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Mack joins Memorial Day Rolling Thunder Ride for Freedom rally

Mack Trucks employees recently honored America’s fallen or missing military heroes during the Memorial Day weekend Rolling Thunder Ride for Freedom rally. Employees from the Mack Customer Center and Macungie Assembly Operations, both located in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, caravanned to Hagerstown, Md., for a memorial ceremony at the company’s powertrain plant. Following the ceremony, Lehigh […]

June 5, 2012

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ATA: FMCSA should release CSA police report study

The American Trucking Associations on Monday, June 4, called on Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne Ferro to release the results of the agency’s study on the use of police reports to determine crash accountability. “FMCSA continues to use crashes that motor carriers did not cause nor could have prevented in measuring motor carrier safety […]

June 4, 2012

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NRCME information meeting set for June 11

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced that a public meeting for National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners testing providers on Monday, June 11, from 1 to 4 ET to help providers understand the NRCME regulation and their role so they can make an informed decision about their participation. The meeting will take place at […]

June 4, 2012

U.S. diesel price keeps falling

The national average retail diesel price fell 5.1 cents to $3.846 a gallon – the lowest price in five months – during the week ended Monday, June 4, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration. The average price has fallen 30.2 cents in the past eight weeks and is 9.4 cents below […]

June 4, 2012

Gates app measures serpentine belt wear

Gates Corp., a manufacturer of industrial and automotive products, announced the launch of the Parts Image Capture Gauge Belt Wear App, a smartphone app designed to deliver accurate measurement and evaluation of serpentine belt wear. Using digital imaging technology in concert with industry-standard specifications for serpentine belts, Gates PIC Gauge utilizes a photograph taken with […]

June 4, 2012

Quality Distribution completes Wylie Bice acquisition

Quality Distribution on Monday, June 4, announced that it has completed its acquisition of certain operating assets of Wylie Bice Trucking. Quality says it anticipates completing the previously announced acquisition of the operating assets and rights of RM Resources in the immediate future. Headquartered in Killdeer, N.D., Bice is a provider of transportation services to […]

June 4, 2012

Werner unveils Wall of Honor for drivers

Werner Enterprises held a presentation to honor its professional drivers at the Omaha, Neb.-based company’s annual picnic June 2 at Werner Park, home of the AAA minor league baseball team – the Omaha Storm Chasers. With more than 700 associates and their families in attendance, Gary Werner, chairman, and Derek Leathers, president and chief operating […]

June 4, 2012

Bendix endorses National Tire Safety Week, CVSA’s Roadcheck

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, a provider of active safety and braking system technologies, endorsed the goals of both National Tire Safety Week, set for June 3-9, and the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Roadcheck program, which this year takes place June 5-7. National Tire Safety Week, sponsored by the Rubber Manufacturers Association to raise consumer awareness […]

June 4, 2012

FleetPride acquires Catco Parts & Service

FleetPride Inc., a retailer of heavy-duty truck and trailer parts, announced on Monday, June 4, that it has acquired the assets of Clutch and Transmission Service Inc., which operates as Catco Parts & Service. This acquisition, terms of which were not released, includes 18 locations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota and Illinois. Catco […]

June 4, 2012

Minimizer fenders sold on Cat heavy-duty equipment

Minimizer announced that select Cat distributorships have begun selling Minimizer fenders for their heavy-duty tractors and trailers. Butler Cat of Rapid City, S.D., recently held a breakfast open house to showcase the distributor’s tractors and trailers sporting the Minimizer liquid platium fenders. More than 500 people were in attendance. “Frankly, it’s a no-brainer,” says Dave […]

June 4, 2012

Bergstrom launches ‘Just Right with Nite’ vacation giveaway

Bergstrom Inc. and Webasto Product North America recently announced that the Webasto Air Top 2000 ST auxiliary heater is available with Bergstrom’s family of battery-powered Nite no-idle systems through Bergstrom’s aftermarket distributors and truck dealers in the United States and Canada. To promote the partnership, Bergstrom is giving away a destination vacation for one Nite […]

June 4, 2012

Rethinking trucking music

If you’re a trucker, you love country music. At least that’s what most of America thinks – you know, the folks who don’t drive 18-wheelers for a living, the people who’ve never stepped into a big-rig cab. Years of TV shows and Smokey-Bandit movies have left the impression that drivers don’t listen to any music […]

June 4, 2012

New orders accelerate in May, production slows

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in May for the 34th consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 36th consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business released Friday, June 1. Manufacturing continued its growth in May as the PMI registered 53.5 percent, a decrease […]

June 2, 2012

Ohio becomes 39th state to ban texting while driving

Ohio on Friday, June 1, became the 39th state to prohibit texting behind the wheel by all drivers after Gov. John Kasich signed a new law that prohibits text messaging while driving. “I commend Governor Kasich and the Ohio legislature for taking an important stand against the dangers of texting while driving today,” said U.S. […]

June 2, 2012

Beemac Trucking building public CNG fueling station

Beemac Trucking announced it was constructing the first compressed natural gas fueling station in Beaver County, Pa. Click to read more on this.

June 2, 2012

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Randall-Reilly announces 2012 Trucking’s Top Rookie Program

Last year, Randall-Reilly Recruiting Media pursued a Commercial Vehicle Training Association suggestion and launched a Trucking’s Top Rookie contest to increase pride and professionalism among new drivers, and promote the truck driving career choice during a severe shortage of drivers. Through its many trucking periodicals and industry partners like Progressive Insurance, the National Association of […]

June 2, 2012

HDA Truck Pride adds two new members

HDA Truck Pride has added Bradenton, Fla.-based Blue Truck Parts and Merced Truck and Trailer of Merced, Calif. “Blue Truck Parts has been in business for four years servicing their immediate market area with broad coverage for truck, trailer, bus, industrial and agricultural products,” says Don Reimondo, HDA Truck Pride chief executive officer. “Blue Truck […]

June 2, 2012

Cummins’ Zwicker elected to MERA board

Shawn Zwicker, general manager of ReCon Europe and Joint Ventures for Cummins Inc., has been elected as the newest member of the Motor & Equipment Remanufacturers Association board of directors. The MERA board now includes 16 leaders in the remanufacturing industry. Zwicker has more than 20 years of plant manufacturing experience with both original equipment […]

June 2, 2012

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CARB rips EPA's 'sloppy and amateurish' effort to repeal GHG regs

CARB charges that the EPA is ignoring decades of its own science to repeal greenhouse gas regulations, putting public health and the economy at risk.

Blue road sign showing electric vehicle charging station symbol near trees

Truck makers' challenge to Clean Truck pact a response to a bad deal

Red semi-trucks and passenger vehicles driving on a highway through green forested landscape

Clean Truck group asks truck and engine OEMs to drop lawsuit

Line of big rig semi trucks with loaded semi trailers standing on the at the weighing station with scales for weighing along the axes.

Group launches campaign against heavier truck limits

White semi-truck parked in front of stacked shipping containers in industrial yard

Multimodal group established to modernize freight movement

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