Updated: 4/5/2011 10:10:00 AM The U.S. economy’s service sector declined in March but still showed expansion, the Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday. ISM’s monthly services index fell to a reading of 57.3, from 59.7… Read More »ISM Services Index Slips in March
By Oliver B. Patton, Washington Editor Two senators have restarted last year’s effort to pass a bill that would mandate electronic onboard recorders on most trucks. Sens. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., reintroduced… Read More »EOBR Mandate Reintroduced in Senate
Updated: 4/4/2011 10:00:00 AM The new 70-mile-per-hour speed limit on the Ohio Turnpike, which the state’s trucking industry opposes, has taken effect, the Associated Press reported. The state’s turnpike commission voted 4-1 in December to… Read More »Ohio Turnpike's 70-mph Speed Limit Takes Effect
By Truckinginfo Staff The 28th annual Goodyear North America Highway Hero is an Olympia, Wash. truck driver who helped save the lives of two people in a car moments before their vehicle, which was lodged… Read More »Goodyear Names Washington Truck Driver Highway Hero
Updated: 3/31/2011 11:30:00 AM American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves told a House of Representatives panel Thursday that policymakers need to ensure the trucking industry has access to affordable diesel. “There is no single solution… Read More »Graves Tells Congressional Panel Trucking Needs Affordable Diesel Fuel
The U.S. Energy Information Administration this week reported a record-setting 5.8-percent decline in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2009. Since 1990, U.S. GHG emissions have grown at an average annual rate of 0.4 percent. This… Read More »Government Reports Record-Setting Decline in GHG Emissions
Updated: 3/31/2011 2:45:00 PM LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Daimler Trucks raised its estimate for 2011 industrywide sales of Class 6-8 trucks in North America to a gain of 30% to 35% over last year, to 286,000 trucks,… Read More »Daimler Raises North America Truck Sales Estimate
Con-way Truckload announced that 71 percent of its 3,000-driver fleet is using electronic logs (e-logs), with full integration of the technology expected in June 2011. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is expected to make… Read More »Con-way Expects Full E-log Implementation by June
By Truckinginfo Staff Noting that international events have people thinking about energy safety and security, President Obama Wednesday called for slashing oil imports by one-third by 2025 as part of his administration’s Blueprint for A… Read More »President Calls for Cutting Oil Imports
Updated: 3/31/2011 2:00:00 PM Company Revises 2Q Guidance, Will Close Euro Axle Business Vehicle parts supplier ArvinMeritor Inc. said it has changed its name to Meritor Inc., and separately lowered its second-quarter earnings outlook and… Read More »ArvinMeritor Changes Name to Meritor Inc.
U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs 1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20590www.dot.gov/affairs/index.html FMCSA 08-11 Thursday, March 31, 2011 Contact: Candice Tolliver Tel: (202) 366-9999 or (202) 306-4580 FMCSA Declares Super Luxury… Read More »FMCSA Declares Super Luxury Tours, Inc. an Imminent Hazard to Public Safety and Orders the Bus Company to Immediately Cease All Operations
Cummins not only makes engines, it also makes aftertreatment and other components used on competing engines. “All That’s Trucking” blog by Deborah Lockridge, Editor in Chief Now that every truck maker has its own captive… Read More »How Cummins is beating vertical integration