Stemco’s datalogger shows fleets fuel-saving potential of TrailerTails
LONGVIEW, Texas — Stemco has developed a datalogger that fleets can use to measure the fuel-saving performance of TrailerTails within just four hours. The palm-sized device plugs into the truck’s J1939 diagnostic port to access engine data. A Stemco field…
Meritor extends hours for emergency and unit down orders
FLORENCE, Ky. — Meritor announced today that it is extending emergency and unit-down ordering hours for its Florence, Kentucky and Brampton, Ontario, distribution centres. Going forward, daily hours for ground freight orders will be extended to 4:30 p.m. EST. “This…
AMTA announces dates for driver appreciation day BBQs
EDMONTON, Alta. — The Alberta Motor Transport Association (AMTA) announced the dates for its annual summer-long salute to truck drivers today. The BBQ dates are launched in conjunction with National Trucking Week and salutes the men and women who keep…
DOE Funds Algae Biofuel Research
The U.S. Department of Energy has allocated $18 million in funding to six projects in an effort to reduce the modeled price of algae-based biofuels to less than $5 per CGE by 2019 and $3 per CGE by 2030. Algal biomass can be converted to advanced biofu…
Thermo King Offers Low-Emissions Reefers
Thermo King announced that it will begin to offer North American customers new trailer and truck refrigeration units with lower global warming potential , pending approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Significant New Alternatives…
Truck Driver Pleads Not Guilty in Cold Case Murder
A trucker was tied to a 2004 murder after a woman he gave a ride to in Mission Viejo jumped from his cab into oncoming traffic, police say. A man who was linked through DNA evidence to the 2004 rape and murder of a woman in South Los Angeles after bein…
Chino Valley police arrest DUI truck driver
“Officers tried to stop the truck, but followed with their lights and siren on for almost two miles before the truck pulled over and stopped on Highway 89 at the north end of Chino Valley,” police Lt. Vincent Schaan said.
Recap: We Learned A Little Something Crazy About Chaz
More pictures emerged of the naked dude in West Haven–and it prompted a little debate between Chaz & AJ. Chaz thinks he is in “excellent” shape, while AJ thinks he looks like a piece of bad chicken.
Hit-and-run trucker who killed 95-year-old driver while over the…
Hit-and-run trucker who killed 95-year-old driver while over the limit was caught after his number plate fell off at scene of the crash Darren Kettley admitted drink driving, failing to stop at the scene in connection with the fatal crash which left 95…
Man bites nose off trucker in row
Carrara, July 15 – A 53-year-old crane operator allegedly bit off part of a 48-year-old truck driver’s nose on Wednesday during an argument over the loading of a block of marble in Massa Carrara, a province known worldwide for its marble quarries. Poli…