Blogs
- 2 days ago
- Industry image
CCJ Photo Gallery: 1944: Trucking Goes to War!
It was 1944 and trucking was at war!
- 2 days ago
- safety
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 ...
- 2 days ago
- ccj symposium
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.
- 2 days ago
- indicators
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 ...
- 2 days ago
- safety
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
- 2 days ago
- big data
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
- 3 days ago
- telematics
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.
- 3 days ago
- indicators
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.
- 3 days ago
- work truck - conexpo
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 ...
- 3 days ago
- aerodynamics
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 ...
- 3 days ago
- telematics
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 ...
- 3 days ago
- indicators
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.
- 3 days ago
- purchasing
Navistar details vocational enhancements
Navistar announced it continues to invest in its severe service and medium-duty product lines by expanding vehicle enhancements and powertrain choices on International brand vocational truck models. In addition, the company will add selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emissions technology to its high horsepower mid-range engines ...
Cargo theft numbers high in 2013, threat level remains high, FreightWatch says 
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Expanding connectivity with drivers 
