UPDATED: 12/29/2011 10:50:00 AM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This An index of manufacturing activity in the Chicago area dipped in December but showed continued expansion, the Institute for Supply Management-Chicago… Read More »Chicago Manufacturing Index Slips
UPDATED: 12/29/2011 3:10:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Supporters of a national network of natural gas fueling stations for motor carriers have invested an additional $150 million in the… Read More »Clean Energy Adds Another $150 Million for Natural Gas Fuel Stations
UPDATED: 12/29/2011 3:20:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Tom Biery/Trans Pixs U.S. intermodal traffic jumped 22.9% for the week ended Saturday from a year ago, the Association of American… Read More »Intermodal Traffic Jumps 22.9% for Week
UPDATED: 12/30/2011 2:00:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Transport Topics Online will be closed Monday for the New Year’s holiday. Please check back on Tuesday, Jan. 3, for the… Read More »TTNews.com Closed for New Year's Holiday
There will be no news posted on Truckinginfo.com Friday, Dec. 30, or Monday, Jan. 2, due to the New Year’s holiday. Printer Friendly Version Email This Story RSS Events: Related News 12/30/2011 – Happy New Year! There… Read More »Happy New Year!
UPDATED: 12/29/2011 3:00:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Jamie Rector/Bloomberg News Oil rose slightly Thursday but held under under $100 a barrel, down from more than $101 earlier in… Read More »Oil Holds Below $100 a Barrel
First NaturaLine units will be for use in temperature-controlled sea containers. Later, the CO2 concept might be used in trailer reefers. Tom Berg, Senior Editor The way that environmentalists bad-mouth carbon dioxide, it should be… Read More »Forget the evils of CO2. It's actually an environmentally safe refrigerant, Carrier says
UPDATED: 12/28/2011 12:00:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Following last week’s announcement, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has published its final hours-of-service rule in the Federal Register. Announced… Read More »FMCSA Publishes Final HOS Rule in Federal Register
A Wayne State University study published in the January 2012 issue of the journal Epidemiology points out that two influential early studies of cellphone use and crash risk may have overestimated the relative risk of… Read More »Study: Early Cellphone Safety Studies Likely Overestimated Crash Risk
UPDATED: 12/27/2011 3:00:00 PM Write a Letter to the Editor Tweet Print This Larry Smith/Trans Pixs Oil rose to more than $101 a barrel Tuesday mornning after taking its biggest gain in two months… Read More »Oil Climbs Over $101 a Barrel
U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs 1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20590www.dot.gov/briefing-room.html FMCSA 38-11 Tuesday, December 27, 2011 Contact: Shashunga Clayton Tel: 202-366-9999 Double Happyness Travel, Inc., Declared an Imminent Hazard… Read More »Double Happyness Travel, Inc., Declared an Imminent Hazard and Ordered to Immediately Cease All Operations
By Tom Berg, Senior Editor They’ve pretty much taken over the vehicle lighting business, and they don’t cost nearly as much as when they first appeared about 20 years ago. So LEDs – lamps made… Read More »Trailer Report: Preventing LED Theft