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Don Youngblood, president and CEO of DYK Automotive, LLC, has announced that Gary Pointon will become president of the holding company's Superior Automotive division effective January 3, 2011. View the full article -
The Port of Seattle's Clean Truck program began on New Year's, prohibiting trucks built prior to the 1994 model year from entering the cargo terminals. View the full article
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It's not often you see articles about the health of the trucking industry in your local paper, but I suppose with big industry names like U.S. Xpress and Covenant Transport, Chattanooga might be expected to be an exception. View the full article
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ArvinMeritor, Inc. today announced that it has completed the sale of its Body Systems business to an affiliate of Inteva Products, LLC. View the full article
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is moving ahead on a rulemaking on speed limiters for heavy trucks, which had its start four years ago with petitions by two trucking interest groups. View the full article
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An announcement to consider speed limiting heavy trucks to 68 mph has small business truckers wondering why this unproven science is moving forward while minimum training standards for drivers are still not on the books. View the full article
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Carriers who underpaid fuel taxes will have to pay less interest under a new amendment to the International Fuel Tax Agreement. View the full article
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Three Tennessee men face at least three charges each of reckless endangerment in connection with a rash of objects thrown from I-75 overpasses. They were arrested late Wednesday, Dec. 29, and apparently confessed to throwing the objects off the overpasses. View the full article
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The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced increases to NYC area tunnel and bridge tolls. The increases took effect on Dec. 30. View the full article
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Pilot Flying J is launching Frequent Fueler Advantage on Jan. 3, calling the new loyalty program nation's largest for professional drivers and RV customers. View the full article
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The Meijer Supercenter chain has donated 35 reconditioned semi-tractors valued at $500,000 to local food banks, academic organizations and law enforcement agencies throughout the Midwest. View the full article
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The good news about diesel fuel prices is they are only $3.294 per gallon, according to the Department of Energy's weekly report. Prices could be $4.854, like they were the summer of 2008. The bad news about diesel fuel prices is they are at the highest they've been all year. View the full article
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Early reaction to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's proposed changes in the hours of service rule indicates that the rule is likely to remain in litigation. It is not clear what the proposed changes will do for safety. The agency says they will make trucking safer. The safety advocacy community says they do not go nearly far enough. The trucking industry says they go too far. View the full article
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TravelCenters of America has confirmed it will soon begin installing on-island Diesel Exhaust Fluid dispensers. TA expects to install about fifty on-island DEF pumps at locations across the country in 2011. View the full article
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Mullen Group Ltd. announced today a number of transactions that will expand its fluid handling and hauling capabilities in northern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia. View the full article
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Changes to government spending rules recently proposed by The House Republican Conference has a coalition of highway uses and road-building groups up in arms over the possibility that highway funding could be treated as any other spending proposal. View the full article
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Chris Dietemann has been named general manager of Quality Trailer Products' leaf-spring manufacturing operation in Seagoville, Texas. View the full article
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Drivers or employees? Earlier this month, a federal judge ruled in favor of FedEx in a number of lawsuits that alleged the company improperly classified delivery drivers as independent contractors. View the full article
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Smith Electric Vehicles announced the purchase of two all-electric Smith Newton trucks by the United States Marine Corps, the first military organization to order Smith Newtons off the Government Services Administration (GSA) schedule. View the full article
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Reaction to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration latest HOS proposal isn't exactly inspiring. View the full article
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Data collected during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's fall Operation Safe Driver campaign showed car drivers show an alarming propensity for speeding around big trucks. View the full article
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Ryder System, Inc. recognizes the heroic efforts of employee, Jim Phillips, whose fast thinking, brave actions and calm, tactical response helped rescue a grandmother and her granddaughter from being swept away by floodwaters. View the full article
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For all the fretting and hand-wringing, and for the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on listening sessions and research and fact finding, what we got from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Dec. 23 is a farce disguised as a proposed hours of service rule. View the full article
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Oil has stayed above the 90-dollar mark since Wednesday, and settled at $91 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after a 51-cents drop from Friday. View the full article
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Trucking News: NY Judge Blocks Diesel-retrofit Mandate
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A New York Supreme Court judge recently blocked a Department of Environmental Conservation mandate requiring the owners of heavy-duty diesel vehicles to retrofit their fleets with costly new equipment. View the full article
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