Article credit to Russ Ufberg There’s a line in a Merle Haggard song that goes, “It takes a special breed to be a truck drivin’ man.” I wanted to know what exactly that meant, so I ended up driving 2,668 miles with one to find out. There is a shortage of truck drivers in […]
Article credit to Tom Berg at TruckingInfo The former Bosch, Bendix and Studebaker proving grounds near New Carlisle in northern Indiana is open for business. Under new ownership- Navistar Inc., which took it over as of April 1. Navistar is taking over The company showed off the facility to industry reporters Tuesday with a multi-vehicle […]
Article credit to Denise Rondini at TruckingInfo.com CNG fuel system solution Rush Enterprises’ Momentum Fuel Technologies introduced us to, what it says is the industry’s first complete compressed natural gas. It is CNG fuel system solution for Class 6-8 trucks. “The industry is ready for a complete CNG fuel system solution,” said W.M. ‘Rusty’ Rush, […]
Article credits to DC Velocity For the second time in nine years, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) has asked the Department of Transportation to establish a rule requiring electronic speed limiters on all large trucks to be set no higher than 65 miles per hour. ATA, which represents the nation’s largest trucking companies, first petitioned […]
(Article credit to TruckinInfo.com, author Rolf Lockwood) Phase 2 of the fuel-efficiency/greenhouse gas regulations will soon be unveiled. Demanding even tougher, more stringent CO2 and fuel-consumption reductions of medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Engines and vehicles are tested separately in Phase 1, but there are those who urge that just one test. With engines rolled […]
Article credit to Evan Lockridge on TruckingInfo While some may complain that truck freight levels haven’t taken off like a rocket since the end of the Great Recession, the fact is they have posted solid improvements, according to Jonathan Starks of the freight forecasting firm FTR. Starks was speaking Tuesday during the company’s “Virtual […]
Ohio Lawmakers scrapped a proposal to raise highway speed limit to 75 mph that was opposed by the trucking industry, according to a report from Cleveland.com. The proposed speed limit increase was originally part of the state’s transportation budget, but when a committee of Ohio House and Senate members convened to finalize the details of […]
Article credit to Dry Bulk Industry American Trucking Associations and nearly 40 other trade groups and businesses have sent a letter calling on Congress to pass a long-term transportation bill while opposing any move toward devolution. That’s the notion voiced by some in Congress that federal funding for transportation programs should be eliminated and that […]
The American Trucking Association has announced their agenda for 2015 which predictably lists HOS fixes and highway funding at the top of their priorities, but they also have one goal that’s a bit of a surprise. They want a lower minimum driver age, dropping the age to 18 years old. Currently, the federally mandated […]
Article credits to Denise Rondini at TruckingInfo.com Everybody talks about the importance of properly operating brakes, but, unfortunately, the talk doesn’t always translate into action. Last fall’s Brake Safety Week inspections conducted by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance resulted in 2,162, or 16.2%, of the 13,305 commercial vehicles examined in the U.S., being placed out of […]
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