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Trailer Talk blog by Tom Berg, Senior Editor During a stroll through the trailer areas at last week’s Louisville truck show, I turned a corner and encountered a chemical tanker. Its rear access cover was… Read More »What's inside that tanker? A polyurethane coating

3/30/2012 1:00:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This   Tom Biery/Trans Pixs President Obama on Friday signed a 90-day extension of federal transportation funding that was passed by the House and… Read More »Obama Signs 90-Day Highway Bill Extension Following Congressional Passage

U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs 1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20590www.dot.gov/affairs/index.html FMCSA 04-12 Friday, March 30, 2012 Contact: Shashunga Clayton Tel.: (202) 366-9999 U.S. Department of Transportation Orders Reliable Transportation… Read More »U.S. Department of Transportation Orders Reliable Transportation Services, Inc. to Shut Down

Systems such as Thermo King’s TracKing can alert fleets to temperature problems eve if the driver doesn’t. By Tom Berg, Senior Editor Automatically watching the perishable load as it goes down the road or the… Read More »Remote Temp Monitoring

3/29/2012 12:00:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This   Port Logistics Group and Coastal Logistics Group on Thursday announced a partnership that extends the geographic reach and service offerings for both… Read More »Port Logistics Firms Announce Partnership

By Tom Berg, Senior Editor Talk about transmissions in commercial trucks, and you’ll talk a lot about Eaton. The Michigan-based manufacturer continues to dominate the business in Class 8 and remains strong in Classes 6… Read More »Automated Mechanical Transmissions Gaining Steadily in Class 8 Trucks

3/28/2012 3:30:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This   Tim Rue/Bloomberg News Oil fell for the first time in four days Wednesday following a Department of Energy report that showed crude… Read More »Oil Slips as Feds Consider Tapping SPR

Cummins’ ISX 12 G All That’s Trucking blog by Deborah Lockridge, Editor in Chief Nearly every press conference and presentation at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., last week seemed to mention natural gas.… Read More »Trends from Mid-America: Natural gas

3/27/2012 3:15:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This   Surface trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico rose 11.5% in January from a year ago, the Department of Transportation said… Read More »NAFTA Surface Trade Rises 11.5% in January

By Tom Berg, Senior Editor A few years ago, Steph Sabo looked at the latest truck diesels and didn’t like what he saw. The maintenance manager at Norrenberns Truck Service in southern Illinois thought prices… Read More »Refurbishing Works for This Fleet

3/26/2012 11:10:00 AM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This   The House could vote as soon as Monday night on a highway bill extension, which would avert a shutdown on transportation funding… Read More »House May Vote on Highway Bill Monday Night