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Brian Kurtz Trucking Ltd., of Breslau, Ontario, and Bison Transport of Winnipeg, Manitoba are the grand prize winners of the Truckload Carriers Association National Fleet Safety Awards. View the full article -
At a press conference Tuesday, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), announced legislation to create an infrastructure bank that would help close America's widening infrastructure funding gap and create millions of American jobs in the next decade. View the full article
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The Professional Truck Driver Institute has awarded its 13th annual Lee J. Crittenden Memorial Award to Carl Spatocco View the full article
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Gary Salisbury, president and chief executive officer of Fikes Truck Line of Hope, Ark., has been elected as 2011-2012 chairman of the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA). View the full article
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Navistar, Inc. and the Women In Trucking Association presented the inaugural Influential Woman of the Year award to Rochelle Gorman, CEO of CalArk International, at a ceremony during this week's Truckload Carriers Association annual meeting. View the full article
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The Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, operator of three of the four Niagara River bridges between Western New York and Southern Ontario, introduced ExpressPass for trucks crossing the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge that will help reduce wait times for all motorists. View the full article
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Mansfield Oil Company has acquired California-based Gas Equipment Systems, Inc. GESI was founded by President & CEO Larry Ozier in 1998 and has supplied, constructed or maintained more than 150 compressed natural gas fueling stations in its thirteen year history. View the full article
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Scott Wicker, UPS's vice president of corporate plant engineering, has been named the company's first Chief Sustainability Officer. View the full article
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Trail King Industries, Inc., a manufacture of open deck and material hauling trailers, named Bruce Yakley as its new president. Yakley will succeed current Trail King president, Carol Lowe, who is returning to Carlisle Companies on April 1, 2011. View the full article
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Troubled less-than-truckload carrier YRC Worldwide, may face bankruptcy as Teamsters seek a higher interest rate on deferred pension obligations owed by the company. View the full article
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The U.S. plan to equip Mexican trucks with electronic recorders for driver logs would be a limited, temporary program undertaken because it's the only way the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration can ensure that the Mexican trucks will be monitored, said FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro. View the full article
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Trucking News: TCA Names 2011 Best Fleets to Drive For
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The Truckload Carriers Association and CarriersEdge announced the winners of the third annual Best Fleets to Drive For survey and contest. View the full article -
Asbury Automotive Group, one of the largest automotive retail and service companies in the U.S., has fully exited the heavy truck business with the sale of its truck franchises. View the full article
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Terra Environmental Technologies commissioned TerraCair Ultrapure diesel exhaust fluid production at the Woodward, Okla., nitrogen complex. View the full article
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Earlier this week, the National Council on Weights and Measures reported that as fuel prices at the pump rise, so do the number of complaints received by state weights and measures officials. Interestingly, the phenomenon seems to be limited to gasoline consumers - truckers are unaffected. View the full article
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The New York State Thruway Authority is implementing a new pavement striping program. The new pavement marking system, known as Recess Triple Drop, is more visible and durable in all lighting and weather conditions. View the full article
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The Truckload Carriers Association has adopted a new policy in favor of electronic logging and will support the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's proposed near-universal mandate for electronic onboard recorders (EOBRs) to track driver hours of service. "In essence, the statement is basically that we support the mandatory use of electronic logging devices," said TCA President Chris Burruss. View the full article
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Trucking News: Former Qualcomm Exec Joins Rand McNally
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Jim Rodi has joined Rand McNally as senior vice president of mobile communications. Rodi, who spent the past 11 years at Qualcomm, will be responsible for driving sales and business development for Rand McNally's TruckPC line of products. View the full article -
The price of diesel fuel rose for the 15th week in a row to an average of $3.908 nationwide, according to the Department of Energy, but at a less-steep rate than the double-digit gains of the past two weeks -- 3.8 cents higher than last week and 98.4 cents higher than a year ago. View the full article
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Berkshire Hathaway announced it's buying Lubrizol, which among other things makes additives for fuel and oil, for about $9.7 billion -- $135 per share in an all-cash transaction, one of the largest acquisitions in Berkshire Hathaway history. View the full article
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TSC Group LLC, which markets and distributes to retailers and travel centers, announced its plan to rebrand the combined company to TSC Global. View the full article
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FTR's Shippers Condition Index remained in low territory in February, meaning carriers are continuing to gain leverage over rates. FTR expects the index, which was at -5.2 in February, to fall further as the outlook for capacity shortages worsen in the seasonally strong spring months. View the full article
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A group of carriers that has been pushing mandatory electronic onboard recorders is crying foul when it comes to the Department of Transportation's plan to fund the devices on Mexican trucks that will be operating in the U.S. under long-delayed aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement. View the full article
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Cummins Inc. Chairman and CEO Tim Solso is one of 10 business leaders appointed by President Barack Obama to the President's Management Advisory Board. View the full article
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The Pete Store has opened a full-service Peterbilt truck dealership in Springfield, Va. View the full article
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