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FMCSA shuts down Kentucky-based driver after failed field sobriety test, unauthorized passengers
A Kentucky-based truck driver has been effectively shut down by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for a bevy of violations, including a failed field sobriety test.
May 20, 2016
Business
Indicators: Trucking conditions plunged in March
Closing out the first quarter of the year, market conditions for trucking companies fell a staggering 50 percent in March from February, according to FTR’s monthly Trucking Conditions Index. FTR cited weak economic growth and slow freight gains as the reason for the index’s decline.
May 20, 2016
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New Kenworth dealership opens in Phoenix
The 110,000 square-foot facility is part of an 85-acre business park which also includes new locations for a truck stop with a restaurant and tire center, along with a truck wash and a trailer business.
May 20, 2016
Business
Trucking faces capacity crisis, shifting distribution patterns, analyst says
A regulation-driven capacity crisis will slam trucking sometime in mid-2017 to as late as 2018, John Larkin, managing director, Stifel Financial Corporation, told fleet executives at the CCJ Spring Symposium this week. Consequently, shippers see the current market as their last chance to push rates down before an inevitable rate upswing, he said.
May 19, 2016
Business
Senate clears bill that could initiate hours of service reform
The Senate overwhelmingly passed a transportation funding bill Thursday, May 19, that could change hours of service rules for truck operators, should the House also pass the bill and the president sign it.
May 19, 2016
Business
Mack testing zero-emission capable drayage trucks
Mack’s efforts will build upon its experiences in designing and demonstrating a plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) drayage truck based on a Mack Pinnacle daycab model.
May 19, 2016
Business
Washington insiders get hands-on with Bendix driver assist features
This year’s proving ground demonstration was the sixth time in recent years – and first with MEMA – that Bendix has provided government and industry leaders an up-close educational look at its technologies.
May 19, 2016
Business
Kenworth publishes new T880 brochure
The Kenworth T880 Brochure is available from Kenworth dealers in the United States and Canada or online.
May 19, 2016
Business
Chief entering heavy duty collision repair market
The equipment line includes a new Centurion heavy-duty frame rack; Cam Scan HD photogrammetric measuring system; Vulcan ADU adhesive debonding unit; Chief heavy-duty rivet gun; Chief blind rivet attachment for PNP90 rivet gun; Rotary Lift Mach Series mobile column lifts; Chassis-Liner Heavy-Duty Trucker frame rack.
May 19, 2016
Business
221 cargo theft incidents reported in first quarter
Food and drinks continued to be the most stolen product type in the quarter, accounting for 20 percent of total thefts in the U.S.
May 19, 2016
Business
Google vets eyeing ‘self-driving’ truck
Otto, a company founded by ex-Google engineers – and with some help from former employees from Tesla and Amazon – tested one of their Volvo trucks outfitted with its self-driving gear in Nevada last weekend, according to The New York Times.
May 19, 2016
Business
Commercial truck registrations fall during first three months of 2016
Freightliner remains the leader in Class 8 with a 38 percent segment share of new registrations during the quarter.
May 19, 2016
Business
Hours controversy continues as Senate set to vote on measure to restore 2013 34-hour restart rules
Like the House plan floated Tuesday, Blumenthal’s amendment would effectively nullify the results of the study and its impact on hours of service regulations. However, unlike the House plan, it takes the opposite approach: Instead of reverting back to 2011 rules on a permanent basis, it would revert back to restart rules that took effect July 1, 2013.
May 18, 2016
Business
Kenworth kicking off $17M Ohio truck plant construction project
Kenworth’s plant in Chillicothe, Ohio, is undergoing a $17 million construction project to enhance assembly efficiencies, the company announced Wednesday.
May 18, 2016
Business
Mitchell 1 to provide maintenance, repair software to First Vehicle Services
The agreement gives First Vehicle Services technicians access to Mitchell 1’s TruckSeries and ProDemand software programs.
May 18, 2016
Business
Education, training key in driver recruitment and retention, panel says
With driver turnover hovering at 100-plus percent, a panel was assembled at the CCJ Symposium in Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday to tackle two of the biggest buzzwords in trucking: recruitment and retention.
May 18, 2016
Business
Point-counterpoint: Owner-operator and carrier interest groups spar over ELDs and speed limiters, harp on need for truck parking
Once again making clear the sometimes wide divide between large and small carriers on some of the industry’s key regulatory and operational issues, Todd Spencer of OOIDA and Ted Scott of ATA spoke in a point-counterpoint session May 17 at CCJ’s annual Spring Symposium in Birmingham, Ala., butting heads over electronic logging devices, speed limiters, allowing 18-21 truckers to drive interstate and more.
May 18, 2016
Business
Covenant Transport exec discusses ‘culture of excellence’ at Spring Symposium
Doug Schrier gave a presentation about how CTG went through a turnaround by creating a culture of excellence at the CCJ Spring Symposium on Tuesday, May 17, in Birmingham, Ala.
May 17, 2016
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