Updated: 4/14/2011 1:00:00 PM J.B. Hunt Transport Services reported record income for its first quarter, as its trucking, intermodal and dedicated contract services segments all improved. Net income rose to $50.1 million, or 40 cents… Read More »J.B. Hunt Reports Record 1Q Income

A. Duie Pyle, a Northeast transportation and logistics provider, is reducing its impact on the environment as the company’s largest warehouse facility churns out solar energy at full capacity. Pyle’s megawatt solar installation is now… Read More »A. Duie Pyle Goes Solar

 Updated: 4/12/2011 2:20:00 PM Truck traffic crossing the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, slipped 1.4% in March from a year ago, the company that runs the bridge said Tuesday. Truck trips totaled 242,765… Read More »Ambassador Bridge Truck Traffic Crossings Slip 1.4% in March

By TruckingInfo Staff The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is asking for additional comments on whether its proposed mandate for electronic onboard recorders sets up the possibility of driver harassment. The agency believes its proposal… Read More »FMCSA Seeks Comments on EOBRs and Driver Harassment

 Updated: 4/12/2011 1:50:00 PM ATA Praises Safety Efforts of Trucking Industry The rate of highway fatalities from accidents involving large trucks fell 14.1% to the lowest level on record, according to an American Trucking Associations analysis… Read More »Truck-Involved Highway Fatality Rate Falls to Record Low

U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs 1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20590www.dot.gov/affairs/index.html FMCSA 09-11 Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Contact:Candice Tolliver Tel.:(202) 366-9999 U.S. DOT Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and State… Read More »U.S. DOT Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and State Law Enforcement Agencies Conduct Thousands of
Surprise Passenger Carrier Safety Inspections Nationwide

R/S Godwin’s HybriDump uses an aluminum tailgate and sides with a Hardox steel floor. Should it be the ComposiDump? “Trailer Talk” blog by Tom Berg, Senior Editor Since the advent of fuel-saving hybrid-drive cars and… Read More »'Hybrid' replacing 'composite' in the trailer and body business

 Updated: 4/8/2011 4:30:00 AM FMCSA, FHWA Programs to Remain in Place, DOT Says Federal funding for highway projects and motor carrier safety programs will continue if the federal government shuts down after Friday, the Department… Read More »Government Shutdown Would Not Affect Federal Transportation Safey Programs

Jerry Kissinger and his 1991 Mack SuperLiner with a million-mile engine. “All That’s Trucking” blog by Deborah Lockridge, Editor in Chief How much is a million? A children’s book says it would take 23 days… Read More »Got a Million-Mile Engine?

 Updated: 4/8/2011 10:15:00 AM Wholesale inventories rose in February while sales fell for the first time in eight months, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The 1% increase matched January’s gain, which originally had been reported… Read More »Wholesale Inventories Rise 1%; Sales Fall

U.S. Foodservice has bought a company that will provide a supply of B20 biodiesel made from used vegetable oil from fryers. The foodservice distributor bought WVO Industries of Bluffton, S.C. WVO collects and removes water,… Read More »U.S. Foodservice Acquires Waste Vegetable Oil Processing Company for Fuel

 Updated: 4/8/2011 10:45:00 AM Oil prices continued to spike Friday, pushing past $111 a barrel in early New York Mercantile Exchange trading, on continued concerns over Libya’s civil conflict, Bloomberg reported. Crude futures rose to… Read More »Oil Keeps Rising, Tops $111 a Barrel