Hissong Kenworth recently celebrated its 50th anniversary during its annual open house and customer appreciation day at its flagship store and corporate headquarters in Richfield, Ohio. Fifty years ago Robert “Bob” Hissong and Don Fritz… Read More »Hissong Kenworth Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Updated: 7/15/2011 11:30:00 AM Bridge Demolition Planned for on Major Trucking Route By Suzanne Winchell, Special to Transport Topics This story appears in the June 27 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe… Read More »I-405 Closure This Weekend to Disrupt Traffic on Key Los Angeles Freeway
The Los Angeles region is bracing for a 53-hour shutdown of Interstate 405 in mid-July that will cut off a critical, high-traffic trucking route. City officials announced the mid-July closure more than a month ahead… Read More »I-405 Closure This Weekend to Disrupt Traffic with 'Carmageddon'
Updated: 7/14/2011 11:30:00 AM Bridge Demolition Planned for on Major Trucking Route By Suzanne Winchell, Special to Transport Topics This story appears in the June 27 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe… Read More »I-405 Closure Next Weekend to Disrupt Traffic on Key Los Angeles Freeway
“All That’s Trucking” by Deborah Lockridge, Editor in Chief, Evan Lockridge, Contributing Editor When people ask me about trucking, I often tell them it’s not like “Smokey and the Bandit.” But if you read this… Read More »Speed, fuel economy and pay
Updated: 7/8/2011 10:10:00 AM Wholesale inventories rose 1.8% in May, led by the biggest jump in automobile inventories in five years, the Commerce Department said Friday. Sales slipped 0.2%, the first downturn in three months,… Read More »Wholesale Inventories Rise 1.8%
U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs 1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20590www.dot.gov/affairs/index.html FMCSA 26-11 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Contact: Duane DeBruyne Tel.: (202) 366-9999 FMCSA Announces Redesigned “Protect Your Move” Web… Read More »FMCSA Announces Redesigned "Protect Your Move" Website
Tom Solso, Cummins chairman and chief executive officer since 2000, is retiring and will be succeeded by President and Chief Operating Officer Tom Linebarger. Linebarger, 48, has been with Cummins 17 years, and was formerly… Read More »Tim Solso to Retire as Cummins Chairman and CEO
Updated: 7/8/2011 10:20:00 AM Dupré Logistics LLC said it has added dedicated cryogenic transportation to its service offerings. The Lafayette, La., trucking company said the service is geared to the industrial gas segments of the… Read More »Dupré Logistics Offers Cryogenic Transport
Thanks in part to efforts by the Women in Trucking Association, two online dialogues will be held focusing on recruitment of women for blue-collar transportation jobs. WIT helped organize the inaugural roundtable for women working… Read More »Women in Trucking Helps Create Forums to Recruit Women in Transportation Careers
Updated: 7/8/2011 12:15:00 PM Echo Global Logistics said Thursday it has acquired Phoenix truckload brokerage firm Advantage Transport for an undisclosed sum. Advantage Transport’s owners, Joe Larson and Matt Steckner, are staying on as regional… Read More »Echo Global Logistics Buys Advantage Transport
Last year’s national truck driving championships. “All That’s Trucking” blog by Deborah Lockridge, Editor in Chief What a great idea to help educate the public about trucking: Get reporters behind the wheel of a big… Read More »A reporter gets taste of driving a big rig