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National on-highway diesel prices were up again last week, rising 2.4 cents to a $3.923 average. Prices are now $1.024 more expensive than the same time last year. View the full article -
Total Transportation Services of Rancho Dominguez, Calif., plans to buy 100 zero-emission Tyrano hydrogen fuel cell-electric Class 8 heavy-duty trucks. View the full article
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed three bills supporting the development of natural gas initiatives in the state. View the full article
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American Trucking Associations announced its support of Mothers Against Drunk Driving's Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving View the full article
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TravelCenters of America, owner of Petro Stopping Centers, announced a driver celebration event to celebrate the grand opening of its Petro travel center at Exit 374 off I-35 in Carl's Corner, Texas. View the full article
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Tenex Capital Management completed its acquisition of LinkAmerica Corporation, a transportation and logistics provider headquartered in Tulsa, Okla. View the full article
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Like many commuters that drive to work, I sometimes fantasize of a futuristic car that drives itself from my parking space at home to the Heavy Duty Trucking office 25 miles away in suburban Chicago. View the full article
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Look for overnight single and double lane closures for the next three weeks on southbound I-95 in Maryland between MD 198 (exit 33) and MD 212 (exit 29) as part of the Intercounty Connector (ICC) project. View the full article
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U.S. Foodservice-Los Angeles this week activated a 1.15 megawatt, 4,998 photovoltaic solar panel system, one of the largest solar projects in Southern California. It is expected to provide 16 percent of U.S. Foodservice-Los Angeles' power needs annually. View the full article
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From where Davelene Huellinghoff sits, it makes no sense. She runs a small fleet out of Union, Mo., with a good safety record, yet her CSA crash indicator score jumped from 0% to 44% as a consequence of two accidents that were not the company's fault. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration intends to build a system that screens out no-fault crashes before they are entered into CSA scores, said senior transportation specialist Bryan Price. But it's not easily done, he said, so the agency is working on a near-term remedy. View the full article
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Led by its intermodal business, J.B. Hunt Transport Services reported record second quarter 2011 net earnings of $65.7 million, compared to second quarter 2010 net earnings of $52.1 million. View the full article
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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. View the full article
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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. View the full article
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TravelCenters of America presented a $30,000 check to The St. Christopher Truckers Development & Relief Fund. View the full article
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For the month of June, TransCore's North American Freight Index recorded the second-highest load volume this year and in its 15-year history. View the full article
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Betts Spring Company has expanded its alliance with Crane Plastics to include the exclusive distribution rights of Spraydown Aero Guard Systems to North American trailer manufacturers and aftermarket distributors. View the full article
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When people ask me about trucking, I often tell them it's not like "Smokey and the Bandit." But if you read this article in the Wall Street Journal, you'd think the average trucker wishes they were out there speeding down the highway and outwitting the bumbling sheriff. View the full article
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To many customers, reliability and durability are as important as pulling ability. They should look at an engine's "B" rating. View the full article
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Small-business truckers can often use some help, especially these days, with credit tight, fuel prices high, and a changing trucking landscape where the big guys are morphing from trucking companies into full-fledged transportation logistics providers. Even more so if you're a minority, one former trucker believes. View the full article
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Freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry fell 1.8% in May from April, falling for the second consecutive month, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics' Freight Transportation Services Index. View the full article
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The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index, issued by the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Ceridian Corporation, rose 1% in June on a seasonally and workday adjusted basis. View the full article
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While some near term concerns are being generated on the international scene and the U.S. political landscape, demand for commercial vehicles continues to be solid. View the full article
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The 32nd Annual Walcott Truckers Jamboree will begin today at Iowa 80 Truckstop, I-80 Exit 284, Walcott, Iowa. View the full article
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Waste Management added a 1,000th natural gas truck to its fleet, which it says makes it the largest owner and operator of clean-running, heavy-duty refuse trucks in North America. View the full article
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Tom Marty and Luc Ouellet took home the Top Service Technician Awards at the 2011 Navistar Service-Technician Rodeo. View the full article
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