Blogs
- 15 hours ago
- transmissions
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 ...
- 16 hours ago
- fuel economy
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 ...
- 18 hours ago
- aerodynamics
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 ...
- 3 days ago
- work truck - conexpo
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 ...
- 3 days ago
- Industry image
CCJ Photo Gallery: 1944: Trucking Goes to War!
It was 1944 and trucking was at war!
- 3 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 ...
- 3 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.
- 3 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 ...
- 3 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
- 3 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.
- March 6, 2014
- 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 ...
Cargo theft numbers high in 2013, threat level remains high, FreightWatch says 
Will new engine designs change the game? 
Navistar reports $248 million loss in first quarter of 2014 FY 
Expanding connectivity with drivers 
