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Phillips enters trailer light market with Innotec partnership

At a press conference at the American Trucking Association's annual Technology & Maintenance Council Conference, Phillips Industries announced a partnership to become the exclusive distributor ...

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Electronic Logging Device rule poised to miss yet another projected publication date

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Cummins, Eaton expand SmartAdvantage powertrain offering

At a press conference at the American Trucking Association’s annual Technology & Maintenance Council Conference in Nashville, Cummins and Eaton announced expansions to their integrated powertrain partnership announced last year that included the Cummins ISX15 diesel engine and the Eaton Fuller Advantage automated manual transmission. Cummins’s ...

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Dana introduces driveline components at TMC

Heavy-duty component manufacturer Dana announced at the TMC Show in Nashville, TN, that it has several new and enhanced products for the North American truck market. The company's 40,000 pound Spicer AdvanTek 40 tandem axle has entered initial production with Kenworth and Peterbilt. This includes 13 ...

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ATDynamics says 200,000 TrailerTails on the road by 2017

Aerodynamic device manufacturer ATDynamics says the market for its TrailerTail rear drag aerodynamic line continues to grow at a rapid pace. Steve Rogers, director of marketing for the company, said today at a press conference at the TMC Show in Nashville, TN, that the company ...

Slideshow: The trucks on display at ConExpo

CCJ sister site Equipment World's editors are on hand at the ConExpo/ConAgg construction show this week in Las Vegas, and EW's Wayne Grayson has posted a 47-photo slideshow of some of the trucks on display at the show. Above is a sampling of some of his photos — Click ...

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CCJ Photo Gallery: 1944: Trucking Goes to War!

It was 1944 and trucking was at war!

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Meritor announces product enhancements, renames brake products

Meritor says it's renaming and enhancing two braking products to help customers identify these products and improve their total cost of ownership, the company says. As part of a new naming structure, Meritor drum brakes that had been branded QPlus are now Q+; and air ...

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Ben Stein set to give keynote at CCJ Summer Symposium

Actor, author, economist and pop culture icon Ben Stein will deliver the keynote address at the first annual CCJ Summer Symposium in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, Calif., at 8 a.m.

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Trucking employment flat in February, economy adds 175k jobs

The for-hire trucking industry did not add or lose any payroll jobs in February on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the monthly employment report from the DOL, who also downwardly revised January's preliminary figure of 3,200 added jobs to 2,600 jobs added in the ...

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Con-way Freight deploys suite of advanced safety technology

Con-way Freight, a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier and subsidiary of Con-way Inc., announced the full deployment of Drive Safe Systems, a suite of advanced on-board “monitor, sense and alert” technologies

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Schneider to deploy FleetRisk Advisors’ safety, retention models

FleetRisk Advisors, a strategic business unit of Omnitracs, LLC, announced that multi-national trucking company Schneider will deploy FleetRisk Advisors’ Driver Safety and Driver Retention models

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Expanding connectivity with drivers

For drivers, staying connected is easy since they are the ones who decide how, when and where to use personal devices. From a fleet management perspective, connectivity is a more complicated equation.

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Trucking conditions remain ‘very positive’ for fleets, FTR says

In its monthly Trucking Conditions Index, FTR says its data in January still shows conditions for trucking companies to be "in very positive territory," as capacity remains tight.

Nissan, FedEx to test fully electric cargo vans

Nissan will send one of its new fully-electric vans to FedEx Express (No. 2 in the CCJ Top 250) by month's end as the package delivery behemoth looks to further shrink its carbon footprint. Evan Fulton, Nissan Planner - Light Commercial Vehicle said at the Work ...