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Dayton Freight relocates Kentucky service center

Dayton Freight Lines, Inc. has relocated its service center in Bowling Green, Ky. The facility features new office space and 19 dock doors and triples the less-than-truckload company’s dock space in Bowling Green. “This added door capacity in Bowling Green ensures our ability to continue providing the high level of service our customers expect and […]

April 9, 2012

Heavy-duty aftermarket up nearly 30% since 2009

MacKay & Co. has reported that since the trough of the heavy-duty aftermarket in December 2009, U.S. heavy-duty parts sales have increased by 29.4 percent. The news was reported by MacKay & Company to subscribers of its Aftermarket Index program. According to MacKay, sales to both original equipment service programs and the independent heavy-duty aftermarket […]

April 9, 2012

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Tacoma’s intermodal volumes continue strong

The Port of Tacoma announced that intermodal volumes increased for the fourth consecutive month, up 16 percent in February. Meanwhile, container volumes dipped 4 percent, reflecting a predicted decline in international containers in February as Chinese factories closed for the Lunar New Year holiday.

April 9, 2012

Love’s Travel Stops past the halfway point with bulk DEF rollout

Love’s Travel Stops announced that it now is offering bulk diesel exhaust fluid at more than half of its travel stop locations across the country. The company says it is on track to have bulk DEF available at all travel stops by the end of the year. Today, 124 of Love’s 230 locations now offer […]

April 9, 2012

GAAS 2012 offering discount for multiple attendees from same company

Recognizing the opportunity for companies to bring multiple members of their aftermarket leadership team to the Global Automotive Aftermarket Symposium, event organizers announced a special discounted membership fee for this year’s event. After a company pays full price for three members of their company to attend GAAS 2012, the fourth member and any other subsequent […]

April 9, 2012

Roush CleanTech celebrating propane’s centennial anniversary

To honor the upcoming 100th birthday of the propane industry, Roush CleanTech is joining the festivities at the Propane Centennial Celebration and Propane Clean Air Rally & Autogas Parade in Atlanta. These events kick off at the 2012 National Propane Gas Association Southeastern Convention & International Propane Expo April 14 at the Georgia World Congress […]

April 9, 2012

Caterpillar opens new parts distribution center in Mexico

Caterpillar Logistics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., announced the addition of a new parts distribution center in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The 500,000-square-foot facility will employ up to 150 people and is expected to be operational mid-2013. The company says this investment represents the first of many aimed at enhancing parts distribution […]

April 9, 2012

Mudguard granted patent for V-Flap mudflap

Mudguard Technologies announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a utility patent for its V-Flap, an aerodynamic mudflap designed to be in unision with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Smartway program. Mudguard says the multifunctional eco-friendly truck mudflap features aerodynamics designed to help save fuel, hydrodynamics to suppress spray and splash and […]

April 9, 2012

Telvent to provide real-time traffic data for highway tunnel

Telvent, a real-time IT solutions and information provider, announced that the company has been awarded a contract by the Transcity JV, with Brisbane City Council as the end customer, to implement the Intelligent Transportation System for Legacy Way in Australia. Legacy Way is a 4.6-km road tunnel that will connect Brisbane’s western and inner northern […]

April 9, 2012

Former Eaton chairman/CEO de Windt dies at 91

E. Mandell de Windt, Eaton Corp.’s chairman of the board and chief executive officer from 1969 to 1986, died on April 4. He was 91. De Windt was elected Eaton’s sixth chairman and CEO in 1969. His retirement in April 1986 culminated a 45-year association with the company. Only company founder Joseph Eaton was at […]

April 9, 2012

Meritor’s Burns named to Michigan Armed Forces Hospitality Center board

The Michigan Armed Forces Hospitality Center named Tim Burns, Meritor vice president of global defense, to its board of directors. Burns is the honorary chair for the upcoming Freedom Center Gala in May. “We are so pleased that Tim is joining the board,” says Ken Pratt, president of Michigan Armed Forces Hospitality Center. “His experience […]

April 9, 2012

JX Enterprises donates more than $25,000 to charities

Through employee generosity and corporate contributions, JX Enterprises recently announced more than $25,000 was donated to charities throughout 2011, including 15 local food banks during the holidays. Other organizations supported include the American Red Cross: Japan Earthquake, Pacific Tsunami Relief; Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer; and the Special Olympics and its World’s Largest Truck Convoy. […]

April 9, 2012

Third Mexican carrier OK’d for cross-border program

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has granted operating authority to a third Mexican carrier and has filed its final brief in ongoing litigation over its cross-border pilot program. As of April 5, Baja Express became the third carrier to receive authority and – like the second participant to receive authority, Moises Alvarez Perez – […]

April 7, 2012

NAFTA truck crossings up 1.7% in 2011

The number of commercial truck crossings into the United States from Canada and Mexico was 10.4 million in 2011, 1.7 percent more than in 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration. The 2011 increase follows a 9.4 percent rise in 2010 […]

April 7, 2012

Broker sentenced for defrauding carriers

A California broker who continued defrauding carriers after being indicted has been sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in prison. U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton of the state’s Eastern District delivered the sentence on March 28 to Kulwant Singh Gill and ordered him to pay $443,388 in restitution to his victims. The 53-year-old […]

April 7, 2012

FMCSA seeks UCR Plan board nominees

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is requesting nominations from the motor carrier Industry for the board of directors of the Unified Carrier Registration Plan. The agency will appoint five motor carrier industry members to the board for the UCR Plan, which is responsible for the administration of the UCR Agreement that governs the registration […]

April 7, 2012

Heartland Charters & Tours ordered to shut down

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Friday, April 6, announced that it has declared Heartland Charters & Tours and its principals an imminent hazard to public safety. The Oklahoma-based interstate passenger bus company was ordered to shut down its operations immediately. “Safety is our top priority,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. “We will […]

April 7, 2012

U.S. Postal Service honors UPS

The UPS Store franchise network has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service at the National Postal Forum for its participation in Every Door Direct Mail, which provides small businesses with a cost-effective way to send direct mail. Using Every Door Direct Mail, small business customers can work with their local The UPS Store center […]

April 7, 2012

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