Emil Estafanous

U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs 1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20590www.dot.gov/affairs/index.html DOT 70-12 Friday, June 22, 2012 Contact: Candice T. Burns Tel.: (202) 366-9999 FMCSA Final Rule Helps Consumers Protect… Read More »FMCSA Final Rule Helps Consumers Protect Their Household Goods Move and Eliminates Unnecessary Burdens for Moving Companies

All That’s Trucking blog by Deborah Lockridge, Editor in Chief A Titan by Mack now greets visitors to the Levitt Pavilion at SteelStacks, an arts and cultural center and the former site of Bethlehem Steel… Read More »Talk about a food truck…

6/21/2012 2:00:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This   UPS Inc. UPS Inc. said its approximately $6.5 billion offer for Dutch package firm TNT Express will begin Friday and run through… Read More »UPS' $6.5 Billion Offer for TNT Begins Friday

Working together, Kentucky and Indiana will build a new I-65 bridge over the Ohio River, reconstruct the I-64/I-65/I-71 Kennedy Interchange and build a new SR-265 East End facility. The Federal Highway Administration yesterday announced decisions… Read More »Tolls to Be Part of Two Major Bridge Projects

6/20/2012 12:30:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This   Frank Polich/Bloomberg News Oil fell Wednesday after a Department of Energy report showed supplies rose to near a 22-year high, Bloomberg reported.… Read More »Oil Price Drops Following DOE Report on Supply Gain

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