

A survey of 31,135 men who were members of the Teamsters Union indicated that trucking industry workers showed an elevated risk of lung cancer with increasing years of work, according to information from the California Air Resources Board (CARB)...

Freight Index
rises in October 

The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) rose 1.0 percent in October from its September level, rising after two consecutive monthly declines, the Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported...

Christmas Eve dinner
set for working truckers 

Volvo Trucks North America is saluting truck drivers who work Christmas Eve by providing a free holiday dinner at participating Flying J travel plazas in the United States and Canada...

ATA supports
pension relief bill 

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) said it is applauding the Senate’s passage of a pension relief bill that ATA believes will help ease the financial strain on American businesses due to the lagging economy and current volatility in the financial markets...

CTA stressing weight issues for enviroTruck initiative 

The Canadian Trucking Alliance is stressing the importance for all Canadian provincial governments to act swiftly on regulations that would allow weight and length considerations for key components of CTA’s enviroTruck initiative...

Kenworth dealer provides trucks for Oakland port 

Bay Area Kenworth, Oakland CA, recently introduced Kenworth T800 liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucks into operation at the Port of Oakland, according to Kenworth information...

Bendix to acquire
SmarTire Systems 

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC, Elyria OH, plans to acquire the assets of SmarTire Systems Inc of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...

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