TransCore’s North American Freight Index showed a 14 percent decline in spot market truckload freight volume for the month of April compared to March, but a 12 percent increase compared to April 2010. Freight volumes… Read More »TransCore's North American Freight Index Dips in April Due to Extreme Weather
Updated: 5/17/2011 8:40:00 AM Decline Is Biggest in a Year; Gas Dips a Half-Cent to $3.96 Diesel’s national average price fell 4.3 cents to $4.061 a gallon, its third decline in four weeks and the… Read More »Diesel Fuel Price Drops 4.3¢ to $4.061 a Gallon
NAFA will use its board members as ambassadors to the fleet management community. When Douglas Weichman became NAFA’s 32nd president during the Association’s Annual Business Meeting last month, he introduced NAFA’s Board of Trustees as… Read More »NAFA's Board Of Trustees Aims To Elevate Status Of The Association
Updated: 5/13/2011 4:30:00 PM Intermodal traffic volume rose 9% in the first quarter, the fifth straight year-over-year increase, the Intermodal Association of North America said Friday. International container volume rose 9.6% in the quarter to… Read More »Intermodal Volume Rises 9% in First Quarter
A MaxxForce 15 engine awaits a driver at Navistar’s Heavy Duty Boot Camp, held in Tooele, Utah, near Salt Lake City. By Jim Park, Equipment Editor Navistar dealers from across the U.S. and Canada have… Read More »Navistar Hosts Heavy-Duty Boot Camp for Dealers, Sales Reps
Updated: 5/12/2011 9:00:00 AM Initial jobless claims fell 44,000 to 434,000 for the week ended Saturday, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Economists had forecast the rate to rise to 430,000, Bloomberg reported. The four-week moving… Read More »Initial Jobless Claims Fall 44,000
By Oliver B. Patton, Washington Editor The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is considering using its CSA data correction system to gather information about a carrier’s accountability in the event of an accident. The agency’s… Read More »FMCSA Considering Using DataQ's to Transmit Crash Accountability Information
Updated: 5/12/2011 10:00:00 AM Business inventories rose 1% in March, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The increase followed a revised 0.7% gain in February that was more than initially estimated. The increase was above economists’… Read More »Business Inventories Rise 1%
Dave Kraft Commentary by Dave Kraft, Director, Business Development, Qualcomm Enterprise Services Part of the fun of technology is getting a new vocabulary of acronyms. The latest for automated driver logs is ELDs – or… Read More »ELDs and EOBRs
Updated: 5/12/2011 10:10:00 AM Prices paid to U.S. producers rose 0.8% in April, the Labor Department said Thursday. The April increase of prices paid to factories, farmers and other producers follows increases of 0.7% in… Read More »Producer Price Index Rises 0.8% in April
Fewer than 44 percent of fleets maintain their vehicles using software designed for that specific purpose, and one in three still uses paper and pencil or nothing at all, according to a survey by a… Read More »Fewer than Half of Fleets Use Fleet-Specific Software for Maintenance
Updated: 5/6/2011 8:00:00 AM By Ernie BetancourtPresident QuikQ LLC This Opinion piece appears in the May 2 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Traditionally, fuel has been second only to drivers… Read More »Opinion: Fuel's Many Costs