Swift Transportation Revises Profit Expectations
Swift Transportation has lowered projections for profits for the final two quarters of the year and for the full year, due in large part to at least one accident, legal claims and expected lower freight volume. The Phoenix, Ariz.-based truckload carrie…
Used Class 8 Market Slips But Remains Strong
Used Class 8 volumes in August fell slightly from July but gained compared with last year’s numbers, according to the latest report from ACT Research. Sales remain strong and are in line with expectations, but prices have adjusted downward to compensat…
new Crash Investigators: Blown tire caused fatal Interstate 59/20 crash
The Jefferson County coroner says Charles Ward Miller of Ethelsville died in Thursday’s three-vehicle crash on Interstate 59/20. Miller was the driver of the 18-wheeler.
House Speaker Boehner to Step Down Next Month
Speaker of the House John Boehner will resign from Congress effective October 30, according to published news reports. He has wielded the speaker’s gavel for nearly five years.
Volvo breaks ground on new Customer Experience Center at Virginia plant
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Volvo Trucks North America announced today that it is adding several upgrades to its assembly plant in Dublin, Virginia and opening a new Customer Experience Center. The company has broken ground on the new centre recently. The…
Waste Management Launches Public CNG Station in N.J.
Waste Management and New Jersey Natural Gas have opened a public-access compressed natural gas fueling station at Waste Management’s facility in Toms River, N.J., the companies announced. The construction of the CNG fueling station in Toms River is par…
OTA to hold workshop on leadership
TORONTO, Ont. – The OTA is launching a new workshop called “Leaders Building Leaders” to assist up-and-coming managers and executives by hearing from successful executive in the business who made their way to the top of the trucking industry. The…
Port Metro Vancouver project gets ISI’s Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Platinum award
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Recently Port Metro Vancouver’s Low Level Road project received the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) Envision sustainable infrastructure rating system’s Platinum Award. It is the first transportation project to receive an ISI Envision-verified sustainable infrastructure rating system…
Proposed ‘Mattress Tag Rule’ Angers ATA’s Engineering VP
Ted Scott, vice president of engineering for the American Trucking Associations, had a succinct assessment of a recent federal regulatory proposal: “FMCSA has finally gone crazy.” The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a Notice of Propo…
Trucker coercion rule: More light than heat?
A new rule protecting U.S. truck drivers from dispatchers and others who encourage them to violate federal regulations to meet unrealistic delivery deadlines may be on the books as soon as next month, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin…