As more state legislatures across the U.S. enact laws that ban phoning and texting while driving, a new Highway Loss Data Institute study has found no reductions in crashes after hand-held phone bans take effect.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - The American Trucking Associations (ATA) joined petroleum refiners and other end-users in a legal challenge to California's recently enacted low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS).
Read More →ST. LOUIS, MO - To better manage its fleet of trucks, St. Louis-based Schnuck Markets Inc. has hired Xata Corp., Minneapolis. Xata aims to help customers improve fleets by cutting costs and ensuring compliance with trucking regulations.
Read More →Auditing fuel purchase invoices takes time and access to industry pricing data, but such scrutiny can avoid overcharges and duplicate transactions.
Read More →FARMINGTON HILLS, MI - The National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA), an association for the work truck industry, announced the launch of the new Market Data and Industry Statistics section of www.NTEA.com.
Read More →ST. LOUIS - Schnucks will use XATANET's fleet operations software platform and services for real-time communications and for monitoring the performance of its 85-vehicle fleet of trucks.
Read More →JASPER, IN - Remanufacturing is a "greener" alternative to manufacturing vehicles. Compared to data from the U.S. Department of Energy, Jasper's remanufacture of a drivetrain component averaged only 1 percent of the energy consumed of manufacturing the entire vehicle
Read More →WASHINGTON - Investment in highway construction and repair will create jobs and spur economic recovery, officials from the American Trucking Associations (ATA) told President Barack Obama at last week's National Jobs Summit.
Read More →Two Texas-based companies - Reynolds Asphalt & Construction and TexOp Construction - have agreed to test the 2011 Ford Super Duty for six months, and will feed performance data back to Ford engineers for further analysis.
Read More →WASHINGTON - Truck tonnage declined less than one-half-percent in October, the last month for which tonnage numbers were available.
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