The poor economy has idled many of the diesel vehicles initially targeted by those rules. CARB’s staff members have acknowledged that they previously overestimated how much pollution that construction equipment, buses and trucks emit into the air.
Read More →NASHVILLE, TN - Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC's Off-Road Tire division raised prices on its mining, construction, and industrial tires up to 4 percent on April 1.
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MINNEAPOLIS - Hauler Racks Inc., announces its new Universal Aluminum Econo Truck Rack, featuring bright dipped anodized aluminum construction and 800-lb. load capacity.
Read More →SEDONA, AZ - Green Fleet LLC introduces IdleOff, a renewable energy idle reduction device that reduces a fleet's carbon footprint, the need for fossil fuel, and saves significant money for any size fleet.
Read More →NASHVILLE, TN - Cummins Filtration Direct Air Flow technology has been honored as the Industry's Choice ancillary product as part of Construction Equipment's Top 100 Products of 2009.
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 →California Air Resources Board (CARB) inventory displays need to rethink new "retrofit" requirements as industry, economy combine to cut current and forecast emissions.
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 →The construction industry continues to suffer from significant declines in privately-funded construction investments, with new federal figures showing private construction investments declined by 20.6 percent between September 2008 and September 2009.
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Medium-duty truck sales have declined sharply, as have resale values, due to the recession and the slowdown in new construction. Many fleets are extending service lives, which threatens to increase future maintenance costs.
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