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Landstar System is teaming up with Episcopal High School in its headquarters city of Jacksonville, Fla., in support of a relief drive for victims of the tornados that ripped through the South in April. View the full article -
C.R. England Dedicated, a division of C.R. England, has signed full-service lease agreement with PacLease on five new Kenworth T800 tractors powered with the Westport GX 15 liter LNG engine. View the full article
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The American Trucking Associations honored Mike Wickham, the former president and CEO of Roadway Corp/n and the founding chairman of the American Transportation Research Institute, with the S. Earl Dove Highways Award View the full article
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The Truckload Carriers Association's Safety & Security Division presented its 2011 Safety Professional of the Year Award to Don Lacy, director of safety for Prime Inc., Springfield, Mo. View the full article
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TransCore's North American Freight Index showed a 14 percent decline in spot market truckload freight volume for the month of April compared to March, but a 12 percent increase compared to April 2010. View the full article
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A. Duie Pyle, a Northeast transportation and logistics provider, announces the appointment of Dan Carrano to the newly created position of director of CSA compliance. View the full article
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Joplin 44 Petro at I-44 & Exit 4 in Joplin, Missouri will celebrate the opening of its new Super Truck Showroom and completely remodeled truckstop this Friday and Saturday, May 20-21. View the full article
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Goodyear's fleetHQ dealers now offer photos of a replaced tire during a road service call as an added service to its fleetHQ solutions portfolio. View the full article
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With 15 months of experience since the EPA 2010 emission standard took effect, diesel exhaust fluid supplier Air1 sees the market for its product developing as expected. In the first year after the standard, the North American market for DEF was about 14 million gallons - most of it distributed in small containers sold off the shelf, said Chad Dombroski, director of Air1, which supplies DEF produced by Yara North America. View the full article
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Diesel prices dropped for the second week in a row, down 4.3 cents nationally to $4.061 per gallon, as crude oil prices fell to a two-month low Monday. View the full article
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A California jury last week handed down a $1.5 million verdict against CRST Expedited after a 24-day trial where a former driver trainee alleged the company allowed her driver trainer to sexually harass her. View the full article
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NAFA will use its board members as ambassadors to the fleet management community. View the full article
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Volvo Trucks named its top North American Parts Dealer of 2010, Westfall Odell Truck Sales of Kansas City, Mo. View the full article
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Intermodal volume increased 9.6 percent year-over-year in the first quarter as international volume grew for the fifth-straight quarter, according to a report released May 12 by the Intermodal Association of North America. View the full article
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Transplace announced the winners of key performance awards within its Carrier Merit Program. View the full article
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Amidst endless chatter about electric power and even fuel cells, the good old internal combustion engine clearly isn't going away any time soon. View the full article
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Old Dominion Freight Line relocated its St. Louis service center to a 25-acre site on 2880 Elm Point Industrial Drive in St. Charles, Mo. View the full article
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FTR Associates' Shippers' Condition Index as reported in the firm's May Shippers Update fell significantly to a reading of -11.4, reflecting tightening capacity and accelerating transport costs. View the full article
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Trucking News: ELDs and EOBRs - What's the Difference?
BMT Forum Bot posted a topic in Trucking News
Part of the fun of technology is getting a new vocabulary of acronyms. The latest for automated driver logs is ELDs - or electronic logging devices. According to some reports, ELDs are not only better than Electronic On-board Recorders (EOBRs), but they cost less. That's progress! View the full article -
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is considering using its CSA data correction system to gather information about a carrier's accountability in the event of an accident. The agency's DataQ's system, which carriers use now to correct mistakes that have gotten into their CSA scores, could be used by carriers to provide a police accident report that shows accountability, said senior transportation specialist Bryan Price at a forum hosted by the National Transportation Safety Board this week. View the full article
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Navistar dealers from across the U.S. and Canada have been gathering at the Miller Motorsports Park near Salt Lake City. They are here for close look at the latest product offerings from Navistar -- and its competitors. View the full article
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An investigation by the General Accountability Office has raised serious concerns about the ability of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program to safeguard the nation's ports. View the full article
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced a text message-based emergency alert system for enabled mobile devices. View the full article
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YRC Worldwide announced several sustainability initiatives, including low-viscosity engine oil, trailer skirts, and optimizing its network. View the full article
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Sen. John Rockefeller is taking the Obama administration to task over its plan to restart long-distance trucking across the Mexican border. In a letter yesterday to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, the West Virginia Democrat said the administration's pilot program will endanger U.S. companies' competitiveness. View the full article
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