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Howes Lubricator acquires U.S. Lube
Howes Lubricator Products recently announced the acquisition of US Lube.
February 3, 2014
Business
Diesel sees biggest jump in 5 months, nearing $4
The national average diesel price in the week ended Feb. 3 spiked 4.7 cents to $3.951, the largest week to week increase since Sept. 2 and the second largest in nearly a year, when the price rose 5.3 cents in the week ended Feb. 18.
February 3, 2014
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Business
NAFTA trade via truck rises as overall trade freight continues to climb
Of November 2013’s $96 billion in NAFTA trade, trucks carried 60 percent. Moreover, trucking was one of three modes of transportation (out of 5) to see a year over year increase in NAFTA freight transported in the month.
February 3, 2014
Business
Drivewyze PreClear now available on PeopleNet devices
Drivewyze and PeopleNet, a provider of fleet mobility technology for performance and decision-making management, announced that the Drivewyze PreClear weigh station bypass application is now available on PeopleNet onboard devices with a complimentary weigh station cost-analysis tool, nationwide Weigh Station Heads Up notifications, and a bypass service subscription option. The announcement follows a successful beta […]
February 3, 2014
Business
YRC announces $300 million debt reduction plan after Teamsters labor agreement
YRC has closed a deal to attempt to reduce its debt by $300 million, in which it will issue $250 million in new stock and convert $50 million in convertible notes to common stock and use the proceeds to reduce its roughly $1 billion of debt.
February 3, 2014
Business
Ryder lists Top 10 reasons truck accidents happen – issues free safety guide for drivers
Ryder Systems says it counts safety as one of its core values and today released a timely reminder to drivers to be aware of safety at all times. According to Ryder, Last year alone, there were over 500,000 large truck and commercial vehicle accidents. According to a study conducted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety […]
February 3, 2014
Business
Market for GPS fleet management still poised for growth
Ever since the late 1980s when Qualcomm started a revolution in mobile communications with Omnitracs, GPS fleet management systems have become more prevalent in the transportation industry. By now, more than 25 years later, it would seem that the market would be saturated. That’s not the case. In some respects it is saturated, at least […]
February 3, 2014
Business
2013: The year driver pay changed forever?
Driver pay researcher Gordon Klemp at a recruiting and retention conference last week pointed to a series of indicators as well as more anecdotally established patterns, supported by data, that show an increasing willingness among truckload carriers to give more rein on pay to drivers.
January 31, 2014
Business
Drivewyze offers free weigh station alerts in PreClear 3.0
Drivewyze offers a free nationwide weigh station and inspection site alert service to all truck drivers with the launch of PreClear 3.0, its weigh station app.
January 31, 2014
Business
Propane haulers in Dakotas, Florida also now exempt from hours-of-service rules
Propane haulers in North Dakota, South Dakota and Florida now are temporarily exempt from federal hours of service regulations, per two declarations issued this week by FMCSA, who has already issued exemptions for propane haulers in about two-thirds of the U.S.
January 31, 2014
Business
Driver retention key: Don’t treat drivers as a separate class
John Elliott, CEO of expediter Load One, and others stressed the best way to keep drivers happy was to treat them as equal participants in the company. Avoid a “two-class system,” Elliott said, that separates drivers from office staff in company culture.
January 31, 2014
Business
Checking out the Peterbilt 567 inside and out
CCJ Equipment Editor Jack Roberts is in Denton, Texas, this week at Peterbilt headquarters, where he’s taking the Peterbilt 567 for a test drive. Below are two videos Roberts shot of Peterbilt’s Charlie Cook, vocational product manager, giving a tour of the truck’s features.
January 31, 2014
Business
Congressman calls FMCSA’s hours study ‘worthless,’ ATA says study is ‘lacking’
Rep. Richard Hanna, an outspoken advocate against the most recent hours-of-service rule, has issued a statement saying the agency did not touch on the rule potentially forcing drivers into congested hours of the day, a point ATA echoed in its response.
January 30, 2014
Business
Bills introduced in Congress aim to boost long-haul trucking’s use of natural gas
A trio of bills have been introduced in the House would require the DOT to designate natural gas corridors, create a task force to determine natural gas barriers and give natural gas trucks an exemption to weight limits.
January 30, 2014
Business
Going out of route? Not so fast
U.S. Xpress, the nation’s second largest privately owned truckload carrier (#11 on the CCJ Top 250), has designed an application for driver managers that brings together all of its route management technology and real time alerts into one screen. U.S. Xpress has been able to reduce mileage costs by 1-2 percent by having real time […]
January 30, 2014
Business
More than distance: the evolution of truck routing technology
“Static” is how John White describes truck routing before technology in the back-office and cab caught up to reality on the ground — where the rubber meets the road.
January 30, 2014
Business
Least-cost routing
Software systems can consider a multitude of factors when designing optimal routes, instantly, for truck fleets. These so-called optimization systems integrate with transportation management (TMS), mileage and routing and in-cab navigation software, among other sources, to calculate routes instantly as conditions change. Manhattan Associates’ Fuel&Route considers the total cost of dispatch in its route optimization […]
January 30, 2014
Business
Zeroing in on tolls
The “crossroads of America” has become a continuous stretch of toll roads that connect Chicago to major metropolitan areas in the Mid-Atlantic and New England states. Going East on Interstate 90, the Chicago Skyway starts on the city’s south side for eight miles to the Indiana state line. The Indiana Toll Road takes over as […]
January 30, 2014
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