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Volvo Trucks names Mike Randolph VP for North American accounts
Volvo Trucks recently named Mike Randolph vice president of national accounts for North America. Randolph will oversee Volvo’s national accounts team, which develops total fleet solutions for less-than-truckload, truckload and private fleets. “Mike’s wealth of industry knowledge and experience make him ideally suited to lead this important facet of our business and further the partnerships […]
August 27, 2013
Business
Alliance Truck Parts announces BumperStumper Social Media Contest
Alliance Truck Parts will be launching a new online contest to highlight its wide range of customizable bumper options, which include chrome, painted steel and stainless steel options for a dozen major truck makes and more than 130 truck models. The online contest, which will be featured on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #BumperStumper, […]
August 27, 2013
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Welcome to Honduras, Interstate Batteries!
Interstate Batteries announced the opening of an Interstate Batteries distributorship, Inversiones Internacionales, In Honduras. Based in the Honduran capital city of Tegucigalpa, the company and dealership have reached a partnership agreement to market the Interstate brand in that country under the flagship Interstate Batteries of Honduras. “We are very grateful of the opportunity to join […]
August 27, 2013
Business
Meritor receives ECE R90 disc brake certification
Meritor’s European Aftermarket business received the first ECE R90 certification for Meritor AllFit brake discs from the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA). “Passing this certification is a testament to the performance and durability of our Meritor AllFit brake disc family,” said Michael Boe, managing director, Aftermarket Europe, Meritor. “These parts have similar performance attributes as original […]
August 27, 2013
Business
Mitsubishi Fuso to offer Maximizer body on Canter truck models
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America (MFTA) has announced that it has partnered with Morgan Corporation to make Morgan’s Maximizer step-in body available on its full line of Canter FE Series cabover work trucks. The Maximizer body provides convenient, safer curb-side access to the cargo area through a low step-in entry at the body’s front passenger […]
August 27, 2013
Business
XTRA Lease extends basic trailer tracking package
XTRA Lease announced it is now providing basic trailer tracking service to fleets on new long-term leased trailers for no charge. According to the company, XTRA Lease has long offered basic trailer tracking on dry van rentals for free. The company is now including basic tracking service at no extra cost on all newly leased […]
August 27, 2013
Business
Bendix honors Truck Driving Grand Champion
Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems honors the Grand Champion winner of this year’s American Trucking Associations (ATA) National Truck Driving Championships (NTDC), held Aug. 20 to 24 in Salt Lake City, Utah. For a third straight year, Bendix is the sponsor of the Bendix National Truck Driving Championships Grand Champion Award, given to the five-day competition’s […]
August 27, 2013
Business
DOT posts 2014-2018 plan, seeks comment
The U.S. Department of Transportation is looking at the big picture, and is asking the public for their thoughts on making transportation more efficient and safer.
August 27, 2013
Business
Pilot Flying J settlement: too little, too soon?
As civil lawsuits pile up in the wake of federal allegations concerning Pilot Flying J’s fuel rebate program, questions are being raised about the proposed settlement of a class action filed in Arkansas.
August 27, 2013
Business
Cargo theft up 1 percent
Cargo thefts were up 1 percent in May-July, and the average loss per incident was valued at $147,260, up 23 percent from the previous quarter.
August 26, 2013
Business
Trailer, Class 8 orders drop in July
Trailer orders and Class 8 orders were down in July, the historically weakest order month of the year.
August 26, 2013
Business
Final rule for Unified Registration System issued by FMCSA
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will begin operating the Unified Registration System in 2015, but has set a Nov. 1 compliance date for biennial updates. The agency published the URS final rule Aug. 23 establishing the new electronic system. The URS is intended to streamline registration, act as clearinghouse and depository of information and […]
August 23, 2013
Business
Qualcomm sells Omnitracs for $800M
Qualcomm Incorporated announced on Friday, Aug. 23, that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its subsidiary Omnitracs to Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a U.S.-based private equity firm. Subject to the terms and conditions of the definitive agreement, Vista will purchase Omnitracs for$800 million in cash. Rumors of the pending sale of the Omnitracs division have […]
August 23, 2013
Business
Need for U.S. energy plan: urgent, or ‘hogwash’?
Does the U.S. need a national energy policy, or is the country better served by the marketplace? Oilman turned natural gas cheerleader (and prominent investor) T. Boone Pickens says it’s an outrage the U.S. doesn’t have a formal, long-range plan. His particular bone to pick is with OPEC, or rather with American dependence on nations […]
August 23, 2013
Business
Motorola survey shows a changing role of technology in warehousing
Motorola Solutions, a provider of mission-critical communication systems and services, announced results of a research study that details shifts in the plans of warehouse professionals across several industries. As a result of these changes, the role of technology in warehouses has shifted from purely reducing costs and has increasingly expanded into adjacent benefits that can […]
August 23, 2013
Business
New uDrove EOBR combines mobile with business management
As the industry moves increasingly in the direction of ubiquitous electronic logging device use — and a federal mandate looms — uDrove has unveiled its uDrove Pro and uDrove Prime products for fleets and drivers to use for not only hours-of-service compliance, but for fleet and business management. The uDrove Pro — the hardware component […]
August 23, 2013
Business
Rand McNally integrates with Prophesy Dispatch
Accellos, a provider of supply chain execution software systems, announced an integration between its Prophesy Dispatch transportation management software (TMS) and Rand McNally’s in-cab mobile fleet management devices. The new integration is designed to allow dispatchers and drivers to focus more on their jobs and less on the legwork of communicating load information. When a […]
August 23, 2013
Business
Red Classic Services rolls out Rand McNally’s TND 760
Rand McNally announced that Red Classic Services, a full-service transportation company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., has implemented its TND 760 mobile fleet management system. The TND 760 devices replace a previous system that handled electronic logging and mileage recording for International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA) processing. Red Classic considered more than ten different platforms during […]
August 23, 2013
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