Jefferson County, Ala., home to Birmingham, is one of the areas the EPA projects will fail to meet the proposed standards. By Oliver B. Patton, Washington Editor The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed new standard for… Read More »New EPA Emission Proposal Seen Having Little Impact on Trucking
6/19/2012 12:30:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Bruce Harmon/Trans Pixs FedEx Corp. said Tuesday its fourth-quarter profit slipped to $550 million, or $1.73 per share, from $558 million, or… Read More »FedEx Reports Higher Adjusted 4Q Profit
By TruckingInfo Staff The court battle over the hours-of-service rule gets under way in July, according to a schedule posted last week by the appeals court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of… Read More »HOS Court Battle Starts Next Month
6/18/2012 1:30:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Bruce Harmon/Trans Pixs Volvo AB said Monday its May North American heavy truck deliveries rose 31% from a year ago. Deliveries of… Read More »Volvo's North American Deliveries Up 31% in May, as Mack's Sales Jump 80%
Proponents of the new crossing say the existing Ambassador Bridge will not be able to handle increased cross-border trade. An agreement has finally been reached on a $4 billion project to build a second bridge… Read More »Bridge Deal Reached for New Windsor-Detroit Border Crossing
6/15/2012 10:20:00 AM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Industrial production dipped 0.1% in May in the second decline in three months, the Federal Reserve said Friday. The downturn in activity… Read More »Industrial Production Declines in May
One trucking company had so much success with dual-fuel conversions it’s now selling them to other fleets. Engine Smarts by Tom Berg, Senior Editor A band wagon powered by natural gas seems to have begun… Read More »Dual-fuel conversion saves big money every day, supplier-trucker says
6/15/2012 10:30:00 AM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Michigan and Canada have agreed to build a second bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, Bloomberg reported Friday. The New International Trade… Read More »Michigan, Canada to Build New Detroit Bridge
All That’s Trucking blog by Deborah Lockridge, Editor in Chief You’re not a Jedi / This is not Tatooine, Luke / Pull over now, man. Several haikus like this one grabbed my attention on Twitter… Read More »Dust storms as poetry
6/18/2012 7:00:00 AM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This By Daniel Larson President and Chief Operating Officer Pacific Financial Association Inc. This Opinion piece appears in the June 18 print edition… Read More »Opinion: Higher Bonds Still Not the Answer
U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs 1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20590www.dot.gov/affairs/index.html DOT 66-12 Friday, June 15, 2012 Contact: Candice T. Burns Tel.: (202) 366-9999 FMCSA Announces No-Defect Driver-Vehicle Inspection Report… Read More »FMCSA Announces No-Defect Driver-Vehicle Inspection Report (DVIR) for Intermodal Equipment Final Rule
Nearly three-quarters of all night-shift report shortened sleep intervals. Photo by Jim Park. On the Road Blog by Jim Park, Equipment Editor Americans, it seems, are chronically sleep deprived. Perhaps not dramatically so, but we’re… Read More »One-third of American workers are sleep-deprived