California ports delay collection fee  

Collection of the Clean Truck Fee (CTF) assessed by the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach CA scheduled to have begun November 17 will be delayed pending resolution of outstanding regulatory issues...

Railroad concerns prompt competition study 

Railroad industry stakeholders continue to be concerned over competition, captivity, rates, service performance, and financial viability, according to a recent study commissioned by the Surface Transportation Board (STB)...

Vopak acquires company in Turkey 

Royal Vopak, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has acquired GY Elyaf ve Iplik Sanayi Ticaret Anonim Sirketi from Global Yatirim Holding AS with plans to construct a storage terminal on the coast of the Sea of Marmara, according to Vopak information....

OPEC pumps 32.26 million b/d of crude oil in October 

The 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 32.26 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in October, according to a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials just released...

NACD files comments
on hazmat security 

The National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) has filed comments with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) on a notice of proposed rulemaking to narrow the list of materials subject to security plan requirements, according to NACD information...

Boasso America expands
NJ tank container service 

Boasso America Corporation, a subsidiary of Quality Distribution Inc, Tampa FL, has expanded its network by opening a $6 million full-scale tank container service depot in Newark NJ and is planning expansion of its Savannah GA facility...

TravelCenters sets DEF distribution plans 

TravelCenters of America LLC (TA), based in Westlake OH, has reaffirmed its plans to distribute diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) at all of its TA and Petro branded locations in 2009...

Navistar to reorganize
truck segment 

Navistar International Corp, Warrenville IL, will organize its truck segment into four business units...

Haldex to reduce
global workforce by 700 

Haldex AB, Stockholm, Sweden, has announced it will reduce its global workforce by 700 employees by mid-2009...

UK team wins hazmat training award 

The AP 483 team of the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Administration's (CAA) Dangerous Goods Office has won the Training Keystone Award sponsored by Labelmaster...

NEFI reminds carriers about state registrations 

The New England Fuel Institute (NEFI) is reminding fuel dealers that they may be required to register and pay fees in certain states where they formerly were not required to comply with unified carrier registration...

Fuel oil industry
faces high fixed rates 

The New England Fuel Institute (NEFI) and New England fuel oil dealers are seeking a meeting with the federal government after many customers opted to sign up for fixed rates when the cost of the product skyrocketed through mid-July, according to NEFI information...

Diesel price falls
to 2007 levels 

The average price of diesel continued on its downward slide last week, falling over 14 cents to $2.944 per gallon, the lowest since September 2007...

Railcar orders falling 

FTR Associates, Nashville IN, has sharply reduced its expectations for railcar orders in 2009, in response to the fast-deteriorating condition of the general economy...

DOT revises rule Web site 

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has made revisions to its regulatory information Web site in an effort to ease public participation in the rulemaking process, according to DOT information...

NAFTA surface trade
rises in August 

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners, Canada and Mexico was 4.5 percent higher in August 2008 than in August 2007, reaching $72.3 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the Department of Transportation...

C-TPAT seal required
on Canadian trailers  

The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) is warning all C-TPAT carriers in Canada that their designation as a secure, low-risk business could be lost for a considerable period of time for not having a certified seal on every trailer entering the United States...

Volatile market douses diesel survey 

NATSO Inc, the association of the travel plaza and truckstop industry, has announced the suspension of its diesel volume survey as a result of the volatile petroleum market...

EPA publishes revision to hazmat chemical reporting 

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published a final rule with what it said are minor revisions to the Emergency Planning Notification, Emergency Release Notification and Hazardous Chemical Reporting regulations...

Odyssey Logistics
supports CIDX standards 

Odyssey Logistics and Technology Corp, Danbury CT, has announced its support for the Chem eStandards business-to-business integration approach developed by Chemical Industry Data Exchange (CIDX) standards...

USDG gets ethanol
at Maryland terminal 

US Development Group LLC (USDG), Pasadena TX, has begun to receive and offload ethanol railcar unit trains at its Baltimore MD Transload Terminal, a multi-modal ethanol distribution hub serving the mid-Atlantic region...

Report on Mexican trucks
finds few OOS rates 

Although a report on Mexican trucks crossing into the United States indicated a larger sample of carriers is needed to make a statistically significant comparison of safety performance, the findings showed that the project participants had lower out-of-service rates (OOS) relative to the OOS rates for all US-domiciled trucks...

Mack sponsors ATA Share the Road program 

Mack Trucks Inc, Allentown PA, will continue as primary sponsor of the 2009 Share the Road Program, a program of the American Trucking Associations (ATA).

The company made the announcement after receiving an award for its support of the program at the ATA’s Management Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans LA. Mack was recognized for its 2008 sponsorship of the ATA program.

Designed to enhance the safety of America's roadways by teaching car drivers how to safely drive around large trucks, Share the Road uses as spokespeople a group of professional truck drivers with exemplary safety records. These drivers conduct safety demonstrations for local media, students, community leaders and highway users in cities around the United States as a way to deliver the program's life-saving messages about potential blind spots, safe following distances, truck stopping distances and the like. ...

Volvo to continue Road Team sponsorship 

Volvo Trucks North America, Greensboro NC, will continue as sponsor of the America's Road Team, a program of the American Trucking Associations (ATA)...

Some TWIC activation now available 

Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)workers already in compliance in New England ports are now able to activate their cards after the TWIC computer system was down from a power outage...