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NACCO Materials Handling Group, the makers of Yale and Hyster lift trucks, announced the addition of 401 workers for the company's Sulligent, Ala., Berea, Ky., Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, and Greenville, N.C., lift truck manufacturing facilities. View the full article -
Some fleets, when you ask them about what they're doing to be "green" or address sustainability, say they can't afford it. But at NFI Industries, "We say we cannot afford NOT to be green," says Rob Barron, senior vice president, general counsel, and leader of the company's Sustainability Team. View the full article
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Prime inc. recently honored drivers Herman Knight and Steve Rowan for achieving 3 million miles of safe driving. View the full article
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A lawsuit accusing Phoenix, Ariz.-based Swift Transportation Corp. of routinely shorting its drivers in pay will move forward as a class action after a long and circuitous route through the Arizona court system. View the full article
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Capacity of Texas received a $872,000 grant to develop a hydrogen fuel cell terminal truck. View the full article
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The Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau, a non-profit industry association dedicated to the recycling of tires through retreading and repairing, named a new managing director and elected new board officers. View the full article
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Ryder System appointed Sheryl Pattek as Vice President of Marketing for its Fleet Management Solutions (FMS) business segment. View the full article
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Import cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports is continuing to wind down as the year comes to an end but is nonetheless expected to be up 9 percent in November over the same month last year, View the full article
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Your company has worked hard to get the right fleet fuel program in place. You have picked the right fleet fuel card provider, and you may have negotiated and set up some fueling discounts with your fuel card provider, View the full article
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Five years ago, H. Wade Carden Jr. started HWC Transportation when his Philadelphia-area lumber business couldn't make economical shipments aboard heavy equipment then operated by for-hire carriers in the Northeast. View the full article
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Schneider National has been tending its fuel economy garden for more than 30 years and has long since picked the fruit within easy reach. View the full article
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Telogis has integrated Advanced Driver Assistance Systems data from Navteq into its Telogis GeoBase geospatial platform. View the full article
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Navistar International says it has built and shipped about 17,000 vehicles to U.S. and Canadian customers in the past quarter, more than 15,000 of them with EPA-compliant 2010 diesels. View the full article
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A pilot program in virginia will use undeveloped Virginia Department of Transportation properties as "truck safety rest areas" for truck parking. View the full article
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Intermodal volume increased 20.3 percent year-over-year in the third quarter, with international intermodal freight seeing a 28.1 percent upsurge, according to the Intermodal Association of North America. View the full article
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered JBS Carriers Inc. of Greeley, Colo., to install electronic on-board recorders on its entire fleet of more than 700 trucks by March 2011 or pay $81,780 in fines. View the full article
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Supreme Industries Inc., a manufacturer of specialized commercial vehicles, said its net sales for 2010's third quarter rose 26 percent View the full article
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The Volvo Group will be the world's first vehicle manufacturer to join the World Wide Fund for Nature's (WWF) Climate Savers Program. View the full article
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Crescent Crown Distributing is one of the five largest beer distributors in the country, delivering more than 26 million cases a year in Arizona and Louisiana. As a leader in the industry, company officials believe it's their job to take the lead in sustainability initiatives as well. View the full article
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I got an e-mail the other day from an owner-operator who was curious about why the government doesn't have to follow its own emissions rules when it comes to trucks owned by the military. View the full article
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Since April 2008, wholesale distributor J.T. Davenport & Sons has cut its idle time from 20-30 percent to 3 percent. View the full article
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Sometimes a marketing department's claim of "all-new" approaches the truth. That's the case with General Motors' Heavy Duty pickups and cab-chassis trucks, which were extensively upgraded and refined for the 2011 model year, even if GM doesn't call them all-new. View the full article
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Sometimes a marketing department's claim of "all-new" approaches the truth. That's the case with General Motors' Heavy Duty pickups and cab-chassis trucks, which were extensively upgraded and refined for the 2011 model year, even if GM doesn't call them all-new. View the full article
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Freight tonnage on all transportation modes is predicted to increase by 61 percent in the next 30 years, according to the Federal Highway Administration's new Freight Analysis Framework. View the full article
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Trucking News: FTR: Class 8 Net Orders Rose in October
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October Class 8 net orders were up 22 percent over September, according to preliminary figures from FTR Associates. View the full article
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