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NewsDecember 26, 2007

Trucks Will Continue to Move Most Freight, Said ATA

ALEXANDRIA, VA – Trucking will boost its share of the United States' freight pool into the next decade.

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NewsDecember 21, 2007

Firm Uses GPS to Help Truckers Prevent Rollovers

The PowerVue computer uses a stream of data from GPS satellites to determine whether a truck is traveling too fast to turn safely.

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NewsDecember 13, 2007

FMCSA Keeps 11-Hour Trucker Driving Limit

Since the regulation was implemented in 2003, the percentage of large trucks involved in fatigue-related fatal crashes in the eleventh hour of driving has remained below the average of the 1991-2002 yearly rates.

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NewsDecember 5, 2007

SUVs' Surprising Residual Sales Spike

Large SUV residual values jumped to 48.6 percent of their original sale price this year, compared with less than 46 percent last year, according to Black Book data. That's about the same resale value as midsize cars and compact SUVs.

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NewsNovember 29, 2007

Volvo to Offer In-Car HD Radio

The digital High-Definition (HD) Radio system offers a higher-quality AM/FM radio system that features more channel choices, crisp sound and new data services.

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NewsNovember 29, 2007

Safety Belt-Use Drops Fatality Rate 70%

A recent study by Farmer's Insurance also found that rear-end collisions are less deadly than T-bone collisions and larger vehicles provided better protection than a smaller-sized car in a crash.

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NewsNovember 28, 2007

NAVTEQ Expands NAVTEQ Transport for the Trucking and Logistics Industries

CHICAGO – NAVTEQ has announced an expanded version of NAVTEQ Transport with new coverage, new data types, and a harmonized global specification to enhance the functionality of truck routing and logistics planning applications.

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NewsOctober 24, 2007

Alternative to GPS Simplifies Construction Management

SHELTON, CT – OEM Data Delivery (OEM DD), a manufacturer of jobsite data management systems, has introduced a wireless, hands-free way to capture individual machine locations.

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NewsOctober 10, 2007

McLeod Software Introduces LoadMaster/Comdata Interface

BIRMINGHAM, AL – McLeod Software, a provider of dispatch and accounting fleet management software for the trucking industry, has released a new interface between its LoadMaster enterprise transportation management system and the Comdata MasterCard payment application.

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NewsOctober 3, 2007

ATA Reports 11 Percentage-Point Decline in Large Truckload Turnover

ARLINGTON, VA – The line-haul driver turnover rate among large for-hire truckload carriers (fleets with at least $30 million in annual revenue) experienced its first quarterly decrease in a year during the 2007 second quarter.

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