Paccar’s Pigott: Long-term focus on success

Paccar announced the official introduction of its MX Series Diesel Engines and the opening this summer of its new engine plant in Columbus, Miss., during a press event at the company’s Technical Center in Mount Vernon, Wash., on Friday, Feb. 5. Not many companies are taking ... (more...)

CCJ selects O&S Trucking as Innovator of the Year

Springfield, Mo.-based O&S Trucking’s efforts to carry the same amount of freight in nine loads that used to take 10 and to brand that offering to gain a competitive edge earned the trucking company the distinction as Commercial Carrier Journal’s 2010 Innovator of the Year. O&S Trucking ... (more...)

YRC Worldwide posts improved 4Q results

YRC Worldwide Inc. today, Feb. 5, reported year-over-year and continued sequential improvement in its fourth quarter 2009 results. For the quarter ending Dec. 31, the company announced pretax income of $50 million that included a net gain on note exchanges of $194 million, lease termination charges ... (more...)

CARB launches $20M hybrid truck funding assistance program

The California Air Resources Board on Wednesday, Feb. 3, launched a $20 million funding assistance program designed to spur the purchase of hybrid trucks and buses to help reduce smog-forming pollution and address climate change. Funding incentives range from $10,000 to $45,000, and each vehicle purchaser, ... (more...)

ATA joins suit challenging California low-carbon fuel standard

The American Trucking Associations on Tuesday, Feb. 2, joined petroleum refiners and other end-users in a legal challenge to California’s recently enacted low-carbon fuel standard. The regulation adopted by the California Air Resources Board requires annual reductions in the carbon intensity of gasoline and diesel over the ... (more...)

Pegasus TransTech announced that it signed hundreds of new fleet and brokerage customers for Transflo Express truckstop scanning in 2009, the worst recessionary year for trucking in memory. In fact, fleets and brokers signed up ... (more...)
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    Goodyear’s G296 WHA super-single waste haul steer tire joins the company’s drive/steer G289 WHA and is available in 425/65R22.5 sizing in load ... (more...)
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