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The Truckload Carriers Association will host a "Protecting Carrier Interest in Shipper and Broker Bankruptcies" webinar on Jan. 22.View the full article

Volvo Trucks North America will award $25,000 each to two fleets with the best driving records in 2008 in its new Volvo Trucks Safety Award. The money is awarded to help fund additional safety activities at the winning fleets.View the full article

Mack Trucks recently delivered the first diesel-electric hybrid refuse truck to the U.S. Air Force Advanced Power Technology Office.View the full article

Air-Weigh, Eugene, Ore., is now certified by the International Organization for Standardization.View the full article

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Things must be slow around here, this is the third week in a row that I only made one turn. I went to Fremont, Oh. Monday and had to layover a night before I got a load back. Ended up loading 9 skidded coils in Hubbard, Oh. going to Orange, Va. After I unloaded in Orange yesterday I went to Petersburg and loaded for Roxana, Il. to deliver Monday. Loaded with H piling, going to a refinery. The rules they sent said drivers must be clean shaven, I guess in case you have to put a gas max on. I took it anyway. Got in some ice road trucking Tuesday night on the way from Monroeville to Hubbard. Freezing rain the whole way. Saw many cars in the ditch and in the median from just west of Lodi over to Akron. I just eased along and had no problem, but it was pretty amazing to watch cars spin out and go off the road. You could see it happening, but nobody seemed to slow down-one would go off the road, next car would come along like nothing happened, hit the brakes and do the same thing. On one hill about a mile or so west of Lodi on rt. 42 there was about 6 or 8 cars off the road in a stretch of maybe a quarter of a mile. I had to get over by the guardrail on the right to squeeze by one car that was crossways in the left lane, and had about half of the right lane blocked too. I was empty, even though being loaded doesn't help you a lot on ice, and I never spun once. Evidently they didn't realize it was slick and were just going too fast when they figured it out. My first clue came when the rain was freezing on the windshield from the time I left Monroeville about 5 o'clock that evening. By the time I got to Lodi the mirrors, hood, antennas, sun visor-everything I could see-had a thick coating of ice on it, so I suspected the road might be slick too. Nary a salt truck did I see until I got on I-76 at Lodi. Took a few pictures this week too, nothing very exciting though- the dog dancing with his donkey, tarping loads-like the song says,it's a dirty job-but someone's got to do it! Then your kyanite will be dry and your steel will still shine when you arrive at your destination. a sign on a trailer on rt. 422 near New Castle-I just like it! old digger machine on 422 near Kittaning, Pa. ice south of Altoona I'm also a master carpenter-I even have a hammer Attached thumbnail(s) // // // // // // // // View the full blog entry

Navistar will have an International 15-liter engine platform for 2010, it revealed in its Jan. 5 analysts conference call.View the full article

Eaton has signed an agreement to use Clean Diesel's patented Advanced Reagent Injector System (ARIS) technology for injection of hydrocarbon fuel in emissions reduction applications, including Eaton's Aftertreatment System.View the full article

Truck transportation revenues saw a 3.2 percent increase from 2006, reaching $229 billion in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2007 Service Annual SurveyView the full article

Teamster members who work at the freight companies of YRC Worldwide - Yellow, Roadway, Holland and New Penn - have agreed to modify the current labor agreements. View the full article

ArvinMeritor Thursday announced that instead of selling its Light Vehicle Business group as a whole unit, with today's economic realities it has decided to reorganize the business.View the full article

UPS announced that Myron Gray, head of regional operations in Canada and all of Latin America, will succeed Jim Winestock as the senior vice president of U.S. operations after Winestock's retirement in February.View the full article

Trade using surface transportation between the U.S. and NAFTA partners Canada and Mexico fell 2.1 percent in October 2008 from the previous year, reaching $72.7 billion.View the full article

Champion Laboratories, Albion, Ill, has promoted Shannon Sullivan to the position of director of sales - heavy duty, responsible for the sales of Luber-finer products to the heavy-duty aftermarket in the United States and Canada.View the full article

In their first "think piece" of the new year, the transportation analysts at Stifel, Nicolaus predicted increasing regulations that will constrain capacity increases as we come out of the economic downturn..View the full article

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration denied a request by a group of motor carriers asking that the agency declare that California's meal and rest break regulations are pre-empted by federal law because they're incompatible with hours of service regulations.View the full article

Alcoa announced a series of actions it's taking to deal with the current economic downturn, including cutting more than 13,500 jobs, more plant closures, plans to sell assets and cuts in production and capital expenditures.View the full article

Mack Trucks will again sponsor a Driving Skills Safety Challenge during the World of Concrete show in Las Vegas, Feb. 3-5.View the full article

More new product launches, "green" vehicles, exhibitors and educational sessions have been added to The Work Truck Show 2009 and 45th Annual National Truck Equipment Association Convention.View the full article

The Professional Truck Driver Institute has recertified the Idaho Center for Professional Truck Driving, in Nampa, Idaho, for five years.View the full article

Kenworth will extend its program with Landstar System that offers a $1,000 rebate on qualifiying purchases of new Kenworth sleeper trucks to independent contractors leased to Landstar.View the full article

The controversial Trans-Texas Corridor is dead, but officials say they will still develop transportation projects that "move Texas forward."View the full article

A proposed toll increase in Maryland would spare passenger cars an increase but would charge trucks and other multi-axle vehicles more.View the full article