ArvinMeritor Changes Name to Meritor
ArvinMeritor has officially changed its name to Meritor. Meritor’s ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange is now MTOR.
NTSB Chairman Hits the Road with Professional Truck Drivers
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman departed Wednesday on a two-day, four-state journey from Washington, D.C. to Louisville, Ky., to get a cab’s-eye view of the commercial truck industry.
Demography 101
So what is a demographer, anyway? As Ken Gronbach’s daughter put it, it’s like an economist, only instead of counting financial indicators, he counts people.
Navistar Demonstrates International ProStar+ Liquefied Natural Gas Truck
LOUISVILLE, KY – At this week’s Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Navistar demonstrated a prototype 2011 International ProStar+ powered by a 13-liter MaxxForce dual fuel engine — diesel and liquefied natural gas.
Daimler Exec: Production Ramp-up Won’t Meet Demand
LOUISVILLE, KY – Noting that “Everyone wants me to be the fortune teller here at the show,” Daimler Trucks North America President and CEO Martin Daum predicted U.S. Class 8 sales of 153,000 for 2011, lower than we’re hearing from other OEs. The rea…
New Chief Engineers Named at Timken
The Timken Company has promoted Matthew R. Eckels to chief engineer, application engineering, and Steven A. Roman to chief engineer, product engineering.
CVSA: Cutting Funding Will Weaken Commercial Vehicle Enforcement
As Congress looks for ways to cut the federal budget and deficit, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance warned a Congressional committee that funding commercial motor vehicle safety programs at lower than current levels would weaken state enforceme…
Goodyear Names Washington Truck Driver Highway Hero
The 28th annual Goodyear North America Highway Hero is an Olympia, Wash., truck driver who helped save the lives of two people in a car that had come to a stop on railroad tracks, including pulling the unconscious driver from his car before it was s…
Government Reports Record-Setting Decline in GHG Emissions
The U.S. Energy Information Administration this week reported a record-setting 5.8-percent decline in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2009. Since 1990, U.S. GHG emissions have grown at an average annual rate of 0.4 percent.
Con-way Expects Full E-log Implementation by June
Con-way Truckload announced that 71 percent of its 3,000-driver fleet is using electronic logs (e-logs), with full integration of the technology expected in June 2011. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is expected to make the adoption …