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
6/14/2012 1:00:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Bruce Harmon/Trans Pixs U.S. intermodal traffic rose 3.8% for the week ended Saturday from a year ago, the Association of American Railroads… Read More »Intermodal Traffic Rises 3.8% for Week
FMCSA ruled that drivers do not have to submit a vehicle inspection report if the intermodal chassis has no defects. By TruckingInfo Staff The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has lightened the regulatory load for… Read More »FMCSA Lightens Paperwork Load for Intermodal Drivers
6/13/2012 12:30:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Heavy-duty U.S. truck sales climbed 36% in May to 18,012 from the same month of last year, continuing a stretch of 29… Read More »Heavy-Duty Truck Sales Rise 36% in May
Shannon Smith, aka “Sputter” All That’s Trucking blog by Deborah Lockridge, Editor in Chief “There are 3.5 million truckers in America, and only 200,000 of them are women, and only a fraction of them are… Read More »Oprah's magazine highlights woman trucker
6/12/2012 3:30:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This A federal court threw out a regulation Tuesday that allowed Navistar International Corp. to sell engines that do not comply with emissions… Read More »Court Rejects Shortcut Rule That Helped Navistar
Trailer Talk blog by Tom Berg, Senior Editor Cleanup crews needed more than knives and forks to clear a mess made by a semi that sideswiped a barrier on Interstate 71 and 75 in Fort… Read More »Semi splashes syrup onto Buttermilk Pike — really
6/11/2012 12:00:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Vehicle hauler Allied Systems Holdings said it is restructuring its finances after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday. Allied said deliveries… Read More »Allied Systems Holdings Files for Bankruptcy
Used Class 3-8 commercial vehicle registrations fell 26.7% from the same period last year, to 164,024 units, according to a recent Polk report. “While used vehicle registrations remain strong, the long-awaited decline in used commercial… Read More »Polk: First Quarter Used Commercial Vehicle Registrations Fall
6/8/2012 10:10:00 AM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Wholesale inventories rose 0.6% in April as sales increased, the Commerce Department said Friday. The inventories gain followed a 0.3% increase in… Read More »Wholesale Inventories Rise in April
The proposed plans include constructing more than 200 LNG fuel lanes at about 100 TA and Petro locations throughout the country. Shell and TravelCenters of America announced that starting in 2013, they plan to sell… Read More »Shell, TA Team up to Offer LNG
6/8/2012 10:20:00 AM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This The U.S. trade deficit shrank by 4.9% in April as a drop in imports more than offset the first exports decline in five months,… Read More »U.S. Trade Deficit Narrows in April