DuraClass has introduced an aluminum dump body to its line of Class 5-8 truck bodies. The corrosion-resistant aluminum design eliminates paint expense and increases body value at trade-in. Aluminum dump bodies can weigh over 30… Read More »DuraClass Introduces New Aluminum Dump Body
Updated: 1/6/2011 8:30:00 AM Steven Rubin, president of TRAC Intermodal, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Intermodal Association of North America. Rubin was most recently the association’s treasurer. He succeeds… Read More »IANA Elects New Chairman, Board
Tracer Products has unveiled the TP-9366 PRO-DigiScale, a durable, high-capacity refrigerant scale that can accommodate cylinders up to 220 lb. With the PRO-DigiScale, you can weigh and charge from the same platform. The PRO-DigiScale is… Read More »High-Capacity Refrigerant Scale
Updated: 1/4/2011 1:30:00 PM The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it will propose requiring speed limiters on heavy trucks at 68 mph after trucking groups asked for the regulation. NHTSA said Monday that it… Read More »NHTSA to Propose Truck Speed Limiters
U.S. Xpress co-chairs Max Fuller and Pat Quinn. “All That’s Trucking” blog by Deborah Lockridge, Editor It’s not often you see articles about the health of the trucking industry in your local paper, but I… Read More »Tennessee Paper Looks at Trucking in 2011
Updated: 12/30/2010 8:00:00 AM By Michele Fuetsch, Staff Reporter This story appears in the Dec. 20 27 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Fallout from the recession continued to dominate states’… Read More »Federal Funds Helped States Pay for Transportation Work in 2010
Updated: 12/29/2010 8:30:00 AM By Dan Leone, Staff Reporter This story appears in the Dec. 20 27 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Safety and compliance issues were in the spotlight… Read More »Tech Providers Set Focus on Safety, HOS Mandates
Three Tennessee men face at least three charges each of reckless endangerment in connection with a rash of objects thrown from I-75 overpasses. They were arrested late Wednesday, Dec. 29, and apparently confessed to throwing… Read More »Tennessee Trio Face Reckless Endangerment Charges for Throwing Objects from Overpasses.
Updated: 12/29/2010 9:00:00 AM Trucking Group Says Lower Court Ruling Flawed American Trucking Associations told a U.S. Appeals Court that a lower court misinterpreted several sections of federal law in an August ruling that backed… Read More »ATA Files Brief in Port of L.A. Case
Carriers who underpaid fuel taxes will have to pay less interest under a new amendment to the International Fuel Tax Agreement. In a 45 to 13 vote, the states and provinces that are members of… Read More »IFTA Adopts Interest Amendment
Updated: 12/29/2010 11:00:00 AM Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) has issued an executive order temporarily lifting hours-of-service rules for truck drivers to deal with severe weather in the state, television station KIMT reported. The order,… Read More »Minnesota Temporarily Waives HOS Rules
An announcement to consider speed limiting heavy trucks to 68 mph has small business truckers wondering why this unproven science is moving forward while minimum training standards for drivers are still not on the books.… Read More »OOIDA Wonders Why Speed Limiters Get the Green Light While Driver Training Standards Languish