UPS on Thursday, June 30, applauded the White House and congressional leaders for pushing for votes, starting with Thursday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing, on three long-delayed free trade agreements and reaching a compromise on the Trade Adjustment Assistance program. "Robust trade will help our economy move ...

American Express Open and FedEx Corp. now will offer the Open Savings program to FedEx Freight customers using their Amex Open card for payment of less-than-truckload shipping services. Cardmembers now will save 5 percent on FedEx Freight shipping services. FedEx customers also can continue to ...

An older group of trucks not originally included in the Port of Long Beach’s Clean Trucks Program now are banned from port shipping terminals starting Friday, July 1. About 500 Class 7 trucks are barred from working at the port. Beginning in 2008, the Clean Trucks ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday, June 30, announced that $527 million will be available for a third round of the TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) competitive grant program, which funds innovative transportation projects that address job creation and making a significant impact ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Thursday, June 30, said it ordered two bus companies to immediately cease all intrastate and interstate passenger service. FMCSA says it ordered Georgia-based H & W Tour Inc. off the road within hours of the agency uncovering violations “so ...

Prime Inc. of Springfield, Mo., recently announced a new feature for any driver assigned to a truck operating under Prime’s authority. This new feature allows drivers to choose to have their Qualcomm messages delivered directly to their cell phones as text messages. “At Prime, we’re constantly ...

NationaLease inaugurated its first “Top Tech Challenge,” a national competition of technicians representing more than 100 full-service truck leasing companies from across the country in a test of truck maintenance proficiency. The top three winning technicians will compete in the TMC SuperTech Competition this September ...

Jacobs Vehicle Systems has launched a new Engine Brake for the Cummins ISX 11.9 diesel engine. The new Model 460 Engine Brake by Jacobs was developed in conjunction with Cummins engineers to provide an engine brake which offers more retarding performance, less weight, fewer components and ...

TMW Systems, a provider of enterprise transportation software, issued a statement late Wednesday, June 29, to clarify that it was not the similarly named company that recently was fined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA issued a press release earlier on Wednesday, June 29, saying ...

GITI Tire Opens Distribution Center in Tennessee Facility will mean faster delivery of GT Radial truck tires in the East GITI Tire USA has opened a distribution center in Portland, TN, to help support the company’s growing footprint in the U.S. The 200,000- square-foot warehouse will serve ...