On-Highway Diesel Prices Continue Rise After Brief Fall
U.S. on-highway diesel prices are up 2.5 cents from last week, and up 99.3 cents from last year, according to the Department of Energy. The rise to a $3.932 national average follows a slight decline last week that broke a 15-week streak of steady pr…
Green Truck Association Names Officers
The Green Truck Association, an affiliate division of the National Truck Equipment Association, elected new officers of the board of directors during the annual Board meeting held in Indianapolis, Indiana, March 8, 2011.
Gordon Trucking Adds 2,000 Freight Wing Aeroflex Side Skirts
Gordon Trucking is set to begin installing 2,000 additional side skirt sets on its trailers that will join the 2,200 plus trailers already using the skirts in the GTI fleet.
Arsenault: Don’t Over-Buy on Parts
Many maintenance shops buy more parts than necessary, in effect storing company cash on parts room shelves.
Pike forecasts annual global plug-in vehicle sales to exceed 1M units by 2015
Pike Research forecasts that global sales volumes of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) (plug-in hybrid electric and battery-electric vehicles) will cross the 1 million unit threshold for the first time by 2015. Pike notes that total PEV penetration will…
Volvo Trucks to begin selling hybrid heavy-duty trucks
As part of the Volvo Group’s focus on hybrid vehicles, Volvo Trucks is now commencing sales of hybrid heavy-duty trucks (earlier post), under the name Volvo FE Hybrid, to customers in selected European markets. The hybrid trucks permit fuel savings o…
Dynamotive and IFP Energies Nouvelles extend MOU for upgrading bio-oils to mobile fuels
Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation and IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) have extended their Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the field of pyrolysis oil upgrading with the aim to produce second generation biofuels, announced in June 2010 (ea…
US NSF and UK BBSRC award $10.3M+ to four teams to improve biological photosynthesis
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have collaborated in awarding funding to scientists in the US and UK totaling more than $10.3 million to improve the process of biologica…
Union Pacific Steam Engine To Stop In Coffeyville, Kansas This Spring
A Union Pacific steam locomotive based in Cheyenne will make a big tour through the Midwest starting in May.
Seats Inc. Next Generation Heritage Series Truck Seats
Seats Inc. is rolling out the Next Generation Heritage Series truck seats, which will debut at the Mid-America Truck Show in Louisville, Ky., this week.