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The mobile network: using apps to stay connected with drivers
Recent developments in mobility give small transportation companies an economical way to deploy new functions quickly
August 15, 2016
PeopleNet’s Connected Driver app gives drivers a view of their current dispatch status.
Business
O&G Industries equips fleet with SmartDrive video program
As part of the rollout, 45 of O&G’s concrete mixers will be equipped with SmartDrive 360, a system that integrates with its vehicles’ existing back-up cameras.
August 15, 2016
SmartDrive transmits critical video and event data to the office for review by fleet managers in near real time.
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Speed limiter mandate clears final hurdle, set for publication
Little has been made public about the rule’s contents, however, such as what the regulated speed limit would be, when the rule would take effect and which trucks would be required to comply with the mandate. Those details will be made known once the rule proposal is published in the Federal Register.
August 15, 2016
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CCJ Market Movers panel to focus on e-commerce’s impact on trucking
E-commerce and its effects on the trucking industry will be the topic of discussion during the CCJ Market Movers town hall-style discussion at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas next month.
August 15, 2016
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Truckloads app reaches 100k downloads for freight matching
Trucker Path announced that its transportation marketplace app, Truckloads, has reached 100,000 downloads. The app was publicly released in April 2016.
August 15, 2016
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Bendix announces no-cost fix for spring brake valve recall
Bendix announced Monday it is making available a no-cost permanent remedy kit for trailers affected by a recent recall campaign. Several trailer OEMs have recalled nearly 40,000 trailers equipped with the Bendix SR-5 spring brake valve, which is sold outright and also included in Bendix antilock braking (ABS) kits for trailers. In response to the recall, Bendix part […]
August 15, 2016
Bendix SR-5 Spring Brake Valve
Business
Kenworth beefs up options for T370
The T370 – already offered with heavy duty 16,000-lb, 18,000-lb. and 20,000-lb. front axles – can also be paired with 46,000-lb. rear axles for dump, fuel delivery, utility, crane, service trucks, or mixers operations.
August 15, 2016
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How Mobile-Based Driver Safety Can Optimize Your Fleet Operations
August 14, 2016
Business
Kenworth adding Advantage efficiency package to T680 daycab
In designing the daycab truck, Kurt Swihart, Kenworth marketing manager, says the company borrowed fuel-efficiency optimization specifications and aerodynamic treatments on its T680 Advantage 76-inch sleeper – the truck maker’s most fuel-efficient truck.
August 12, 2016
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Kenworth shuttering T660 production
Kenworth will send the truck out with a limited production run of 500 units.
August 12, 2016
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Mike Dozier takes mantle as Kenworth GM
Mike Dozier inherits a team at Kenworth that has helped its parent company Paccar achieve 77 consecutive years of net profit with $8.7 billion in revenue for the first half of this year.
August 12, 2016
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CCJ Innovators
CCJ Innovator Roadrunner Transportation knows the fast track to success – and the slower route to satisfying customers
“It’s literally the need for speed vs. dependability,” Crawford says. “When you lay out the math, the cost savings and everything else for the customers, they look across their offerings and see ways they can make it work.”
August 12, 2016
Roadrunner Transportation Systems’ Peter Armbruster, chief financial officer, left, and Mark DiBlasi, CEO, are firsthand witnesses to the company’s rapid growth.
Business
FMCSA begins campaign for better driving around trucks
Through the new campaign, dubbed “Our Roads, Our Responsibility,” FMCSA suggests several tips to motorists sharing the road with trucks.
August 12, 2016
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ATA wins case against New York’s use of trucking-paid toll funds
ATA, along with three trucking companies, seek refunds for interstate truckers who drove the Thruway since Nov. 14, 2010, three years before the lawsuit was filed.
August 12, 2016
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Bendix trailer brake valve recall includes 9,000 more trailers
Nearly 40,000 trailers are now included in a recall stemming from an issue with Bendix SR-5 Trailer Spring Brake Valves.
August 11, 2016
Bendix SR-5 Spring Brake Valve
Business
ATRI, DOT working to develop program to ease congestion on major U.S. freight corridors
ATRI led the way in developing two primers for the DOT’s ICM program, which is intended “for transportation networks to realize significant improvements in the efficient movement of people and goods through integrated, proactive management of existing infrastructure along major corridors.”
August 11, 2016
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Trucking sees little play in official Democratic, Republican policy platforms; parties diverge on highway funding
In short, Republicans call on greater private sector funding of highways and bridges and making the most of current funding levels, whereas Democrats say they want to ramp up federal spending on U.S. transportation infrastructure.
August 11, 2016
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Here’s how much trucking paid in highway user taxes in 2015
ATA’s annual Trucking Trends report for 2016 revealed the industry took in $726.4 billion in freight revenue, accounting for 81.5 percent of all revenue spent in the U.S. on freight transportation. Here’s how much of that was paid in highway use taxes.
August 11, 2016
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