Updated: 1/7/2011 9:30:00 AM Trucking Industry Jobs Show Improvement The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 9.4% in December, the lowest in a year and a half, the Labor Department said Friday. Payrolls rose by 103,000,… Read More »Unemployment Rate Drops to 9.4%
DOT 01-11 Thursday, January 6, 2011 U.S. Cross-Border Trucking Effort Emphasizes Safety and Efficiency U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today shared with Congress and the government of Mexico an initial concept document for a long… Read More »U.S. Cross-Border Trucking Effort Emphasizes Safety, Efficiency and Job Growth
DuraClass has introduced an aluminum dump body to its line of Class 5-8 truck bodies. The corrosion-resistant aluminum design eliminates paint expense and increases body value at trade-in. Aluminum dump bodies can weigh over 30… Read More »DuraClass Introduces New Aluminum Dump Body
Updated: 1/6/2011 8:30:00 AM Steven Rubin, president of TRAC Intermodal, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Intermodal Association of North America. Rubin was most recently the association’s treasurer. He succeeds… Read More »IANA Elects New Chairman, Board
Tracer Products has unveiled the TP-9366 PRO-DigiScale, a durable, high-capacity refrigerant scale that can accommodate cylinders up to 220 lb. With the PRO-DigiScale, you can weigh and charge from the same platform. The PRO-DigiScale is… Read More »High-Capacity Refrigerant Scale
Updated: 1/4/2011 1:30:00 PM The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it will propose requiring speed limiters on heavy trucks at 68 mph after trucking groups asked for the regulation. NHTSA said Monday that it… Read More »NHTSA to Propose Truck Speed Limiters
U.S. Xpress co-chairs Max Fuller and Pat Quinn. “All That’s Trucking” blog by Deborah Lockridge, Editor It’s not often you see articles about the health of the trucking industry in your local paper, but I… Read More »Tennessee Paper Looks at Trucking in 2011
Updated: 12/30/2010 8:00:00 AM By Michele Fuetsch, Staff Reporter This story appears in the Dec. 20 27 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Fallout from the recession continued to dominate states’… Read More »Federal Funds Helped States Pay for Transportation Work in 2010
Updated: 12/29/2010 8:30:00 AM By Dan Leone, Staff Reporter This story appears in the Dec. 20 27 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Safety and compliance issues were in the spotlight… Read More »Tech Providers Set Focus on Safety, HOS Mandates
Three Tennessee men face at least three charges each of reckless endangerment in connection with a rash of objects thrown from I-75 overpasses. They were arrested late Wednesday, Dec. 29, and apparently confessed to throwing… Read More »Tennessee Trio Face Reckless Endangerment Charges for Throwing Objects from Overpasses.
Updated: 12/29/2010 9:00:00 AM Trucking Group Says Lower Court Ruling Flawed American Trucking Associations told a U.S. Appeals Court that a lower court misinterpreted several sections of federal law in an August ruling that backed… Read More »ATA Files Brief in Port of L.A. Case
Carriers who underpaid fuel taxes will have to pay less interest under a new amendment to the International Fuel Tax Agreement. In a 45 to 13 vote, the states and provinces that are members of… Read More »IFTA Adopts Interest Amendment