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Business
Navistar reports $247 million loss in 3Q, plans to cut 500 employees
Navistar Sept. 4 reported a net loss of $247 million in the third quarter of 2013, following the $347 million net loss reported by the company in the second quarter of this year.
September 4, 2013
Business
Diesel price rises 6.8 cents to $3.981
Diesel prices fell 1.3 cents nationwide to $3.896 a gallon during the week ended Aug. 12. Diesel is down 6.9 cents from the same week last year.
September 4, 2013
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Business
Internet Truckstop adds ‘OnBoarding’ service for brokers
Internet Truckstop has a new carrier OnBoarding system that brokers can use to save time and money on monitoring, collecting data and data input. “This simplifies and refines the process of OnBoarding for transportation as we know it,” said Thayne Boren, vice president of sales. “The whole process that would take faxing, emailing, signing and […]
September 3, 2013
Business
International adds Cummins ISB to medium-duty lineup
International announced during a telephone press conference today, September, 3, 2013, that it is adding the Cummins ISB, 6.7 liter, medium-duty engine as an option for its DuraStar and IC Bus CE Bus models. According to Bill Kozek, president, North American Truck and Parts, International will continue to build and offer its proprietary DT and […]
September 3, 2013
Business
Rates continue seasonal declines
Per-mile rates on the spot market fell in all three segments in August — the first time all three have dropped since January. After seeing a big spike in May and June (and reaching record highs), dry van and reefer rates have each fallen the last two months. Flatbed was flat in July from June, […]
September 3, 2013
Business
Freightliner announces NASCAR Hauler Challenge Sweepstakes
Freightliner Trucks, the Official Hauler of NASCAR, announces its NASCAR Weekend “Freightliner Hauler Challenge” Sweepstakes. Running Sept. 1-28, 2013, the sweepstakes is part of the newly enhanced “Freightliner Hauler Challenge: Journey to Homestead” app, and gives users the opportunity to win one of four all-expense-paid trips to Florida for the chance to see the 2013 […]
September 3, 2013
Business
Cummins Cal Pacific and Cummins West to merge companies
Cummins Cal Pacific LLC and Cummins West Inc. announce their plans to merge into a single entity, Cummins Pacific LLC, effective Sept. 28, 2013. Cummins Pacific will serve California and Hawaii as exclusive distributor for Cummins Inc., the global power leader headquartered in Columbus, Ind. The merger will provide a more streamlined Cummins service, sales […]
September 3, 2013
Business
Hours-of-service: House reps send letter to Foxx ‘expressing deep concern’
Fifty-one representatives from the U.S. House have sent Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx a letter to “express [their] continued deep concern” about the hours-of-service rule that went into effect July 1, pointing to the 34-hour restart provision within the rule as restrictive and not studied sufficiently. The letter asks that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety […]
September 3, 2013
Business
Grote embraces DOE’s Lighting Facts program
As part of its ongoing program of providing better LED lamp performance information, Grote Industries has joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lighting Facts program to provide correct, accurate, and useful LED information for all its LED work lamps. In many cases, LED lamp performance information has been found wanting, with lumen measurement based on […]
September 3, 2013
Business
Conventional fuels will continue to power trucking, says Shell
Though there will be an uptake in alternative fuel sources in the next few decades, conventional fuels like diesel will continue to reign, says Shell’s Richard Tucker.
September 3, 2013
Business
The little guys behind the CCJ Top 250
Owner-operators represent a sizeable share of big carriers’ capacity.
September 3, 2013
Business
Labor Day: Working hard and hardly working
In honor of the national holiday, here’s a round-up of recent headlines suitable for the occasion, including an unusual atlas of the U.S.; Teamster jokes; tales of greedy, spying CEOs; and some sobering statistics about how comparatively dangerous it is to be a professional truck driver.
September 2, 2013
Perspectives
Poll: What is your biggest obstacle when considering natural gas engines?
September 1, 2013
Business
N.C. further limits tolling with legislation
North Carolina’s governor has signed the second of two bills that limit the state’s ability to toll existing lanes.
August 30, 2013
Business
Congress again considers ‘clean ports’
Congress is considering for the third time in three years a Clean Ports Act, a measure that would allow ports greater control over trucks serving their facilities.
August 30, 2013
Business
Thomas Built Buses sponsors back to school photo contest
It’s back to school season for students across the country which means freshly sharpened pencils and new school clothes. For 25 million students, back to school also means yellow school buses, which provide them access to education. To celebrate riding the school bus back to school and the impact that education makes in the lives […]
August 29, 2013
Business
Idle Free inks deal with New England Mack dealership
Idle Free Systems, Inc. and Ballard Mack Sales and Service, Inc. have penned a agreement naming Ballard a distributor of Idle Free’s Complete Electric Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) Solution in the Northeast United States. Ballard Mack Sales and Service provides bumper-to-bumper service on tractors, trailers and trucks for Mack, Volvo, Hino, Fuso and UD, and […]
August 29, 2013
Business
Kenworth’s Renton Plant receives Eco Honors
The Kenworth Truck Company assembly plant in Renton, Wash., recently received a 2013 Best Workplace for Waste Prevention and Recycling Award from the King County (Wash.) Solid Waste Division for its exceptional efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle. It marked the fifth consecutive year that Kenworth – Renton has received the award, which enabled the […]
August 29, 2013
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