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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 ...

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

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 ...

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ATDynamics to offer combination aerodynamic packages to meet new truck mpg regulations

ATDynamics announced that in response to President Obama’s recent orders for tighter fuel efficiency standards for heavy duty trucks, it will offer trucking fleets aerodynamic equipment combination packages that have been tested at the Auto Research Center (ARC) wind tunnel in Indianapolis, Indiana to deliver ...

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5 strategies to ‘consumerize’ technology for trucking

Any driver, fleet manager or executive with a smart phone or tablet device has an expectation for technology. They expect the things they can do in their personal life to be just as easy in their profession. At first glance, this expectation may seem impossible to ...

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Traffic congestion spikes in 2013 on heels of economic growth, report shows

Traffic congestion in the U.S. shot up in 2013 on the heels of economic expansion, according to a report this week released by traffic data firm Inrix. 2014 could be worse, according to the report.