Updated: 11/8/2010 4:30:00 PM Old Dominion Freight Line said Monday it will boost its less-than-truckload rates by about 4.9%, beginning Nov. 15. The change “involves a restructure that provides for increases in our rates based… Read More »Old Dominion Boosting Rates 4.9%

Dear Friends of Our Firm, The Small Business Jobs and Act of 2010, signed by President Obama on Sept. 27, 2010, includes a bevy of tax breaks for small business owners. Here are the highlights… Read More »Tax Break in small business law

Schneider says its efforts over the years have led to fuel savings of almost 49 million gallons a year. By Oliver B. Patton, Washington Editor Schneider National has been tending its fuel economy garden for… Read More »Going Green: For Schneider National, Fuel Efficiency's Old Hat

An HWC rig can carry up to 54,000 pounds of building supplies, thanks to the 8,000-pound tare weight of Fontaine Revolution flatbeds. The company began as a private carrier, and is now a for-hire fleet… Read More »Trailer Report: Lightweight Flatbeds Allow Heavy Payloads, Help Fleet Grow

By Glen Sokolis, Sokolis Group Your company has worked hard to get the right fleet fuel program in place. You have picked the right fleet fuel card provider, and you may have negotiated and set… Read More »Bad Fleet Fuel Auditing

U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs 1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20590www.dot.gov/affairs/index.html FMCSA 17-10 Friday, November 5, 2010 Contact: Candice Tolliver Tel: 202-366-9999 or 202-366-2309 FMCSA Places Two Commercial Bus Companies… Read More »FMCSA Places Two Commercial Bus Companies Out-of-Service for Violating Federal Safety Regulations

Crescent Crown’s fuel savings with diesel-electric hybrids are even better than projected, once they got them broken in, on the right routes and got drivers trained By Deborah Lockridge, Editor Crescent Crown Distributing is one… Read More »Going Green: Crescent Crown Tests Hybrids, Other Sustainable Technologies

U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs 1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20590www.dot.gov/affairs/index.html FMCSA 15-10 Thursday, November 4, 2010 Contact: Candice Tolliver Tel: 202-366-9999 or 202-366-2309 FMCSA Orders JBS Carriers to Install… Read More »FMCSA Orders JBS Carriers to Install Electronic On-Board Recorders on its Entire Fleet of Commercial Trucks for Violating Hours-of-Service and Other Federal Safety Regulations

By Tom Berg, Senior Editor Knowing that Mack and Volvo are sister companies, it would be easy to dismiss Mack’s new mDrive as an I-Shift with a dog’s name. Like Volvo’s automated mechanical gearbox, Mack’s… Read More »Test Drive: Mack's mDrive Programmed for Bulldog Shifting

ABF Freight System filed legal actions against the Teamsters and several YRC Worldwide subsidiaries for violation of the National Master Freight Agreement after YRC and the union announced their latest round of concessions. The National… Read More »ABF Challenges YRC/Teamsters Deal

Stormchaser Tim Samaras will be at this week’s SEMA show. Viewers of the Discovery Channel’s “Stormchasers” program may not give much thought to the truck equipment that helps these daring tornado researchers do their job,… Read More »Aftermarket Truck Equipment Counts in Gathering Groundbreaking Tornado Data

 Updated: 10/21/2010 10:10:00 AM An index of leading economic indicators rose 0.3% in September, the third consecutive increase, the New York-based Conference Board said Thursday. Economists had forecast a 0.3% gain, following the 0.1% revised… Read More »Leading Indicators Rise for Third Month